Call for abstracts for a special issue Ecofeminisms and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment

The academic journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for abstracts for its special issue on Ecofeminisms and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment

Editors: Ivy Helman, M.A., Ph.D. and Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová, Ph.D.

This mono-thematic issue of Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research titled Ecofeminisms and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment takes this position as a departure for investigation of political, academic, social, cultural, spiritual, and epistemic responses to life on a planet, whose capacity to sustain lifeworlds and ecosystems as we currently know them, has been and is continually being compromised by human actions.

This issue seeks papers that contribute to ongoing interdisciplinary debates in ecofeminist thought situated in specific contexts of various regions of the world, in energy and blue humanities, environmental studies and ecology, cultural and literary studies as well as postcolonial/decolonial and queer theories, arts, anthropology, sociology, theology and philosophy and any other fields by theorizing extractivism, exhaustion, survivance, and future-oriented imaginations and epistemologies. By integrating analyses portraying material infrastructures, aesthetic forms, environmental responses and representations of, among others, environmental and gender-based violence and/or symbolic violence, this issue aims to illuminate how ecofeminisms, environmental movements, social mobilizations as well as cultural texts register the limits of capitalist cisheteropatriarchal society and fossil modernity and participate in the imaginative labor of articulating sustainable futures.

Notifications of acceptance to publish in the thematic issue will be sent out before June 30, 2026. Final versions of articles are to be submitted by December 31, 2026. This special issue will be released in late fall of 2027.

The editors also welcome book reviews and reports relevant to the topic of the forthcoming issue.

You should submit an abstract of your paper (max. 250 words) with 5 keywords and an a short bio (approx. 100 words) by June 10, 2026 to the editor’s office (genderteam@soc.cas.cz) and to the editors Ivy Helman (ivy.helman@fhs.cuni.cz) and Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová (tereza.jiroutovakynclova@fhs.cuni.cz). Please include “Ecofeminisms” in the subject line of the email.

Articles will be accepted in English and should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words in length, including footnotes and references.

Further information can be found on this website.