Call for Chapters: 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.

Proposal deadline: 30 November 2025
Full chapter due: 7 January 2026
Publication: February 2026
APC: INR 5,999 / USD 75 (waivers available for unfunded or economically marginalised scholars)

Email submissions and queries to editor@sturges-mcgregor.com.

The Series Editor, Dr Meghna Prabir, can be contacted at meghna.prabir@iimbx.iimb.ac.in.

Join 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.

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