Calls for Contributions

Although they are the most abundant life form on earth, plants have received scant attention from ecocritics until recently. As allies in the rethinking of human exceptionalism and the limits of human conceptions of nation, race, sexuality, disability, and invasion, plants challenge us to reimagine our philosophical and material relationship to the beings which enable each breath we take.

For this edited collection (working title: Plants Beyond Borders) we invite 4,000-6,000 word- contributions that take an interdisciplinary approach to reimagining and rethinking plants and/or ...

Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment provides a new home for cutting-edge scholarship in ecocriticism, broadly construed. Although the series’s impetus is rooted in awareness of contemporary environmental crisis, it welcomes scholars working within or across any period – from the medieval to the contemporary – who analyse the environmental literatures, media and cultures that inform the long history of environmental change. Likewise, the series is open to studies that bring in film, performance, visual art or digital media, alongside more traditional literary ...

“Environmental Apocalypse Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Exploration in Human Sciences” is the title we selected for an edited book. This ground breaking volume will enrich scholarly discussions surrounding the intersection of discourse and apocalypse vis-à-vis the ecological crisis.

The concept of the environmental apocalypse has gained significant attention in recent years, as the climate crisis becomes increasingly evident and alarming. We believe that apocalyptic environmental discourse is not confined to any single field of human activity, but it extends to various disciplines, including but not ...

Like many American authors who rose to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century, John Steinbeck came from an economically privileged Protestant family of European descent and grew up in a socially and religiously conservative environment. Like many of his contemporaries, he distanced himself from his upbringing in his fiction, rejecting the authority of government, of institutions, and of received cultural wisdom. He sided with the poor and dispossessed, he stood with the underdog, and he tried to give the downtrodden ...

OF CENTRE AND PERIPHERY: FIFTY YEARS OF CHIPKO Edited by MURALI SIVARAMAKRISHNAN

Action in the world is often steered by people who are in turn marshalled by environment or culture. However, echoes of certain local actions and movements serve to actuate several strands of awareness impacting larger issues in terms of political, social, environmental and spiritual dimensions of human existence. Taking off from a small village in Uttarakhand, where mainly women came to the forefront to take up issues of conservation the ideological expressions of ...

Proposals are invited for an edited collection of essays that explore the relationship between adaptation studies and the environment. The editors of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series have expressed interest in publishing this collection.

In his 2023 article, “Towards an Ecocritical Adaptation Studies,” Robert Geal argues persuasively that adaptation studies can “help address the fundamental ecocritical question—what is it about our culture(s) which cause(s) us to endanger our own survival by treating the biosphere with such contempt?—by outlining how human ...

See the full call here: https://unearthedesf.com/call-for-submissions-resurgence-restoration-and-renewal/

Unearthed Returns for Spring 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the revival of Unearthed. Like a field left fallow for a season to rest, the literary and art magazine published by the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, is now ready for a fresh new editorial team to breathe new life back into its pages. And we can’t wait for you to join us!

We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives to submit to our upcoming ...

Call online: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/0LNYE52731

Dear Colleagues, In her new book, Cannibal Capitalism (2023), Nancy Fraser connects the climate and ecological crises to a contemporary crisis of care. Both, she argues, are rooted in a voracious form of capitalism that consumes the resources upon which our lives depend. This Special Issue seeks to build on a wave of recent writing that explores care as a valuable concept for the environmental humanities. ‘What’, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa asks, ‘does caring mean when we go about thinking and ...

Edited Collection: Rotting Corpses: Ecocritical Approaches to Death and Decomposition

Editors: Sara Crosby, Carter Soles, and Ashley Kniss

In Julia Kristeva’s seminal work, The Powers of Horror, she describes decay as the “contamination of life by death” (149). She goes on to write that “a decaying body, lifeless, completely turned into dejection, blurred between the inanimate and inorganic, a transitional swarming, inseparable lining of a human nature whose life is indistinguishable from the symbolic—the corpse represents fundamental pollution” (109). Kristeva’s work has influenced countless treatments ...