Deadline: 30 September 2025
Contact: Mohamed Mliless
Email: m.mliless@edu.umi.ac.ma
Phone: 0700020070
Open Call for Chapters
FRAMING THE CLIMATE CRISIS
LANGUAGE, NARRATIVE, AND PEDAGOGY IN CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION
This edited volume examines how climate change is framed across languages, genres, and modalities, and how these framings shape understanding, emotion, policy, and action. We welcome empirically grounded and theoretical chapters from applied linguistics and adjacent fields (discourse studies, ecolinguistics, education, translation/interpretation, multimodality, corpus work, and critical media studies).
Indicative themes:
• Discourse analysis of climate change in curricula, textbooks, and policy documents; frames of urgency, hope, inevitability, and justice
• Metaphor, stance, and affect (including empathy as an analytic lens) in climate communication
• Translanguaging and cross-linguistic transfer in climate literacy; terminology and translation challenges
• Indigenous and local ecological knowledge in multilingual pedagogies
• Media and platform discourse (news, YouTube, influencer and tourism videos, PSAs, documentaries) and their classroom uptake
• Governance, law, and public communication: how legal/policy language frames risk, responsibility, and enforcement
• Multimodal/visual framing (images, maps, infographics, gameplay), including early-childhood representations and narrative drawing
• Global South perspectives and culturally grounded analyses
Submission details:
• Abstract: 300–400 words + 100-word bio
• Deadline: 30 September 2025
• Notification: 15 October 2025
• Full chapter: 15 February 2026 (6,000–8,000 words, APA 7)
• Double-blind review with editorial feedback; revised chapters due April 2026
• Publisher: an academic press (proposal in preparation; details to follow)
Please send abstracts and inquiries to m.mliless@edu.umi.ac.ma
(Mohamed Mliless, Independent Researcher, Ecolinguistics & Environmental Discourse).
We strongly encourage submissions engaging Global South contexts and multilingual data.
Posted on August 13, 2025
