Calls for Contributions

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, and biodiversity loss are now realities that ...

Invitation to authors for the edited volume “Arboreal Nationalism in the Global North”

Concerns about climate change, contamination, and biodiversity loss have placed forests at the forefront of environmental discussions and negotiations at global and national levels. Forest conflicts are on the rise (Nousiainen and Mola-Yudego, 2022) and these tensions are informing discussions on what societies want from their relationship with forests. These current debates about uncertain (forest) futures (Chakrabarty, 2009), cannot be separated from the historical connection between the nation/state, nationalism, and nature. ...

Call for submissions for a special issue of Community Literacy Journal: “Reconceptualizing Sustainability Literacies”

Sustainability, in the context of environmental concerns, has long been central to the work of community literacy practitioners (Mareck, CLJ Special Issue, 2009; House, Lasswell, and Dickson, Reflections Special Issue, 2016). Indeed, such work encompasses grassroots struggles with sustainability (Meyers, 2009), rural, placed-based, and eco-pedagogies (Cushman, 2018; Donehower, Hogg, and Schell, 2007; Davis, 2013), food security (Martinez, 2022), local public environmental discourse (Goggin and Long, 2009), and durable futures (McKibben, ...

Call for Submissions for The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River

Edited by A. Robert Lee and Chad Weidner

Introduction and Scope: The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico.

Through a multidisciplinary approach—encompassing geography, ecology, history, culture, ...

Our next spring anthology will explore bodies in all their forms – animal, plant, bacterial, planetary, cosmological and symbolic – as well as questioning the boundaries modern culture puts between them. The more we learn of complexity, the less the concept of a single body, as an atomised unit, makes sense: on a microscopic scale, our systems are hosts to colonies of organisms that affect our physical and mental health; zooming out, we are all entwined in the movements of wheeling planets. Where ...

This special issue invites scholarly and artistic reflections on speculations about the im/possible and un/desirable future(s) of the tropics. We encourage inquiries on future tropical scenarios, social or ecological, utopian or dystopian, embodied or mediated, among local or global diasporic communities.

Tropical Futurisms situate the reading of futures in the shared yet multiple modalities of this geographical zone, acknowledging the social and political complexities, technological engagements, multispecies vitalities, and cosmological plurality within these regions. A glimpse into one of the many possible imaginaries of ...

Call for articles for a special issue of de genere – Journal of Literary, Postcolonial, and Gender Studies on “Feminist and Intersectional Ecologies in Literature and Visual Culture”

Editors for this issue: Giulia Fabbri (Sapienza University of Rome) and Chiara Xausa (University of Bologna)

In her 2008 article Ecofeminism without Nature?, Stacy Alaimo writes that the possibilities for connecting feminism and environmentalism are myriads. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that all feminist theories are environmentalist at heart or oriented toward multispecies justice, since ...

New Article Collection entitled “Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World.” This Collection is now live in Routledge Open Research. The deadline to submit is November 1st, 2025.

Interested in submitting to the Collection? Find out more by reaching out to the Commissioning Editor, Kristen Brida, at kristen.brida@taylorandfrancis.com

URL: https://routledgeopenresearch.org/collections/humanandbeyond/about

Spring 2025 Special Issue of Critical Humanities on Planetary Thinking [ ] Appalachia

In the inaugural issue of the Critical Humanities journal, Puspa Damai notes that the dual focus of the journal is to “foster planetary thinking and…promote discourses of decolonization, democratization and social justice” among individuals and communities on both sides of the North/South divide.This call to “planetary thinking” echoes the focus of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Focusing specifically on the cognitive shifts fostered by climate sciences ...

From pack mules, horses and sled dogs to Harry Harlow’s rhesus monkey experiments, the chimpanzee Ham in a Mercury capsule and today’s genetic engineering experiments using lab animals, nonhuman animals have always been exploited to explore outer and inner worlds of interest to humanity. However, they themselves, as sentient agents, also exhibit curiosity and other emotions in relation to their own explorations.

Terrae Incognitae, the journal of exploration and cross-cultural interaction, is announcing a call for papers for a special issue on animal explorers, ...