Calls for Contributions

Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community welcomes participants from any university and any graduate program to join its Graduate Student Committee. Members will gain practical professional experience in digital media, editing, and publishing while exploring public scholarship in their own practice. Participants will gain skills that serve both academic and non-academic career paths. Deadline: May 16, 2025 https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/gsc/

Concept and Scope Inspired by the “three ecologies” framework developed in Adrian Ivakhiv’s Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013), The Life-Cycle of Moving Images articulates a holistic model for understanding moving images both within their multiple ecological contexts and across their entire “life-cycle.” It defines this life-cycle not only in material terms, as life-cycle analyses of objects have done in such fields as industrial ecology or science and technology studies, nor in exclusively cultural and representational terms, ...

Seeking chapters about ecocinema featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents. We still need the following high-priority chapters: “Climate Fiction as Trans Cinema,” “The Anthropocene and Trans Cinema,” “Ecology and Trans Cinema,” “Environment and Trans Cinema,” and “Nature and Trans Cinema.” Proposals are due April 17, 2025.

The Handbook of Trans Cinema builds on the same editor’s previous books exploring the intersections of ecocriticism and trans ...

The constellation of essays in this collection will focus on place-based literary works and address issues around resource extraction and ecological devastation. As the foremost cause of underdevelopment and ecological destruction in the Global South and many parts of North America, resource extraction, its resulting land loss and labor exploitation, is the occasion for this project. One of the aims of this collection is to expand “resource extraction” beyond the primary focus on extraction of fossil fuels, natural gas, and minerals and includes ...

To close gaps in a special issue with South Atlantic Quarterly, we are seeking abstracts for papers that can respond to the critical studies turn in scholarship.

Abstract

Responding to the undeniable reality of the Anthropocene, academic discourses have tried to contest and decenter the figure of the anthropos as the subject and root cause of our climate scene. Consequently, the environmental humanities have proposed several theoretical turns from the recasting of matter and relational ontologies to the current plant turn. It is within and ...

28th issue of Variations

“The balsam fir tree also remembers. If caterpillars or moose browse its needles, the nibbling assault lodges itself in the chemical makeup of the tree, in a manner analogous to the changes in a chickadee’s nerve cells after a near miss with a predator. The tree’s subsequent growth is more heavily defended by unpalatable resins, like a bird turned jumpy by its bad experience with a hawk. The fir also remembers air temperatures dating back nearly a year, a memory ...

Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies

At a time of escalating climate disasters, pandemics, global conflicts, and genocides, it is more urgent than ever to critically examine the (more-than-human) body as a politically charged and contested terrain. In this context, precarious lives across species are increasingly targeted for military, territorial, or economic exploitation while simultaneously rendered surplus, disposable, or commodified (Pugliese 2020; Youatt 2020). These dynamics lay bare the structural violence and inequalities embedded within power systems, ecological degradation, as well as interhuman ...

Article Collection “Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World”

Publisher: Routledge Open Research

Collection’s Advisors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki

The study of life-forms’ interplays has much to contribute to the survey of alternative post-anthropocentric narratives. This is no more pressing while the disastrous phenomena afflicted on Earth’s ecosystems continues to threaten all life-forms’ existence.

The Human & Beyond collection explores the concept of our “more-than-human world” (Abram, 1997). It offers a space for examining the interconnections within and beyond environmental studies as they pertain ...

Looking to widen the activist reach of your scholarship? Consider submitting to Deceleration (deceleration.news).

We are a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. We write at the intersection of environment and justice—journalistically, academically, and creatively—with emphasis on our home communities and bioregion (the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South, broadly). Deceleration is dedicated to cultivating radical imagination that goes to the roots of climate disturbance in historical systems of ...

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) “African American Environmental Narratives in the Anthropocene: Vulnerability, Resilience, Resistance” Edited by: Matthias Klestil & Claudia J. Ford

Submission Timeframe: If you would like to contribute a paper to this special issue, please send a 300-word abstract and short bio by 24 March 2025. Authors will be informed of acceptance of their abstract by mid-April 2025. Completed articles of 5000-6000 words including notes and bibliography for original, unpublished work that is ...