CfP: Bodies That Breathe – The Politics of Air, Health, and Survival (Volume 1 of the “Earth and Us” Book Series)
Earth and Us is a twelve-volume inquiry into how environmental breakdown and social inequality intertwine, bringing together feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives. The inaugural volume, Bodies That Breathe, explores the politics of air, health, and survival.
We invite essays and creative-critical works (3,000–8,000 words) that engage with race, gender, ecology, and justice, rethinking breath as a site of struggle and connection.
Themes include but are not limited to: air and racial capitalism; polluted intimacies and environmental grief; breathing as resistance; climate anxiety and embodied justice; extractivism and slow violence; breath, ritual, and repair; respiratory illness and labour politics; speculative ecologies of air.
We envision the series as a global project edited by leading scholars in queer ecologies and environmental humanities. Published in print and ebook formats with ISBN, the series reaches every major online bookstore worldwide.