Tag: sustainability
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Panpsychismus im Nachhaltigkeitsdenken. Eine metaethische Reflexion by Madeleine Hugai
News, Books, EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS, EASLCE Newsletter Vol. 21.1 Summer 2026, Ecocriticism PublicationsWhat does sustainability mean when nature is understood not merely as a resource but as a bearer of subjectivity? What underlying assumptions shape our current thinking about sustainability, and where are its limits? Madeleine Hugai demonstrates that prevailing concepts are heavily human-centered and thus overlook important aspects. As an alternative, she develops an expanded concept…
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CfP: Cultivating Sustainability – Education and the Environmental Humanities
What is now known as the environmental humanities has become a recognised and thriving field, and invaluable work that tackles the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and energy consumption is being done in areas such as ecocriticism, human-animal studies, and environmental history…
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CALL BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS To be considered for “Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics,” an edited collection under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, for its Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series (https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/ETAP), we invite chapters of 6000-8000 words…
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Call for Papers; Energy Use and the Humanities
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2016 Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue will include papers that explore the intersection of the various Humanities disciplines, with the production and consumption of energy sources, such as petroleum, natural gas, nuclear energy, solar and wind power, and coal (this is only a partial list and papers that explore…
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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CITY: URBAN POETICS AND POLITICS. APRIL 1, 2015. Conventional deployments of the term “sustainability” emphasize “avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources,” as the Oxford English Dictionary defines this word. However, the emergent idea of “comprehensive sustainability” considers the so-called natural environment and human politics in equal measure…
