CFP: Special Issue on ‘Critical Forest Studies’ (Australian Journal of Environmental Education)

28 Mar CFP: Special Issue on ‘Critical Forest Studies’ (Australian Journal of Environmental Education)

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), John Ryan (The University of Notre Dame AU), Mark Harvey (University of Auckland), Sarah Barns (RMIT), Jelena Aleksic (RMIT), Gideon Boadu (RMIT)

Aim of the Special Issue:

Critical Forest Studies (CFS) is an emerging field of research dedicated to critical, creative, and relationally embedded practices with forests. As the first Special Issue dedicated to CFS, we invite contributions which gather the multiplicity of approaches emerging at the intersect of environmental education, Indigenous and decolonial studies, ecological philosophy, critical plant and animal studies, regenerative arts and design, more-than-human anthropologies and geographies, the new life sciences, critical posthumanities, and more.

Timeline:

-Call for papers: March 2025
-Abstracts due: 15th April 2025
-Email abstracts (300-400 words) to david.rousell@rmit.edu.au
-Full Manuscripts due: 15th August 2025
-Submit to AJEE (See author instructions, 6 – 7000 words)
-Publication of Special Issue: Volume 42 (manuscripts published on FirstView asap)