Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/culture) invites submissions for a special issue entitled Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada: Myths, Media, and Reality.

Indigenous peoples in Canada are often misrepresented in media, portrayed through colonial stereotypes of headdresses, teepees, and romanticized connections to nature. These reductive images erase complex identities and silence Indigenous voices, particularly on urgent issues such as environmental justice. In the post-truth era, characterized by blurred facts and emotional misinformation, these distortions become even more dangerous, obscuring the essential role of Indigenous communities in ecological preservation and land rights.

We invite contributions that critically examine how media, fiction, and cultural texts misrepresent or silence Indigenous voices, as well as efforts to reclaim narratives. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Media silence and distortion of Indigenous environmental issues

• Stereotypes in fiction, non-fiction, and visual media

• Psychological impacts of misrepresentation, including CPTSD

• Indigenous resistance and narrative reclamation in media

• Environmental issues as reflections of systemic injustices

• Countering post-truth narratives with Indigenous perspectives

• Indigenous languages and epistemologies as tools for resisting post-truth discourse

• Intersections of environmental justice, Indigenous feminism, and media representation

• Science denial, environmental racism, and their consequences for Indigenous communities

Submissions may analyze documentaries, news reports, oral histories, and literature, using frameworks such as post-truth, postcolonial studies, trauma studies, and environmental humanities.

Submission details:

• Submissions will be collected between September 1 and October 31, 2025 via the online system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/culture/ (choose article type: Research Article: Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada).

• All contributions will undergo peer review.

• Please consult the Instructions for Authors before submission.

• Authors without access to publishing funds may request discounts or fee waivers from the Managing Editor, Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com).

For questions about this issue, please contact the editors:
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi (kamelia.talebiansedehi@uniroma1.it) or Paula Wieczorek (pwieczorek@wsiz.edu.pl).