Calls for Contributions

As an understanding of reality that is defined and measured by human experience, humanism finds one of its cornerstones in the idea of a harmonious correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm—between man and universe—that has proven as ideologically idealistic as impossible to achieve. However, the specter of a “collapse of nature” and the awareness of the precariousness of human life on earth have always haunted our imagination. In Italian culture in particular, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period, several thinkers, writers, and ...

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book examining global portrayals of the coronavirus in diverse print, broadcast, and online media, including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, social media, television, podcasts, and popular culture.

A sampling of confirmed chapters follows: • “A Historical Handshake between the Mainstream Media and Social Media in Response to COVID-19 in Vietnam,” Dinh Thi Thuy Hang and Hien Thi Minh Nguyen, Academy of Journalism and Communication, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Administration, Vietnam • “Does Overnight Online ...

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book called Coronavirus, Climate Crisis, and Eco-anxiety: Psychology of Pandemics, Global Heating, and Planetary Hope. Chapter proposals should explore the psychological dimensions of the threats to human health and survival posed by pandemics such as the coronavirus, as well as by the accelerating global climate emergency. Chapters might address questions like • “How can individuals continue to work together at a time when prudent policies of social distancing may lead to a sense of isolation and loss ...

COVID-19 is an irrefutably global provocation that is currently reconfiguring nearly every aspect of life on Earth. The non-linear spread of the virus’ impact, which exceeds and differs from the rate of infection, has amplified and magnified already latent conditions of precarity, injustice, and inequality. It has been declared a pandemic, the etymology of which is pan + demos, meaning “all people,” but it is not affecting all people equally. These uncertain socio-political circumstances demand agile, dynamic, and multifaceted responses. In their recent ...

In response to coronavirus-caused disruptions, the journal Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry has extended the deadline for its Undergraduate Student Essay Contest until March 31.

We seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of journeys to places where there are no roads. The length limit is 3,000 words. There is no entry fee. Up to three essays will be chosen for publication in the June 2020 volume of Deep Wild Journal, and the authors will receive cash awards of $100 and ...

We invite submissions for a book compilation of fictional texts in Spanish on the topic of Ecofeminism under the provisional title of “Ecofeminist Fictions in Spanish/Ficciones ecofeministas en el contexto hispano.” This volume is open to any genre: poems, comics, vignettes, short stories, etc. For longer genres (novels, drama plays), a fragment will be selected for publication purposes.

Description Ecofeminism tries to explain and solve the current global ecological crisis through the interaction of Ecology and Feminism. The parallel exploitation of women and nature prompts ...

The editors of Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry invite students currently enrolled in undergraduate programs to submit essays for our 2020 Undergraduate Student Essay Writing Contest. We seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of journeys to places where there are no roads. The length limit is 3,000 words. There is no entry fee. Up to three essays will be chosen for publication in the June 2020 volume of Deep Wild Journal, and the authors will receive cash awards of ...

Tekoporá: Latin American Journal of Environmental Humanities and Territorial Studies welcomes abstracts for papers to be published in the July 2021 issue.

This 4th edition of Tekoporá seeks to gather work from the intersecting fields of ecocriticism and cultural studies that is specifically related to issues surrounding environment, landscape and territory. Articles must explore literary, cultural, visual and other texts that engage with environmental issues and are contextualized in South America.

We invite contributions premised on the environmental and/or post-human turn of literary and cultural ...

Editors:

Anita Harris Satkunananthan, PhD. Sanghamitra Dalal, PhD. Selena Middleton, PhD.

Introduction

This collection of essays is aimed at exploring the role and relevance of folklore, fairytale and the various contemporary revisionings of folklore and fairytale in the age of the Anthropocene, when the changes in the landscape and geology due to human activity has irrevocably changed the trajectory of our collective destinies. This necessitates a shift in the transmission and generation of folklores both diasporic and settled, hybrid and indigenous. In the chaos of shifting geopolitical considerations, ...

‘Stories about climate change don’t need to be about climate change’, writes theatre critic Robert Butler in an essay published in 2014:

Stories written before people knew about human-made climate change – Faust, Galileo, King Lear – may now resonate in ways that hadn’t been seen before. Even if climate change is not the subject matter, or the principal theme, its presence may still be detectable. It could be, in Ian McEwan’s evocative phrase, ‘the background hum’.

A ‘background hum’ might resonate for ...