Those wishing to propose a collective volume should prepare a 500 words abstract.
The proposal must seek to address the aims and scopes of the book series.
Normally, two collective volumes are published each year, in the months of April/May and November/December.
Those wishing to propose a monographic volume should prepare a 500 words abstract and a provisional index.
Proposals must be sent to the following address:
E-mail: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com
Call for Book Chapters
Literature, Geography, and the Poetics of Space: Tracing Historical Narratives Across Literary Landscapes
Edited by
Sara Ansaloni
(Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
Eleonora Gioia
(Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy)
Dear Colleagues,
we would like to inform you that the call for chapter contributions to the “Geographies of the Anthropocene” book series for the collective volume titled: Literature, Geography, and the Poetics of Space: Tracing Historical Narratives Across Literary Landscapes (Language: English), edited by Sara Ansaloni (Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States) and Eleonora Gioia (Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy) is now open.
Scope:
The field of literary geography, an interdisciplinary branch of human geography, has undergone significant evolution over time. Its approaches reflect various intellectual movements, encompassing regionalism, humanism, radicalism, and quantitativism. Since the 1970s, geographers have been more and more interested in exploring literature as a critical response to quantitative orthodoxy, aiming to reorient geographical research around human experiences and perceptions of place. This transition, from conceiving space as external coordinates to recognizing its dynamic and relational nature, has been facilitated by a growing humanistic emphasis on the subjective experiences of place and the cultural significance embedded within specific landscapes.
The emergence of Brosseau’s 1994 review essay in Progress in Human Geography marked a pivotal moment in the advancement of literary geography, internationalizing the field and emphasizing the space-generating aspects of narrative. Subsequent interdisciplinary efforts, such as the 2004 conference of the Royal Geographical Society of British Geographers with a session on “Textual Spaces, Spatial Texts” have further bridged geography and literary theory.
The “spatial turn” in cultural studies and the “cultural turn” in geography of the late 1990s and early 2000s increased the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and theories. This phenomenon, initially identified by Edward Soja in 1989, has drawn on various philosophical and geographical concepts, highlighting the contributions of Henri Lefebvre (1974), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1980), and Michel Foucault (1984). Seminal works like Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (Westphal, 2007) and The Ecocriticism Reader (Glotfelty, Fromm, 1996) have enriched the discourse on literature and geography, inspiring scholars to adopt diverse analytical methods including geocriticism, geopoetry, ecocriticism, literary cartography, and psychogeography.
Themes explored at the intersection of literature and geography encompass a wide array of topics, including representations of space and place in literary texts, analyses of urban and natural landscapes, environmental concerns, and investigations into identity formation and geopolitical narratives. This interdisciplinary approach facilitates cross-fertilization among disciplines such as geography, ecology, psychology, history, and literature, encompassing both their representational and creative dimensions.
Interested colleagues are encouraged to submit abstracts, with a maximum of 500 words. Topics of interest in the call include, but are not limited to:
- Contributions on literary cartography, geographical imagination, and spatial representations in literature and poetry;
- Ecocriticism and Anthropocene: investigating literary representation on environmental issues and their ecological significance;
- Geocritical explorations and the post-modern space;
- Digital humanities and transforming landscapes: the impact of digital technologies on the representation and interpretation of landscapes in literature;
- Geopolitics in literature: analysing how literature reflects and engages with geopolitical issues, power dynamics, or territorial conflicts;
- Relationality and geoaesthetics;
- The cultural and geographical implication of chorographies and travel narratives;
- Psychogeography, urban writing and the interaction between space, place, and the human psyche;
- Imaginary Geographies and the construction of landscapes.
Keywords: Literary geography; Urban writings; Travel narratives; Geographical novels; Cartography; Narration; Human and Cultural geography.
Critical bibliography
Bachelard G., 1957, Poétique de l’Espace, Paris : P.U.F, coll. Quadrige Grands textes.
Bakhtin M., 1981, “Forms of time and of the chronotope in the novel”, The Dialogic Imagination. Austin: University of Texas Press, 84-258.
Baron C., 2011, “Littérature et géographie: lieux, espaces, paysages et écritures”, LHT 8.
Bèdard M., Lahaie C., 2008, “Géographie et littérature : entre le topos et la chôra”, Cahiers de Géographie du Québec, Vol. 52, Nb 147, 391-397.
Blair S., 1998, “Cultural Geography and the Place of the Literary”, American Literary History, 10(3): 544–567. DOI:10.1093/alh/10.3.544.
Brosseau M., 1994, “Geography’s Literature”, Progress in Human Geography, 18(3): 333–353.
Buell L., 2005, The Future of Environmental Criticism. Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination, Malden, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Cooper D., Priestnall G., 2011, “The Processual Intertextuality of Literary Cartographies: Critical and Digital Practices”, Cartographic Journal, Vol. 48, Nb 4, 250-262.
De Vecchis G. (a cura di), 2005, Verso l’altro e l’altrove: Roma, Carocci.
Foucault M., 1984, “Des Espaces autres (conférence au Cercle d’études architecturales, 14 mars 1967)”, Architecture, mouvement, continuité, Nb5, 46-49.
Glotfelty C., Fromm H., 1996, The Ecocriticism Reader, Landmarks of Literary Ecology, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia.
Iovino, S., 2023, Gli animali di Calvino. Storie dall’Antropocene, Rome: Treccani Libri.
Iovino, S. 2016, Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation, London: Bloomsbury
Lefebvre H., 1974, The Production of Space. Donald Nicholson-Smith (trans), Malden: Blackwell.
Lèvy C., Westphal B. (eds.), 2014, Géocritique : État des lieux / Geocriticism: A Survey, Limoges: PULIM, coll. “Espaces humains”.
Moretti F., 1998, Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900, London: Verso.
Papotti D. e Tomasi F. (a cura di), (2014), La geografia del racconto. Sguardi interdisciplinari sul paesaggio urbano nella narrativa italiana contemporanea, Bruxelles, Peter Lang.
Peraldo E., 2016, Literature and Geogrpahy: The Writing of Space throughout History, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8548-7.
Porteous J.D., 1985. “Literature and Humanistic Geography”, Area, 17 (2).
Rosemberg M., 2016, “La spatialité littéraire au prisme de la géographie”. In: Espace Géographique, vol. 45, n. 4, pp. 289-294.
Sharp J.P., 2000, “Towards a Critical Analysis of Fictive Geographies”, Area, 32(3): 327–334. DOI:10.2307/20004085.x.
Scaramellini G., 2008, Paesaggi di carta, paesaggi di parole. Luoghi e ambienti geografici nei resoconti di viaggio (secolo XVIII-XIX), Milano, Giappichelli.
Soja E., 1989, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory, London: Verso.
Tally R., 2011, Geocritical explorations. Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies, New York: Palgrave, Macmillan.
Tally R., 2013, Spatiality, London and New York: Routledge.
Thacker A., 2005, “The Idea of a Critical Literary Geography”, New Formations, 57: 56–73.
Tuan Y., 1977, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Westphal B., 2007, La Géocritique. Réel, fiction, espace, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit.
Important dates:
May 15, 2024: Book Chapter Proposal deadline
May 31, 2024: Acceptance/Rejection Notification
July 31, 2024: Full Chapter Submission
September 30, 2024: Review notification
October 30, 2024: Final version chapter submission
December 2024: Final e-book version available
Submission Procedure:
Interested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by May 15, 2024, explaining the main topic and the objectives of the chapter.
The manuscript proposals (Word or PDF) must be sent to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com
Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by May 31, 2024. After the acceptance notification, authors should submit full chapters by July 31, 2024 formatting their manuscripts following the Editor’s guidelines.
The manuscript word count must be between 4500 – 6000 words. This includes tables, illustrations, references, etc. All submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner.
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Call for Book Chapters
21st Century Landscape Sustainability, Development and Transformations: Geographical Perceptions
Edited by
Giovanni Messina
(Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations, University of Messina, Italy)
Bresena Kopliku
(Department of Geography, University of Shkodra, Albania)
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to inform you that a Call for Book Chapter to the “Geographies of the Anthropocene” book series for the volume titled: “21st Century Landscape Sustainability, Development and Transformations: Geographical Perceptions” (Language: English), edited by Giovanni Messina (Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations, University of Messina) and Bresena Kopliku (Department of Geography, University of Shkodra) is now open.
Scope:
The horizon of environmental sustainability fatally intersects with the geographies of development. In July 2023 the European Parliament gave the green light to the Nature Restoration Law, that aims to restore all natural environments damaged by humans over the course of history. In particular, the law aims to restore 20% of the earth’s territory by 2030 aiming to reach 90% by 2050.
The current globalization process, characterized by indefinite leadership is imposing a new colonial matrix on the development of the territories linked to large financial capital and the hoarding of raw materials. In contrast, the 2030 Agenda, Paris Agreements and the COP promote the essential elements for global governance in our age of technological and ecological disruption.
In general, territories continue to transform due to endogenous and exogenous development drives. The thickening of logistics and transport networks, large commercial hubs, energy supply options, agricultural (i.e., CAP and the EU Green Deal) and industrial policies, tourism constitutes, individually and in a systemic sense, some of the lenses through which the transformative dynamics of territories in the crucial current geopolitical context can be read. In addition, the increasing reach of digital technologies in the spaces and practices of our daily lives, is changing the way we perceive and use landscapes.
These transformations reified in landscape transitions, serve as benchmarks for trans-scale geographical reflections. We welcome abstracts on this topic. Furthermore, call on geographical, and other cognate communities to provide landscape analyses that identify, methodological and/or applied research contributions, problems, practices and trajectories inherent in the transformative dynamics of territories, characterized by a sense of urgency concerning issues of development tempered by the need to change energy and consumption paradigms.
Interested colleagues are invited to submit, by 15 October 2023, abstracts with a maximum of 500 words. The following topics are proposed, but are not limited to:
- Impacts of tourism on urban, coastal and inland landscapes;
- Electricity production infrastructures, concerning sustainability and landscape issues;
- Landscapes of trade and logistics;
- Agricultural landscapes and industrial districts;
- Cultural and naturalistic systems;
- Green and Smart Cities;
- Planning for local development;
- Transnational landscape policies;
- War landscapes;
- Digital technologies and transforming landscapes.
Important dates:
October 15, 2023: Book Chapter Proposal deadline
October 31, 2023: Acceptance / Rejection Notification;
December 31, 2023: Full Chapter Submission;
January 31, 2024: Review notification;
March 31, 2024: Final version chapter submission;
May 2024: Final e-book version available
Submission Procedure:
Interested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by October 15, 2023, explaining the main topic and the objectives of the chapter.
The manuscript proposals (Word or PDF) must be sent to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com
Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by October 31, 2023. After the acceptance notification, authors should submit full chapters by December 31, 2023 formatting their manuscripts following the Editor’s guidelines. The manuscript word count must be between 4500 – 6000 words. This includes tables, illustrations, references, etc. All submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner.
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