Call for Papers: Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

 

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice

Works that explore environmental issues through literatures, oral traditions, and cultural/media practices around the world are welcome. The series features books by established ecocritics that examine the intersection of theory and practice, including both monographs and edited volumes. Contemporary and historical works are equally appropriate.

Proposals are invited in the range of topics covered by ecocriticism, including but not limited to works informed by

• cross-cultural and transnational approaches
• postcolonial studies
• ecofeminism
• ecospirituality, ecotheology, and religious studies
• film/media and visual cultural studies
• environmental aesthetics and arts
• ecopoetics
• animal studies.

Please send proposals for Ecocritical Theory and Practice 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:

• A 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.

Ecocritical Theory and Practice’s Advisory Board:

• Auður Aðalsteinsdóttir (Iceland)
• Sinan Akıllı (Turkey)
• Zélia Bora (Brazil)
• Nicolás Campisi (USA)
• Chan Kit-sze Amy (Hong Kong)
• Michelle Deininger (Wales)
• Nicole Dittmer (USA)
• Melanie Ruth Duckworth (Norway)
• Jonathan Elmore (USA)
• Lenka Filipova (Germany)
• Christina Holmes (USA)
• Peter I-min Huang (Taiwan)
• Serenella Iovino (USA)
• Özlem Karadağ (Turkey)
• Katarina Leppänen (Sweden)
• Keitaro Morita (Japan)
• Anupama Nayar C V (India)
• Serpil Oppermann (Turkey)
• John Charles Ryan (Australia)
• Joshua Schuster (Canada)
• Murali Sivaramakrishnan (India)
• Scott Slovic (USA)
• David Taylor (USA)
• Rebekah Taylor-Wiseman (USA)

Call for the Participants for an Academic association for African literary studies in India

 This goes out in the public domain that if you are working or researching in India in either African literature or African diasporic literature including African American literature, this is the place for you. I want to club together academicians both teachers and Research scholars under one umbrella of this academic association. The aim of the proposed academic body will be to establish its own dedicated journal of African literature including African diasporic and African American literature in India. The association will also hold its annual conference in collaboration with Indian universities and will also organize talks and seminars along with other literary activities as decided by the office bearers time to time. If you work in the said area and are dedicated to work for the cause of promoting African Literature in India, feel free to send your expression of entrust in about 200 words including your designation, affiliation and research experience to the following email africanliterary6@gmail.com

 before 30th November 2023. 

Call for Book Chapters - The #Planetary #Subaltern: On #South #Asian #History, #Theory, and #Texts in the #Anthropocene

 Concept Note

The Anthropocene, alluding to a geological epoch in which human presence accounts for the most consequential geophysical force, is subjected to criticism for representing homo sapiens as a homogeneous species within a geological stratum. The critics of the Anthropocene hypothesis charge it with the flaw of considering the human as a singular carbon-emitting subject, ignoring such “anthropological differences” that recognise humans in diverse sociological strata with varied ethnic, gendered, cultural, and geopolitical identities (Chakrabarty 2012, 14). While ignoring the human-induced geophysical changes is impossible, it is equally essential to recognise the uneven distribution of those changes and their impacts based on a region’s demography and geo-political situation. Such a disparity intensifies the discussion on human agency, justice, and human subjectivity, which are inextricably linked to human history. Therefore, it seems crucial to critically assess the human subjects with their plurality vis-à-vis the concurrent human-driven planetary crises in the Anthropocene. 

The term ‘Anthropocene’, emphasising the human agency as the dominant geophysical factor, has been doing rounds in the field of science since the 1980s. During the decade, a group of South Asian historians known as the Subaltern Studies Collective also emerged to reclaim the agency of humans on the sociopolitical fringes, and their endeavours resulted in an analogous writing of marginal groups’ history. While the Anthropocene notion implies a persistent impact of human agency on planetary conditions, Subaltern Studies aims to isolate something resembling an agency for the Subaltern – no matter how incoherent and inconsistent. In Subaltern Studies 2.0 (2022), Milinda Banerjee and Jelle J.P. Wouters, echoing the ethos of the earlier collective, widen the scope by stressing the interdependence of ‘multibeing communities,’ a necessary intervention amid the planetary crises.  The planetary crisis “calls on us to extend ideas of politics and justice to the nonhuman […]” (Chakrabarty 2021, 13) and to humans on the margins. Any political interpretation contextualised in the anthropocenic planetary crises also requires the ‘plural epistemologies’ as an interpretative strategy. The ‘plural epistemologies’ represent multiple beings beyond the dominant history to recognise the subaltern subjects as historical beings. The subaltern subjects as historical beings cannot escape their socio-geographical situatedness in the present planetary crises. Humanists have criticised the Anthropocene discourse for overlooking subaltern subjects’ situatedness in its attempt to reify the human as a monolithic force. Acknowledging the (largely ignored) subalterns’ historicity in the epoch characterised by human-caused planetary crises, it appears feasible to call into question the relevance of the Anthropocene discourse and investigate the sense it makes in South Asia, particularly when viewed through the critical lenses of the Subaltern Studies. 

In this regard, the proposed volume aims to facilitate an eventful dialogue between the two discursive fields of study of the Anthropocene and the Subaltern Studies to (re)define human agency and subjecthood in the human-dominated epoch, primarily through analysing subaltern narratives in South Asia. The volume intends to further questions: Does the human-dominated epoch only refer to humans with power? Does the Anthropocene grossly disregard the subaltern communities’ presence? What role does the subaltern play in the Anthropocene? How do we speculate the future of subalterns amidst the planetary crisis? By doing so, the volume aims to open an avenue of study, archiving the South Asian subaltern communities’ micro-narratives concerning the current crises, which include global warming, resource deficit, shortage of water, deforestation, the production of climate refugees, gendered violence and disease, pandemic, and terrorism, among others. Furthermore, the suggested new field of study, supported by the Anthropocene discourses and the Subaltern Studies together, seeks to cater to the new modes of interpretation required for defining the human subject amid the anthropocenic planetary crises, which we would refer to as the ‘planetary subaltern’ in the volume. The volume, thus, considers ‘planetary subaltern’ as a theoretical strategy to trace the South Asian subaltern history and anticipate its future in the Anthropocene.

The volume aims to engage the discourses on the Anthropocene and the Subaltern from three broad perspectives: theorising the ‘Planetary Subaltern’; textual politics of the ‘Planetary Subaltern’; and planetary crisis and the subaltern subject. Thus, we invite chapter proposals that address the following (but not limited to) issues contextualised in South Asia:

• A theoretical approach to the ‘Planetary Subaltern.’
• Textual and media representations of the ‘Planetary Subaltern.’
• Historiography of the ‘Planetary Subaltern’
• Indigenous communities and the planetary crisis 
• Human-nonhuman interaction on the fringes
• Refugee crisis, migration and statelessness 
• Gendered subaltern and the Anthropocene
• Peasant History and the Anthropocene
• Agrarian condition in the Anthropocene
• Postpoliticised environment and the Subaltern
• Planetary crisis and the class conflict
• Casteism and speciesism 
• Planetary crisis and disease 
• Pandemic and the Subaltern

 

References

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2012. “Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change.” New Literary History 43 (1):1-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23259358. 

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2021. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Banerjee, Milinda, and Jelle J.P. Wouters. 2022. Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being Against the Capitalocene. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. 

 

*We are currently in discussions with a renowned publishing house.

 

 

Chapter proposals within 400 words and a short bio-note (50 words) are to be submitted by 15 November 2023.

The invited chapters within 6000-7000 words (excluding end notes and citations) will be due on 15 March 2024 (tentatively).

The chapter abstracts and the full-length chapters are to be submitted to the email ID theplanetarysubaltern@gmail.com

 

 Editors: Somasree Sarkar (Assistant Professor, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal) and Agnibha Maity (Senior Research Fellow, University of North Bengal)

For further queries, please write to us at somasree.2008@gmail.com or rs_agnibha@nbu.ac.in.

Call For Articles : Environmental Narratives and the Eremitic Turn

 Environmental Narratives and the Eremitic Turn (due Nov. 30)

Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art (an indexed, online, open-access journal) invites proposals for essays that explore the diverse ways in which eremitic bodies, ascetic practice, and the landscape of the wilderness, were represented and imagined in visual culture. This topic encompasses the locus of eremitic experience, which might be from any religious tradition or geographical location, whether wilderness, mountain, or desert, broadly conceived. It also encompasses the bodies – individual and communal – who chose to inhabit that landscape (as a real or imagined place), and their lived experience. We welcome submissions that:

• consider the resonance and meaning of the ascetic tradition across time and space
• investigate the ascetic tradition and its entanglement with notions of the landscape as wilderness and holy mountain
• adopt an environmental or ecocritical approach to the eremitic experience
• explore the tensions between, for example, wilderness and cultivation, inhospitable and fertile landscapes, ascetic practice and the eremitic impulse
• consider the re-imagining or invocation of the historical desert in monastic, mendicant or other contexts
• explore the continuing resonance of the eremitic, in symbolic or ecologic terms, in our contemporary world
• approach the themes above from a global perspective

This special issue engages with urgent contemporary concerns about the impact of human activity on the earth that sustains us. It resonates with recent scholarly interest in the relationship between humanity and nature in the pre- and early modern period, seeking a broad, inclusive, and cross-disciplinary reflection on the visual representation of this interdependence.

Contact Information

Jennifer Borland and Nancy Thompson

Contact Email

differentvisionsjournal@gmail.com

URL

https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/___https://differentvisions.org/call-for-prop…

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

URL

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