Calls for Contributions

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/

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 ...