Calls for Contributions

CfP: Oceans Under Threat

Articles are invited for a special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888) on the theme “Oceans Under Threat: Overfishing.”

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) hybrid modelling integrating ecological, economic, social, and cultural factors; social sciences and humanities led critiques of environmental science and policy in fisheries management; the ethics of fishing and overfishing across the blue humanities, applied ethics, science and technology studies, and other fields; Indigenous fishing practices and communities; narrative, graphic design, and innovative approaches to ...

Journal of Ecohumanism invites contributors to the inaugural issue.

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2021

Journal of Ecohumanism aims to open up new possibilities in reconfiguring the multidimensional internship among humans and the more-than-human world by focusing on the structure, mechanics, functionalities, and representations of this internship manifested across ecohumanist and civil contexts. Since Environmental Humanities ample research has looked at variable aspects of ecological citizenship, we have to focus on globalization’s temporality in the rise of Citizen Humanities. In this sense, we are in the ...

Gothic Nature is seeking TV/ film reviews for issue four. The show or film (or video game or podcast) reviewed must have a clear thematic link to ecohorror/ecoGothic and have first appeared in 2021-22. (See some possibilities below). Reviews should aim for about 1,000 words in length (Harvard style and British spelling and punctuation conventions appreciated). Send inquiries and submissions to Sara L. Crosby at crosby.sara@gmail.com. For further information about the journal and formatting guidelines, please visit: https://gothicnaturejournal.com/.

Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2022

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Romanticism and Environmental Humanities

Abstracts are invited for a new special issue of Studies in Romanticism planned for Spring 2023, “Romanticism and Environmental Humanities,” guest edited by Noah Heringman (University of Missouri). Since the publication in this journal of a special issue on Green Romanticism (1996), edited by Jonathan Bate, scholars working at the intersection of Romanticism and environmental humanities have been increasingly influenced by the global scale of scholarship and activism in the areas of postcolonial studies, climate change, and environmental justice. One ...

Call for Papers (Edited Volume) Subject Fields: Environmental Studies; Art History & Visual Studies; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Indigenous Studies; New Materialism

UNCONTAINED TOXICITY: THE DIALECTICS OF LOSS AND CONTROL Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 30, 2021 Contact email: Gisela Heffes (gisela.heffes@rice.edu) & Arndt Niebisch (arndt.niebisch@univie.ac.at)

We welcome submissions for the edited volume “Uncontained Toxicity: The Dialectics of Loss and Control”

Book Description: Toxicity creates a double-bind. On the one hand, it poses the threat of contamination; its danger lies in its ability to cross borders in case of undesired ...

LITERARY DRUID

A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE VIRUDHUNAGAR – 1 TAMILNADU, INDIA LITERARY DRUID, Volume II, Special Issue II

SCOPE LITERARY DRUID has planned to open up for a special issue on the title “Life and Hope amidst Plagues, Epidemics and Pandemics in English Literature”. We expect high-quality papers from the writers of English literature. By the outset of Covid pandemic, the world has been suffering in hygenic and psychological concerns. But the world and humans vary from centuries back has seen many such devastating diseases. ...

The Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association is accepting submissions on a rolling basis for our weekly blog (https://sites.google.com/view/ecdnca/blog). We publish poetry, news commentary, short stories, reflections, reviews, announcements, and any other content related to communicating about/with the environment. We are especially interested in publishing diverse voices from both inside and outside of academia.

Journal of Ecohumanism invites contributors to the inaugural issue.

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2021

Journal of Ecohumanism aims to open up new possibilities in reconfiguring the multidimensional internship among humans and the more-than-human world by focusing on the structure, mechanics, functionalities, and representations of this internship manifested across ecohumanist and civil contexts. Since Environmental Humanities ample research has looked at variable aspects of ecological citizenship, we have to focus on globalization’s temporality in the rise of Citizen Humanities. In this sense, we are in the ...

2021 marks the 10th anniversary of Allison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret Savoy’s The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. The essays that Deming and Savoy collect in this important anthology all seek to expand traditional understandings of nature writing and environmental thought by reflecting on “how identity and place, human history and ‘natural’ history, power and silence, and social injustice and environmental degradation are fundamentally linked” (10). To help contribute to the critical conversation started by Deming, Savoy, and others, ...

Updated deadline: Myth and 21st C. Environmentalism. Literary and Artistic Practices for Saving the Planet

Call for contributions to edited volume

Myth and 21st C. Environmentalism. Literary and Artistic Practices for Saving the Planet

Myth and the environment have shared a rich common cultural history travelling as far back as the old times of storytelling and legend (Love 2003; O’Brian and White 2017, Schama 1996). From native American oral narrative where animals, humans and other beings interact, to Genesis in the Bible or the Darwinian theory of evolution, we ...