Calls for Contributions

Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Ecospirituality in Asia: Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability

This edited volume draws upon the interconnected narratives of ecology and spirituality in Asia from the perspectives of care, conservation, and sustainability of the environment. The intersection between ecology and spirituality, which is exemplified through terms such as ecospirituality, ecological spirituality, and spiritual ecology—broadly conveys that ecology and spirituality are deeply connected and spiritual reverence to ecology or spiritualisation of ecology is a potential approach to ...

Latin American skies are at the crossroads of multiple cultural, scientific, historical, and political tensions. Technologies of astronomical observation continue to expand in the Atacama Desert. At the same time, new satellite swarms threaten the Chilean dark skies. For centuries, Indigenous peoples of the Americas have examined the skies diligently. Today, contemporary Latin Americans turn to their screens to consume multimedia content about cosmic mysteries and visions of extraterrestrial life. Crashes between birds and planes across the region have become more frequent as ...

Future Library (2014-2114, https://www.futurelibrary.no/), a public artwork conceived by Scottish artist Katie Paterson and supported by the City of Oslo, Norway, spans a century and comprises multiple sites. In a clearing in Nordmarka forest, 1000 spruce trees are growing to provide the paper for an archive of texts by authors chosen each year. Designated to remain unpublished and unread until 2114, they are housed in the “Silent Room” in Oslo’s Deichman Bjørvika, a meditative space with undulating walls created from trees removed from ...

The planned anthology is intended to provide an inspiring framework for an intensive examination of legal impulses and drafts in literature on the Anthropocene. Legal drafts, ideas, utopias and fantasies in climate fictions, theory and reality narratives (see below), in constitutive narratives (see below) or other literary and non-literary formats on the topic of the Anthropocene can be discussed. The results of the reflections will be compiled in an anthology.

Contextualization

According to Gabriele Dürbeck, the term Anthropocene refers to a new geological age in which ...

Co-guest editors: Shanna Lino (York University, Canada) and Maryanne L. Leone (Assumption University, USA)

This special issue explores the intersection of ecology and disability. Recognizing the materiality of both human and more-than-human bodies, we invite articles that consider the possibilities afforded by eco-crip theory to examine the marginalizing cultures of normalization, ableism, and speciesism and to positively value wide-ranging understandings, experiences, and contexts of embodied disability and environment.

Eco-crip literature, film, art, and criticism interrogate culturally situated power structures that appraise sentient and non-sentient beings/forms/entities ...

Now that the Anthropocene thesis has been thoroughly critiqued–by postcolonial, Indigenous, and Black studies–what becomes apparent in its wake? What issues, frameworks, or modes of reading did the Anthropocene obscure? What ideas are sprouting in the intellectual space it once held? We seek papers that think outside and beyond the Anthropocene, moving along other timescales or within other currents of environmental thought.

Rather than rehash critiques of the Anthropocene—which are thoroughly established —this special issue instead asks what comes into focus when scholars accept ...

Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies

Deadline extended to May 23, 2025!

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 ...

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/