Calls for Contributions

Article Collection “Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World”

Publisher: Routledge Open Research

Collection’s Advisors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki

The study of life-forms’ interplays has much to contribute to the survey of alternative post-anthropocentric narratives. This is no more pressing while the disastrous phenomena afflicted on Earth’s ecosystems continues to threaten all life-forms’ existence.

The Human & Beyond collection explores the concept of our “more-than-human world” (Abram, 1997). It offers a space for examining the interconnections within and beyond environmental studies as they pertain ...

Looking to widen the activist reach of your scholarship? Consider submitting to Deceleration (deceleration.news).

We are a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. We write at the intersection of environment and justice—journalistically, academically, and creatively—with emphasis on our home communities and bioregion (the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South, broadly). Deceleration is dedicated to cultivating radical imagination that goes to the roots of climate disturbance in historical systems of ...

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) “African American Environmental Narratives in the Anthropocene: Vulnerability, Resilience, Resistance” Edited by: Matthias Klestil & Claudia J. Ford

Submission Timeframe: If you would like to contribute a paper to this special issue, please send a 300-word abstract and short bio by 24 March 2025. Authors will be informed of acceptance of their abstract by mid-April 2025. Completed articles of 5000-6000 words including notes and bibliography for original, unpublished work that is ...

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2025

Editors: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon), Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

Contact Emails: mmadigar@uoregon.edu, jschell5@alaska.edu

For this edited collection, we invite proposals for essays that focus on and engage with petrogothic and petrohorror, emerging fields that examine the textual artifacts of hydrocarbon cultures through the lens of gothic and horror studies.

Petrogothic and petrohorror scholarship serves to address the anxiety, terror, and disquiet surrounding “petromodernity,” ...

OVERVIEW

We are pleased to invite chapter proposals for an upcoming edited volume that explores the intersection of linguistics, environmental studies, and education. This interdisciplinary collection aims to bridge theoretical frameworks with practical applications in the field of ecolinguistic pedagogy. The project is significant as it focuses on ecolinguistics pedagogy, part of an emerging field that combines ecolinguistics (pioneered by scholars like Alwin Fill, Michael Halliday, and Arran Stibbe since the 1990s) with educational approaches.

SCOPE: The volume seeks to examine how language shapes environmental understanding and how this knowledge ...

Beyond Green: Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation (Proposed as part of Bloomsbury’s Environment and Society series) Editors: Dr. Rajkumar Bera and Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash

Introduction

The concept of sustainability and conservation has traditionally been framed in terms of environmental protection and the safeguarding of natural ecosystems. However, as the global landscape shifts toward a more integrated and holistic understanding of the challenges faced by the planet, it is essential to recognize that ecological conservation cannot be seen in isolation from the cultural contexts that shape ...

Introduction We invite researchers, legal professionals, environmental experts, and multidisciplinary scholars to contribute papers for a forthcoming collaborative study on “Emerging Trends and Challenges in Environmental Law Enforcement”. This issue seeks to investigate the fast-changing landscape of environmental protection, the complex characteristics of environmental crimes, novel enforcement strategies, and cutting-edge techniques and instruments used to combat these offenses. The environmental concerns of the twenty-first century have grown more complex and pressing as we work through their intricacies. Threats such as resource depletion, pollution, climate change, ...

To what extent have ecocriticism and the environmental humanities taken up the call to consider nonhuman cultures or reconsider the idea of culture itself in light of their existence? Contributions from many disciplines are welcome, including literary studies, cultural histories, animal studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

Please submit an abstract, 250 to 300 words, for a ten to fifteen minute paper on any example or aspect of the following: Nonhuman avian culture(s) Nonhuman oceanic culture(s) Insect culture(s) transcultural work of Sue SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH Nonhuman cultures and PAR (participatory action ...

This volume addresses the various instantiations of monoculture today. In an era of environmental crises and climate change, often caused or exacerbated by monocultures, the aim of the book is to examine this phenomenon from a global perspective. Beyond their environmental consequences, it is crucial to understand the impact of single- species cultures on human and more-than-human societies. Authors are invited to analyze plant and animal monocultures, as well as the predominance of monocultures of the human mind (Vandana Shiva, Monocultures of the ...

The Critical Question of Animal Cultures

Considering the challenge nonhuman animal cultures and field of cultural biology posed to the humanist idea of culture in 2014, it appeared that when ecocriticism discussed “culture as such in the last decade and a half, it has often been in the process of contesting a view of nature as a cultural construction. … In this tired debate, ecocritics, busy refuting an erasure of nature, and other theorists, busy asserting the primacy of culture, both end up affirming ...