CURRENT ISSUE
Ecozon@ vol 14, no. 2 features a special section on the “Contemporary Collapse: New Narratives of the End,” introduced and edited by Sara Bédard-Goulet and Christophe Premat. The seven English-language essays shift the focus from “Western” and anthropocentric narratives of collapse to encompass alternative visions such as circular time and indigenous perspectives. The general section includes five essays, four in English and one in Spanish, that also range across continents and feature provocative variations of non-human and bodily entanglements.
13.2: Ecozon@ vol. 13, no. 2 features a special section the “Postcolonial Nonhuman,” introduced and edited by “Erin James, Cajetan Iheka, and Juan Ignacio Oliva. The six essays address a wide range of postcolonial environments with a focus on the devastation wreaked by colonialism on both human and nonhuman lives entangled together. The general section includes essays on the postcolonial, posthuman, and nonhuman voices from trees and fungi to extractivism in Miyazaki’s animated films.
Ecozon@ vol. 13, no. 1 features a special section on “Hip Hop Ecologies,” introduced and guest-edited by Timo Müller and Alain-Philippe Durand. These English-language essays range from Alaskan Indigenous Hip Hop, built environments, and eco hip hop activism. The general section includes two urban-focused essays on cli-fi and Black Metal, and two rural-focused essays on Ireland and China.
This issue focuses on the North, both as perceived by visitors and as experienced by Arctic peoples, particularly in the face of current climatic, economic and political challenges. This section is complemented by a photograph series and creative writing on the North.
This issue is devoted to the Mediterranean world from a complex, de-essentialised and de-romantised perspective. It is viewed as a locus of intercultural connections and a crossroads of socio-environmental emergences. But particularly poignant at this moment is that socio-environmental perspective with the recent tragic mining accident: may this issue serve as a homage to the mining industry and its workers, reflected so aptly by the images by Carma Casulá from another mine, “Ojos Negros.”
Ecozon@ vol. 3, no. 2 opens with a special section “The Invention of Eco-Futures”, presenting 8 essays introduced and guest-edited by Ursula Heise. The essays (which are this time all in English) examine British, North American, European and Spanish novels and films, demonstrating the richness and subtlety of their contribution to environmental discourse. The general section contains an interview with Richard Kerridge, one of the founders of ASLE-UKI, and two essays. The first of these examines posthumanism in a French crime novel; the other reads the work of the Portuguese poet A.M. Pires Cabral through an ecocritical lens. The issue contains creative writing, art work, and half a dozen book reviews.