CFP: Special issue of Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (SCOPUS Q2)
Geopolitics and the Anthropocene: Examining the Implications of Climate Change in the narratives of Global South
The special issue of the Journal of Narrative and Language Studies aims to introspect into the politics of unequal human agency and its resultant consequences related to climate change in the literature of the Global South. In this issue, we would like to place a special emphasis on the ‘Anthropocene fictions’ (Trexler 2015) produced within the literary culture of the Global South, addressing the problems of the present climate crisis and speculating on the future in order to understand ‘what anthropogenic climate change is and how long its effects may last’ (Chakrabarty 2016). In doing so, we invite abstracts that will explore the varied implications of ‘Anthropocene’/ ‘Capitalocene’ through the literary practises of the Global South, emphasising the issues related to climate refugees, eco-cultural calamities, environmental justice, citizenship, human-nonhuman interrelationship, dispossession of indigenous communities, and capitalism versus climate and island vulnerability. Thus, the special issue intends to invite submissions making theoretical and literary investigations into the multifaceted ‘Anthropocene’, particularly contextualised in the Global South, which demands greater representation within the climate change discourses. In the special issue, we also seek to examine the role of the authorial voices from the Global South in explicating the dire climatic conditions of the region in relation to geopolitics and in presenting an alternative environmental historiography of the Global South.
We thus invite scholars to submit abstracts/paper proposals that address the following (but not limited to) issues contextualised in the Global South and literature:
The critique of human agency in the Anthropocene
The critique of unequal human agency in the Capitalocene
Capitalism and climate change
Environmental justice and citizenship
Indigenous communities and the climate crisis
Speculative fiction and climate change
Human-nonhuman interrelationship
Fossil fuel energy regime and ‘extraction ecologies’
Ecological and cultural calamities
Postcolonial ecology and climate change
Graphic narratives and climate change
Racism and speciesism
Island ecology and the Anthropocene
The abstracts (300 words) should be submitted to
[email protected] no later than March 31st, 2022.
Intimation of the selection of abstracts: 15 April 2022
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