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Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Invitation to Publish: Contribute to #Environment and #Society #BookSeries

 Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES


Books in this series include both monographs and edited volumes that are grounded in the realities of ecological issues identified by the natural sciences. Our authors and contributors come from disciplines including but not limited to anthropology, architecture, area studies, communication studies, economics, ethics, gender studies, geography, history, law, pedagogy, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and theology. To foster a constructive dialogue between these researchers and environmental scientists, the Environment and Society series publishes work that is relevant to those engaged in environmental studies, while also being of interest to scholars from the author’s primary discipline.

As scholars examine the environmental challenges facing humanity, they increasingly recognize that solutions require a focus on the human causes and consequences of these threats, and not merely a focus on the scientific and technical issues. To meet this need, books in this series help the reader understand contemporary environmental concerns, while offering concrete steps to address these problems.

Please send proposals for Environment and Society to General Editor Douglas Vakoch (dvakoch@meti.org) and Acquisitions Editor Courtney Morales (cmorales@rowman.com).

Proposal Guidelines:
To submit a proposal, please send:

  • a prospectus (see below for details)
  • a detailed table of contents
  • one or two sample chapters
  • your curriculum vitae

If you are proposing a contributed volume, please include titles, affiliations, and brief resumes for each of the contributors. The prospectus should include:

  • description of the book, describing the core themes, arguments, issues, goals, and/or topics of the work, what makes it unique, what questions it seeks to answer, and why you are qualified to write it (2–5 pages).
  • A description of your target audience (undergraduate or graduate students? scholars? professionals?).
  • An analysis of competing or similar books (including publishers and dates), indicating distinctive and original elements of your project that set it apart from these other works.
  • A list of courses in which your book might be used as a text or supplementary text, indicating the course level at which this book may be used.
  • An indication of whether any part of your manuscript has been published previously, and if it is a doctoral dissertation, what changes you are proposing to prepare it for publication.
  • The length of the manuscript either as a word count. Will there be figures, tables, or other non-text material, and, if so, approximately how many? If the text is not complete, please still estimate its final length, not including the non-text material.
  • If the manuscript is not complete, an estimation of when it will be finished. Is there a particular date by which you hope the book will be published (due to a historical anniversary, conference, etc.?)
  • The names of four to seven respected scholars in your field with whom you have no personal or professional relationship. Include their titles, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and/or mailing addresses.
  • An indication of whether the manuscript is under consideration by other publishers.

Saturday, 4 November 2023

Call for Papers: #Feminist Health #Humanities - The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities

 In 2022, the Journal of Medical Humanities announced its intention to re-focus its content on the nascent subject of health humanities, and in 2023, NYU Press published Keywords for Health Humanities, collectively signaling a change in disciplinary trajectory to the medical humanities community. The field’s re-configuration of nomenclature, which also includes critical medical humanities and narrative medicine, reflects its evolution and expansion according to the impetuses of inclusivity and accessibility. “Health,” as Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald note in the introduction to Keywords, “is a site in which the social and global inequities of the world are writ large.” Health allows us a wider lens through which to approach lived experience and affords us the ability to draw on a fuller range of theoretical frames and nuanced interpretations as we attend to social justice.

In this issue of the Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities, we are soliciting articles that broadly address feminist health humanities. Feminism challenges oppression and bias, calls for intersectional analysis, and tests epistemological formations. We are curious about what feminism’s intellectual traditions and critical approaches bring to the health humanities and how feminist methodologies challenge or change medical practices or knowledge. A non-exhaustive list of topics manuscripts might address includes:

  • How could healthcare change when informed by a justice-oriented or feminist lens, particularly when women’s reproductive healthcare is often a political site of resistance and strife?
  • How can the health humanities inform or reflect approaches from other feminist perspectives such as critical race theory, disability studies, madness studies, etc.?
  • How does feminist data science work towards closing the gender data gap (in medicine, the sciences, and other disciplines)?
  • What do under-studied narratives – from patients, medical practitioners, encounters between Eastern and Western medicines, etc. – bring to our understanding of the health humanities?
  • Can we find feminism in our historical approaches and encounters to the health humanities, which have informed our contemporary understanding of the field?
  • How do body technologies, medical procedures, or pharmaceuticals shape our encounters with health, the body, the mind, and gender?

Submission Guidelines

Contributions that adhere to the Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities’ general aims and scope will be considered. Authors who wish to contribute to the upcoming issue should upload their manuscripts here:

 https://so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJIIH/about/submissions

The journal does not have a strict word limit, but we recommend manuscripts be in the range of 5000-7000 words, excluding footnotes and references. The manuscript must include an abstract no longer than 150 words. References must follow APA style. Manuscripts should be uploaded no later than January 15, 2024.

For futher information, please contact the guest-editors Nicole Infanta Keller, Chiang Mai University (nicole.keller@cmu.ac.th) or Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Georgetown University (lhartm13@jhu.edu).

The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Humanities. The journal “...aims to promote the importance of interdisciplinary studies and the coalescence between humanities and other areas such as science – be it natural-, social-, or applied science, economics, and business administration. The journal publishes interdisciplinary papers, bridging the gap between humanities and other disciplines, and emphasizing the critical role of humanities in any fields of study’s discussion and innovation

Contact Information

Soren Ivarsson, Co-editor in chief, Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities

Contact Email
soren.i@cmu.ac.th