CFP: Article Collection “Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World”. Publisher: Routledge Open Research

Article Collection “Human & Beyond: Exploring Our More-Than-Human World”.

Publisher: Routledge Open Research

The study of life-forms’ interplays has much to contribute to the survey of alternative post-anthropocentric narratives. This is no more pressing while the disastrous phenomena afflicted on Earth’s ecosystems continues to threaten all life-forms’ existence. 

The Human & Beyond collection explores the concept of our “more-than-human world” (Abram, 1997). It offers a space for examining the interconnections within and beyond environmental studies as they pertain to a range of interdisciplinary interests across all fields and approaches to humans’ and nonhumans’ entanglements past and present. 

Focusing on the “more-than-human world” this collection opens the possibilities of encompassing a vast web of disciplines that highlights the interconnectedness of human existence with environmental wellbeing. From understanding the history of our relationship with the planet (environmental history) to designing sustainable buildings (environmental architecture), the field explores issues and solutions to environmental challenges. It delves into social justice issues (environmental justice) and economic models (ecological economics), while studies on social and political ecology, eco-spatialities, environmental engineering and ecological medicine tackle practical problems, alongside food production (agro-ecology) and responsible tourism (ecotourism). While the central concept of this collection focuses on the emergence of research in environmental studies, special attention is given to the emerging work in blue/green humanities.

We welcome submissions that advance knowledge across a broad spectrum of research disciplines within and beyond Environmental Studies and engage with timely environmental questions about the future of human and non-human being, seeking to explore practices of ‘restorying’ our relationship with nature.

Submissions related to one or more of the following sub-themes and secondary concepts are encouraged:

• Literature and Culture: ecocriticism, eco-poetics, eco-literatures (e.g., cli-fi, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic eco-narratives), eco-narratology, ecofeminism, queer ecologies, eco-psychology
• Art and Aesthetics: eco-/bio-art, eco-aesthetics
• Philosophy and Ethics: eco-/bio-philosophies, deep ecology, dark ecology, matters of eco-/biocentrism
• Language and Communication: eco-linguistics, eco-/bio-musicology, public humanities and rhetorical ecologies
• Environmental Concerns: energy humanities and petrocultures, neologisms of -cene (e.g., Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Neganthropocene, Necrocene, Symbiocene, etc.), blue-green humanities, ocean humanities, digital environmental humanities, plant humanities, animal studies
• Geographic and Social Issues: urban ecologies, indigenous ecologies, disability ecologies, postcolonial ecologies, religious ecologies, black ecologies, resilience and sustainability and bio-archaeology.

We also welcome submissions on broader issues of biopolitics, bioterrorism, pandemics, eco-/biotechnology, anthropocentrism and post-anthropocentrism and in emerging fields of post-/meta-/a-/trans-humanism, citizen humanities and environmental citizenship.

Full articles' deadline: November 1, 2025.

Email for questions, please contact Kristen Brida ([email protected]).

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