Teaching the Literature of Climate Change
Please consider submitting to this CFP for an MLA volume on Teaching the Literature of Climate Change.
https://www.mla.org/Publications/MLA-Book-Publications/Contribute-to-a-Book-in-Development/The-Literature-of-Climate-Change
Now that we are two decades into the twenty-first century, courses that thematize the literature of climate change have become more and more popular and more of an ethical imperative to teach. Students today need to understand the global environmental devastation they will inherit, and the literary imagination uniquely addresses such consequences as warming temperatures, desertification, sea-level rise, climate refugees, the spread of disease, and the collapse ...
Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Special Issue on Ecologies of the Atlantic Archipelago
Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Special Issue on Ecologies of the Atlantic Archipelago
May 2021 Issue
Guest Editors: Seán Hewitt & Anna Pilz
Studies of the intertwined histories of Great Britain, Ireland, and their associated islands have given rise to the notion of ‘archipelagic studies’. As in John Kerrigan’s seminal work Archipelagic English, the cover of which shows the familiar image of Great Britain and Ireland on a map tilted, reaching out from mainland Europe and into the Atlantic, this involves a new perspective on geography, identity, and the ...
The Bear Deluxe Magazine
Orlo is an organization dedicated to exploring place-based and environmental issues. Orlo is also far-reaching community of people—writers, artists, designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, readers, observers, experimenters—who are curious, critical and engaged with the people and places around them. Through The Bear Deluxe Magazine, readings, art shows, lectures and other events, Orlo supports a dynamic and diverse dialogue about how we relate to our environment. Orlo and The Bear Deluxe Magazine operate with a dedicated crew of volunteers and supporters.
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CFP: “Composing Climate Change”
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS: Composing Climate Change: Atmosphere, Affect, Attention GUEST EDITOR: Joshua Trey Barnett (barnettj@d.umn.edu)
How to write of that which escapes linguistic capture? How to form into words and images precisely what slips the shackles of representational thought? How to describe what cannot, strictly speaking, be perceived? How to change climates in and through the activity of composition? How to compose climate change?
In some significant sense, such questions have become perennial. Of climate change, writers ...
On the edge of the Anthropocene: crossing borders in southern African environmental history
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE: On the edge of the Anthropocene: crossing borders in southern African environmental history.
Environmental histories have long shaped the world of humans and other animals, and our shared and shifting environments. Our history is written on the landscapes – in ecosystems, climates and microclimates – and the past is borne by the creatures that inhabit them. They reflect overlapping histories of human mobility and settlement, accommodation and invasion, globalization and parochialism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Southern scholars still ...