Calls for Contributions

Proposals are invited for an edited collection of essays that explore the relationship between adaptation studies and the environment. The editors of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series have expressed interest in publishing this collection.

In his 2023 article, “Towards an Ecocritical Adaptation Studies,” Robert Geal argues persuasively that adaptation studies can “help address the fundamental ecocritical question—what is it about our culture(s) which cause(s) us to endanger our own survival by treating the biosphere with such contempt?—by outlining how human ...

See the full call here: https://unearthedesf.com/call-for-submissions-resurgence-restoration-and-renewal/

Unearthed Returns for Spring 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the revival of Unearthed. Like a field left fallow for a season to rest, the literary and art magazine published by the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, is now ready for a fresh new editorial team to breathe new life back into its pages. And we can’t wait for you to join us!

We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives to submit to our upcoming ...

Call online: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/0LNYE52731

Dear Colleagues, In her new book, Cannibal Capitalism (2023), Nancy Fraser connects the climate and ecological crises to a contemporary crisis of care. Both, she argues, are rooted in a voracious form of capitalism that consumes the resources upon which our lives depend. This Special Issue seeks to build on a wave of recent writing that explores care as a valuable concept for the environmental humanities. ‘What’, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa asks, ‘does caring mean when we go about thinking and ...

Edited Collection: Rotting Corpses: Ecocritical Approaches to Death and Decomposition

Editors: Sara Crosby, Carter Soles, and Ashley Kniss

In Julia Kristeva’s seminal work, The Powers of Horror, she describes decay as the “contamination of life by death” (149). She goes on to write that “a decaying body, lifeless, completely turned into dejection, blurred between the inanimate and inorganic, a transitional swarming, inseparable lining of a human nature whose life is indistinguishable from the symbolic—the corpse represents fundamental pollution” (109). Kristeva’s work has influenced countless treatments ...

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 ...