Deadline: July 2025
Contact: Patricia Vieira
Email: pilmvieira@gmail.com

This volume addresses the various instantiations of monoculture today. In an era of environmental crises and climate change, often caused or exacerbated by monocultures, the aim of the book is to examine this phenomenon from a global perspective. Beyond their environmental consequences, it is crucial to understand the impact of single- species cultures on human and more-than-human societies. Authors are invited to analyze plant and animal monocultures, as well as the predominance of monocultures of the human mind (Vandana Shiva, Monocultures of the Mind) in a globalized world. Proposals exploring different ideological forms of monoculture, with practical repercussions on social behavior and with a clear environmental impact are welcome.

The volume brings together scholars from the natural, social, and human sciences for a reflection on monocultures through an ecocultural lens, exploring the connection between culture and nature beyond disciplinary or epistemological boundaries. Monocultures, as standardized and redundant semiotic areas that destroy (bio)diversity, are the opposite of the creative dynamics of natureculture. Chapters in the book will reflect upon our monocultural world and upon alternatives to biological and cultural uniformity.

The book welcomes articles on the following topics, among others:
• Vegetal monocultures and plant studies;
• Animal monocultures, slaughterhouses, and animal studies;
• Monocultures, deforestation, and extractivism;
• Indigenous peoples and monocultures;
• Monoculture history;
• Monocultures, colonialism, neocolonialism, and capitalism;
• Monocultures, Anthropocene and Plantationocene;
• Monocultures of the mind and biological monocultures;
• Literary, cinematographic, and artistic depictions of monoculture;
• Alternatives to monocultures.

Please submit your proposal for the book via email to the editors Martinho (martinhosoares@gmail.com) and Patricia (pilmvieira@gmail.com) by January 31, 2025 with: chapter title, chapter abstract (300 words), and a brief biographical note (200 words).

The editors will contact the authors regarding the approval or rejection of their texts by February 15, 2025.

Final chapters of up to 7000 words (including notes and bibliography) should be submitted by July 31, 2025.

Posted on November 5, 2024