Occupy Climate Change! (OCC!) was a research project funded by the Swedish Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) and ran from 2019 to 2022. The project investigated grassroots social innovations addressing climate change through in-depth case studies in Malmö (Sweden), New York City (USA), Rio de...
Environmental humanities scholar and anthropologist Dr. Sophie Chao (University of Sydney) has published a monograph with Duke University Press, titled Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. The book draws on Chao's ethnographic fieldwork in West Papua and examines how Indigenous Marind communities...
Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Ecospirituality in Asia: Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability This edited volume draws upon the interconnected narratives of ecology and spirituality in Asia from the perspectives of care, conservation, and sustainability of the environment. The intersection between ecology and spirituality,...
FIAS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2026/2027 The FrenchInstitutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships atthe seven Institutes of Aix Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours),Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.For the...
In environmental history, we strive to connect with our research subjects beyond traditional archives and research methods. To celebrate Environmental History Week, please join us for a workshop exploring the materiality, interconnectedness, and temporalities of the objects that appear in our everyday lives. We will...
This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music. Combining the practices of literary criticism and creative writing, Decolonising Pastoral develops a new series of tools for the project of the environmental...
Call for Papers for a special issue of Australian Journal of Environmental Education on Critical Forest Studies: Seeding a New Field from Underground to Overstory. Abstracts are due 15 April 2025. The complete CFP is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/67d158c0f55b706c517da81a/Critical-Forest-Studies-Special-Issue.pdf Co-Guest Editors: David Rousell (RMIT), Cher Hill (Simon Fraser University),...
Hosted by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH), the conference Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives (25-27 September 2025) invites scholars from diverse disciplines to critically evaluate the implications of the Global North-South framework...
Dear colleagues, I seek to employ an RA to collaborate with me toward 'Sea-Works' (working title), a digital resource which intends to facilitate public encounters with maritime-archaeological artefacts while opening those artefacts to novel, and plural, interpretive pathways. In principle, the resource will present 3D models...
Plumwood Inc. are still searching for new caretakers to live onsite at Plumwood Mountain from 2025 onwards. Surrounded by exceptional old growth forest and Val Plumwood's personal museum and library, this position offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience Plumwood’s living legacy and contribute to the communal...