In a special issue of Lagoonscapes, editorial members from the Confluence of European Water Bodies will bring together original journal articles and essays. We are looking forward to contributions from the perspectives of 1) Law 2) Academia 3) Artistic Practice and 4) Activism.
To this special issue, we welcome analytical, empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions from various disciplines and theoretical approaches, such as gender studies, ecofeminism, history, geology, Indigenous studies, decolonial theories, environmental humanities, feminist posthumanities, feminist animal studies, new materialism, and feminist STS etc. We welcome contributions in the form of research articles, essays, artworks, opinion pieces, book reviews, and further comments thereon in keeping with editorial policy.
We invite contributions focusing on different aspects of Rights of Nature and Water Bodies in relation to the following themes (but not restricted to):
- Ecological justice
- Vulnerability
- Resilience
- Care and common survival
- Degrowth
- Ecological grief
- Hydrofeminism
- Embodiment
- Ecohealth
- Institutions
Info & planning
- Deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words + author bio of ca. 100 words): August 25 2025
- Deadline for articles: 1 February 2026
- Envisaged publication date: 15 March 2026
Abstracts should be submitted to: info@ambassadevandenoordzee.nl and / or martin.hultman@chalmers.se