Calls for Contributions

Special Theme on Latinx Recreation in Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal

Co-edited by Gabriela Nuñez, David Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah D. Wald

Abstracts Due: February 1, 2023

This special theme brings together two overlapping areas: Latinx environmentalisms and Latinx leisure and outdoor recreation. Latinx communities’ and cultures’ relationships to natural history and outdoor recreation is a growing area of interest in Latinx studies and in the environmental humanities. We aim to provide cultural and historic context to contemporary efforts to diversify conservation and outdoor ...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR TOPICAL ISSUES of OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES vol. 2023

Open Cultural Studies (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/culture/html) invites groups of researchers, conference organizers and individual scholars to submit their proposals of edited volumes to be considered for publication as topical issues of the journal.

To submit your proposal please contact Dr Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com Proposals will be collected by October 31, 2022.

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Open Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different ...

Very few attempts have been made so far to decolonize the expanse of Blue Humanities yet it stands as an ensemble of creative renewals. With Ian Buchanan’s ‘Must we eat Fish’ we get to encounter the topography of such renewals. With his essay Buchanan effects a relation between ‘the foundational non-humanity of our being’ and oceans while Probyn, whose standpoint he critiques, seeks a persistence of exploitative humanist relationality with the same in the guise of “amplifying the level of felt relatedness to ...

Call for Papers: Journal of West Indian Literature Special Issue on Literature, Art, and Environmental Activism

Writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other arts performers have taken a leading role in protesting governmental failure and corporate responsibility for environmental destruction and disaster across the Caribbean. In the 2000s, Caribbean writers, filmmakers, visual and other artists have spoken truth to power in Puerto Rico and Dominica after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, in the struggle to preserve Jamaica’s Cockpit country from bauxite mining, and against extractive industries, tourism, ...

Environmental Politics After Humanism (edited collection)

This edited collection of essays aims to invigorate and expand an emerging interdisciplinary conversation, based in posthuman and new materialist theory, between political science and environmental humanities scholars.

One of the most intriguing ideas within new materialist and posthuman theory is undoubtedly the concept of post-anthropocentric, or distributed, agency. The work of Bruno Latour, Karen Barad, Jane Bennett, Stacy Alaimo, to name just a few influential scholars, has produced a definitive critique of humanist models of subjectivity, agency and ...

Writing Opportunity: Our Ocean’d Earth

Here’s an opportunity to be a part of a very special anthology…

The call is for nonfiction or fiction writing that conveys one clear and unified message: that our oceans are worth fighting for. To help restore a culture of inspiration and reverence towards Earth’s oceans we are looking for masterfully woven stories from a range of perspectives—from marine life researchers to conservationists, free divers to writers with a deep connection to the sea, and more—who can reveal secrets of ...

The “Language-Society-Environment Nexus” is a prominent cross-disciplinary field of research that has been commonly addressed by the scientific community. Be it a newspaper article, a video, a classroom activity, a political debate, a social network page, creative writing, or a textbook course, we think that environmental studies have been striving to maintain the protection of nature in all its interconnectivity, including all beings, humans and animals. Today, environmental studies are a magnet that connects ecology, society, and language. For example, problems like climate change, global warming, pollution, ...

Edited by Professor Susan McHugh (University of New England) and Professor Patrícia Vieira (University of Coimbra/Georgetown University)

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Plants and Animals: Interdisciplinary Approaches aims to publish scholarly work that addresses common challenges across the fields of plant and animal studies from interdisciplinary perspectives. The series welcomes monographs and edited collections that focus and reflect upon interactions of plants, animals, and humans in innovative ways. At a time of large-scale anthropogenic species extinction, there is a pressing need to promote scholarship that can help us envision more ...

Special Issue of University of Toronto Quarterly (Fall 2024)

Representing a (Post) Pandemic World (1722-2022)

This special issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly asks: What is the role of art in a (post)pandemic world? How do representations of a virus/pandemic bear witness to, diagnose, and remediate the (post)pandemic world? How do we define (post)pandemic writing and the arts throughout their long histories?

Answering these questions is difficult because, as Elizabeth Outka argues, a pandemic is a “miasma” with “spectral realities”; it is “an unseen, corrupting, ...

Chapter proposals are invited for The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (hereafter simply The Handbook), to be published within the series Routledge Literature Handbooks in 2023. We especially welcome ecocritical proposals at the intersection of transgender literature and such topics as The Anthropocene, Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi), Ecology, and Nature Writing.

The senior editor of The Handbook, Douglas Vakoch, has edited over twenty books, including Transecology: ...