Calls for Contributions

Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place, and Community seeks abstract submissions for features or columns for our 2025 issue on Rights, Conflict, and Water. We seek contributions that foreground the complexities and intersections of water rights and water conflicts. How is the right to water enacted in different contexts? How do “rights” and practices reciprocally inform each other? How are water rights allocated? How is water mobilized in sociopolitical practices and how is it weaponized? How does water contribute to larger social discord? How ...

Call Online: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/79339W639K

Dear Colleagues,

Secular criticism, as Edward Said defined it, has been central to the study of postcolonial literature (understood to include the literatures of the global south and the developing world, including Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Pacific Islands, Caribbean and Latin American literatures). It is also clear, however, that traditionally secularist readings of postcolonial literature have not given full account of the ways in which both religious and spiritual connections to the natural world (including monotheistic, polytheistic, and idiosyncratic conceptions of metaphysics ...

The consequences of human-induced climate change, the extinction of flora and fauna, pollution, environmental predation, and injustices are causing a spectrum of constraints, shrinkage, alteration and loss (Murphy, 2017; Elliott, 2018; Dokumaci, 2023). In response,people are figuring out how to think, communicate and act differently to account for damages done by systems whose human, more-than-human, and planetary harms are fueled by petrocultures (Chapman & Ahmed, 2021; Gomez-Barris, 2018; Táíwò, 2022). Carbon-concerned researchers, professionals, and citizens are advancing necessary shifts, including the design and implementation ...

Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory Series Editor: Peggy Karpouzou

Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory offers a comprehensive reference resource for scholars and students working in the areas of cultural and literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy, political and social theory. Critical thought about literature, society, ethics, and culture has become vital to the interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities and social sciences. This book series provides state-of-the-art overviews and concise research monographs on the main issues and figures in critical theory understood in its broadest terms. ...

CALL FOR PAPERS for a topical issue of “Open Cultural Studies” CRITICAL PLANT THEORIES AND CULTURES: EXPLORING HUMAN AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD ENTANGLEMENTS

Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/CULTURE) invites submissions for a topical issue “Critical Plant Theories and Cultures: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements”, edited by Dr. Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece).

Plant Humanities is a very recent branch of critical inquiry in literary and cultural studies, which, although discussed since the 1970s, entered public discourse only in 2013 with Michael ...

Submissions call for Dark Mountain: Issue 25 Submissions are now open for Dark Mountain’s 25th issue, a book that explores the deeper questions around exclusion from the land in an age of escalating climate and ecological breakdown. What might it take to reawaken our sense of being part of an animate world?

Read more description at https://dark-mountain.net/submissions-call-for-dark-mountain-issue-25/

Dark Mountain: Issue 25 will be published in April 2024. The deadline for submissions is Friday 10th November. For details on what and how to submit, please read our submissions guidelines. ...

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Water Works: The Arts of Water Management, 1550–1800

Editors: Dr Rosamund Paice and Dr Claudine van Hensbergen (Northumbria University)

At a time of environmental crisis, it has never been more important to engage with the history of mankind’s exploitation of natural resources. This edited collection of essays will look at water, focusing on the arts of water management through the fields of the arts, cultural history, and the environmental humanities. Our aim is to shed light on the ways in which humans ...

In December 2024, the bilingual online journal Interfaces will issue a volume on the relation between the book, its materials and the lifeforms of the non-human world. It welcomes papers (in English or in French) showcasing the book as ecomedia that can be explored from the perspective of ecocritical intermediality (Bruhn). The theme of this volume will also reflect the environmental and ecocritical turn in art history (Anderson et al.; Patrizio), and it may prompt theoretical forays into media archaeology (Huhtamo and Parikka). ...

CFP: Special Issue of Interconnections: journal of posthumanism

A growing body of contemporary fiction and film, along with more political and practical networks, such as zines, conferences, and writing collectives, engage with fungal discourses to think about the porous and permeable limits of bodies, to reconsider our relationship with space, time, death and decay, and to imagine novel ways of perceiving, living, and resisting power. What is perhaps most attractive to this novel spatial concurrence of politics, ontologies, and knowledge lies in the fungi’s ...

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book on transgender cli-fi and sci-fi. We welcome chapters examining climate fiction and science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media. We have confirmed contributors from a dozen countries on six continents.

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than September 1, 2023.

A sampling of confirmed contributors includes: