We are inviting chapter abstracts for an edited volume (potentially with Routledge) on Coffee Cultures in South Asia. The proposed volume aims to understand the evolving and emerging coffee cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective. In the process, attempting to curate a scholarship that explores the historical, collective, spatial, cultural, temporal, and transnational aspects of coffee consumption and cultures in the region --- cultures that are being shaped and reshaped by discourses on and practices of new, emerging, and specialty coffee, artisanal brewing, ecological discontents, and digital practices and trends. Submission is through Google Form only

Submission Deadline: 15th January 2026

Notification of Acceptance: 28th February 2026

Submission Type: Abstract of 500 words

Submission Link: https://forms.gle/JvtEdqNUrvgedbus5

Suggestive Themes

• Indigenous Coffee Cultures: Indigenous varieties, colonial histories, contemporary conditions, folklore, regional myths, regional cultures, local equipment, utensils, and brewing tools

• Commodification and Coffee Cultures: Coffee and lifestyle branding, affluence, urban youth coffee cultures, evolving cafe aesthetics, specialty brews

• Cafe Cultures and Emerging Socialities: College cafes, literary circles, emerging spaces, “third wave” cafe cultures and modern convivialities, spatialities

• Coffee Production and Emerging Cultures: sustainable plantation systems, climate change, agrarian labour questions, migrations, alternate coffee cultures, coffee farms and homestays, ecotourism

• Coffee and the City: Urban realities, cosmopolitanism, class identities, cafe history, coffee in city histories, coffee entrepreneurships, coffee labour, urban lores and legends

• Representations of Coffee: Literary representations, pop culture, coffee in regional literatures, films, TV series, OTT, paintings, visual branding and marketing

• Coffee and Digital Cultures: Social media and coffee, coffee as online identity marker, influencer cultures, coffee trends, aesthetic movements, algorithms, visualities