Concept Note: In 1989, in WLA conference when Glotfelty first used the term ‘ecocriticism ’ and subsequently edited The Ecocriticism Reader with Harold Fromm, the global literary circle had had a new way of discourse. The narrative of the study of the relationship between art/culture/literature and the physical environment had been shifted from the human centric romantic approach to nature to the narrative of the biocentric approach to nature. It started to interrogate the role of human imagination in literature as well. This shift in approach fathered some naturecentric ecological narratives like Deep Ecology. Session’s Deep Ecology for the Twenty First Century, which includes the radical article of Naess, upholds only the right of the physical nature. The radical deep ecologists think that we, all human beings, are responsible for the great d amages done to nature. But the leftist ecocritics do not blame the entire humanity for the great damages done to nature, rather they point out that the domination of nature is particularly done by the capitalists. Where ecocritics like Bryan Norton talks i n favour of broad/ weak anthropocentrism which gives space to the needs and requirements of the human beings keeping in mind the needs of the others, to the deep ecologists the anthropocentric approach should be replaced by bio centric attitude and anythin g that puts the human at the centre should be rejected. For this reason Luc Ferry tags these deep ecologists as ecofascists as they call the human beings for starvation for all the other creatures. Even Indian Environmentalist Ramchandra Guha has argued t hat our approach should not be the approach of distinction between anthropocentrism and biocentrism. Guha points out that the consumption of natural resources is not done by all human beings, but by the First World Countries and by the elites of the Third World Countries, and the growing industrialization which is also linked to the First World Countries. He has also pointed out the difference of the Indian movement concerning nature (i.e. Chipko) from the western countries. While the relationship between h uman beings and nature has always played an important role in art and literature, the ecological awareness of threats to the balance of the biosphere is a relatively recent phenomenon that has penetrated society, culture, art and the literary imagination a like. The notion of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch characterized by the impact of human activities, has become established as a category of the artistic or literary imagination. Nature is no longer an autonomous narrative force, no longer readabl e exclusively as a reflection of the subject’s emotions. After all these new trends in ecological study this book will attempt to highlight a number of concerns, critical approaches and new developments in the artistic/ cultural/ literary study of human and the non-human, human and the nature/ the environment. 

Thrust Areas: The topics for paper proposals can include, but are by no means limited to, the following:   §  Environmental Concerns in Literature  §  Environmental Concerns in Culture  §  Environmental Concerns in Art  §  Environmental Concerns in Education  §  Theory and Praxis of Environmental Studies  §  Natural Resources and the Climate Change  §  The Relationship between Human and Non-human  §  History and the Evolution of the Climate Fiction (Cli Fi)  §  Ecological Study of the Arthropods  §  Contemporary Society, Culture, Population and Environmental Issues  §  Pollution and the Environment  §  Biodiversity and Eco-concerns  §  Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Change  §  Flood, Fire, Earthquake and Pandemic: Disaster and Environment  §  Art, Culture and Literature in the Anthropocene  §  Women/ Women Writers and Environment  §  Queer and the Environment  §  Development and/or Environment  §  Tribal Culture and the Mastery of Environment §  Ethnical Study of Ecology and Literature §  The Politics of Green Aesthetics §  Racism and Environment

Guidelines for Authors: · The original, scholarly, relevant, and unpublished chapters in English Language are inv academicians and research scholars. · The manuscript should be 30004000 words as per MLA 8 · The contributors are advised to send a short bio thnote (150Style. ited from the 200 words) along with the manuscript.