Calls for Contributions

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 ...

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 ...