Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Litinfinite Journal

July 2025

(Vol 7 Issue I)

On

Narratives of Nature: Representations of the Environment, Urban Ecology and Planetary Crisis in Indigenous and Postcolonial Literatures

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

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All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2025.

(The Bengali research manuscripts should be accompanied by English title, author(s) details, keywords, abstracts, and references)

We also welcome interviews (3-5 pages, with a 100-word bio of the interviewer and the interviewee) and Book reviews (1200-1500 words) on the given theme. All book reviews MUST have the name of the author, a high-resolution cover photo of the book, year of publication, price, ISBN, and number of pages as per the standard conventions maintained for any book review. It should also contain the complete details of the reviewer/ reviewers including name, an informative title, affiliation, mail i.d., phone number, and address. The font should be Times New Roman, heading 14 points (bold), body 12 font, and single line spacing.

The contemporary ecological crisis demands urgent attention not only from scientists and policymakers but also from the humanities. Literature—especially Indigenous and postcolonial texts—offers vital insights into how communities imagine, inhabit, and resist environmental degradation. This issue seeks contributions that explore narratives of nature and urban ecology in Indigenous and postcolonial literatures, particularly in the context of the Anthropocene, a geological epoch defined by human impact on the planet.

We invite scholars to interrogate how literary works represent the entanglements between environment, colonialism, and global capitalism. Postcolonial and Indigenous writers frequently challenge exploitative relationships to land and offer alternative ecological epistemologies. As Rob Nixon (2011) notes, “slow violence” unfolds gradually and invisibly, disproportionately affecting the world’s most vulnerable. Literature can make such violence visible. Similarly, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2017) emphasizes “land as pedagogy,” asserting the centrality of Indigenous land-based knowledge systems in ecological thought.

Topics for this issue may include but are not limited to:

• Literary representations of land, water, and urban ecologies
• Environmental degradation and climate displacement in postcolonial contexts
• Indigenous resistance and ecological sovereignty
• Gender, ecology, and ecofeminist critiques
• Environmental justice and “slow violence”
• Nature-culture binaries and alternative cosmologies
• Society, Environment and Storytelling
• The Anthropocene narratives in Postcolonial Poetry
• Ecology and precarity of human beings during climate crisis
• Dystopian narratives
• Biopolitics and Literature
• The Ecological Gothic in Literature and Social Science

Let us rethink the environmental imagination through literary inquiry—across geographies, histories, and ecosystems.

Litinfinite (E-ISSN: 2582-0400, CODEN: LITIBR), is an open-access, peer-reviewed, non-profit bilingual Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (member/ indexed in Crossref) indexed in major indexing services including DOAJ, MLA Directory Of Periodicals & MLA International Bibliography, EBSCO, ERIC PLUS, J-Gate, Scilit, JISC-SHERPARoMEO, Ulrichsweb-ProQuest, ROAD- Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, ESJI- Eurasian Scientific Journal Index, WorldCat-OLAC, CiteFactor, Index Copernicus International, Europub, ResearchBib and many other notable indexing services and international library database. 

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We are not accepting poems, stories, or any other creative piece at this moment.