Department of English, SKBU

Some glimpses of a lecture by Sahitya Akademi Prize winner Dr. Mrinmoy Pramanick.

An invited lecture by Sahitya Akademi Prize winner Dr. Mrinmoy Pramanick.

Last Date for submission of abstracts - 15th July, 2024.

Snippets from today's international colloquium on "Building Nation Through Literature"

All are welcome !!

Call for Paper
for
IASA, Eastern Region
10th International Conference
25 and 26th February, 2023

For details, please visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vVDg5mW2HyZMjGq6dUbfoXwv7neV3jxp/view?usp=drivesdk

Call for Papers for January 2023 Issue (Vol. 3, Issue – I)

Akademos – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary and Culture Studies

(Special Issue on Postcolonial Environmental Humanities)

Last Date of Submission – 30th December, 2022

Dipesh Chakrabarty, one of the well-known Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies Historians in his recent works concerns with the question of climate change and ecological damage perpetrated by humans on earth. While he feels the need to have a planetary history imagined beyond the understanding of earth as globe inhabited by mankind, he does not propose to do away with the human identities and differences such as class, caste, race, gender, ethnicity etc. that shape the world. Breaking the conceptual separation of the human and environmental history (as Lawrence Buell or Amitav Ghosh would propose in their own ways), the discipline of environmental humanities examines the ways in which environment and ecological concerns are imagined in human societies through language, material practices and ethical/political concerns. One of the primal form of exploitation that has been under consideration of humanities discipline since the second half of the twentieth century is the colonial mode of power where a few nation-states colonized most of the earth and used it for their own development and comfort. The passing of imperial power nonetheless left traces of colonialist power in the postcolonies in the form of internal colonialism, where the same logic of extraction is multiplied to subjugate and abuse various marginalized groups within the erstwhile colonies. The logic of colonialism parallels the primitive accumulation of capital which observes the colonized spaces as means of subsistence and use. Environmental thinking of Marx as John Bellamy Foster would show talks about colonizing the environment including other species for the consumption of mankind, as a primary form of colonization – that of man on the rest of the Earth.
Therefore, one may associate the predicament and collective future of climate change on Earth as having a connection with colonialist form of reason and exploitation of the ‘other’ justified by that reason. The present issue of the journal tries to look at various literary as well as cultural imaginations on the question of ecology and environment in the context of the postcolonial world. While philosophically it opens up the relationship between ecology and anthropocentrism in general, more particularly the issue would intend to look at specific forms of representation and the crisis of representation of the question of environment in the context of the postcolonial world. The issue would not only explore how political regimes and various axis of power based on caste, class, race, ethnicity, gender etc. may have a connection with anthropogenic ecological activities on Earth but also how climate change and ecological damage may be incumbent upon various marginal groups and result in the political crisis of climate refugees or disenfranchisement of the life-world of the indigenous people of a country cohabiting earth in their own ways for centuries.
The themes and issues expected to be covered (but not necessarily confined to) in this issue would include:
Environmental Humanities and the Representation of the Non-Humans (Animals, Plants, Objects)
Anthropocene and Literature
Marxism and Environmental Criticism/ Capitalocene/ Eco-Marxism
Ecology and Indigenous Population of Postcolonial States (Tribes and Castes)
Various Ecological Movements in Postcolony and Their Representations
Environment and Various Political Regimes
Environmental Criticism and Translation Studies
Environmental Humanities and Various Literary Movements (Romanticism, Modernism etc.)
Environmental Humanities and the Discourse of Science/Technology
Environmental Humanities and Identity Politics (Race/ Caste/ Gender/ Ethnicity/ Sexuality/ Disability etc.)
Environmental Humanities and Migration
Environmental Humanities and Globalization
Eco-feminism
Research Articles (5000 to 7000 words) or Book Review (within 2000 words), along with Abstract, a brief Bio-Note and 5 Keywords in .doc or .docx format, may be submitted to [email protected] for publication as attachments of the mail within 30th December,2022.
If you are submitting directly in ‘Submit Paper’ Section of the Journal, then also you are requested to mail that in the mentioned address.
Please, format your paper following the link
https://journal.skbu.ac.in/files/uploads/1653384297300.pdf
Please do not send pdf files.
Submission will imply that the article is original and unpublished and not being considered for publication elsewhere.
Please go through the Guidelines and Publication Policy of the journal before submission by clicking the following link:
https://journal.skbu.ac.in/arts/english1/Publication_Policy

Call for Papers for January 2023 Issue (Vol. 3, Issue – I)

Akademos – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary and Culture Studies

(Special Issue on Postcolonial Environmental Humanities)



Last Date of Submission – 30th December, 2022



Dipesh Chakrabarty, one of the well-known Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies Historians in his recent works concerns with the question of climate change and ecological damage perpetrated by humans on earth. While he feels the need to have a planetary history imagined beyond the understanding of earth as globe inhabited by mankind, he does not propose to do away with the human identities and differences such as class, caste, race, gender, ethnicity etc. that shape the world. Breaking the conceptual separation of the human and environmental history (as Lawrence Buell or Amitav Ghosh would propose in their own ways), the discipline of environmental humanities examines the ways in which environment and ecological concerns are imagined in human societies through language, material practices and ethical/political concerns. One of the primal form of exploitation that has been under consideration of humanities discipline since the second half of the twentieth century is the colonial mode of power where a few nation-states colonized most of the earth and used it for their own development and comfort. The passing of imperial power nonetheless left traces of colonialist power in the postcolonies in the form of internal colonialism, where the same logic of extraction is multiplied to subjugate and abuse various marginalized groups within the erstwhile colonies. The logic of colonialism parallels the primitive accumulation of capital which observes the colonized spaces as means of subsistence and use. Environmental thinking of Marx as John Bellamy Foster would show talks about colonizing the environment including other species for the consumption of mankind, as a primary form of colonization – that of man on the rest of the Earth.

Therefore, one may associate the predicament and collective future of climate change on Earth as having a connection with colonialist form of reason and exploitation of the ‘other’ justified by that reason. The present issue of the journal tries to look at various literary as well as cultural imaginations on the question of ecology and environment in the context of the postcolonial world. While philosophically it opens up the relationship between ecology and anthropocentrism in general, more particularly the issue would intend to look at specific forms of representation and the crisis of representation of the question of environment in the context of the postcolonial world. The issue would not only explore how political regimes and various axis of power based on caste, class, race, ethnicity, gender etc. may have a connection with anthropogenic ecological activities on Earth but also how climate change and ecological damage may be incumbent upon various marginal groups and result in the political crisis of climate refugees or disenfranchisement of the life-world of the indigenous people of a country cohabiting earth in their own ways for centuries.

The themes and issues expected to be covered (but not necessarily confined to) in this issue would include:

Environmental Humanities and the Representation of the Non-Humans (Animals, Plants, Objects)
Anthropocene and Literature
Marxism and Environmental Criticism/ Capitalocene/ Eco-Marxism
Ecology and Indigenous Population of Postcolonial States (Tribes and Castes)
Various Ecological Movements in Postcolony and Their Representations
Environment and Various Political Regimes
Environmental Criticism and Translation Studies
Environmental Humanities and Various Literary Movements (Romanticism, Modernism etc.)
Environmental Humanities and the Discourse of Science/Technology
Environmental Humanities and Identity Politics (Race/ Caste/ Gender/ Ethnicity/ Sexuality/ Disability etc.)
Environmental Humanities and Migration
Environmental Humanities and Globalization
Eco-feminism
Research Articles (5000 to 7000 words) or Book Review (within 2000 words), along with Abstract, a brief Bio-Note and 5 Keywords in .doc or .docx format, may be submitted to [email protected] for publication as attachments of the mail within 30th December,2022.

If you are submitting directly in ‘Submit Paper’ Section of the Journal, then also you are requested to mail that in the mentioned address.

Please, format your paper following the link

https://journal.skbu.ac.in/files/uploads/1653384297300.pdf

Please do not send pdf files.

Submission will imply that the article is original and unpublished and not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Please go through the Guidelines and Publication Policy of the journal before submission by clicking the following link:

https://journal.skbu.ac.in/arts/english1/Publication_Policy

SKBU :: Akademos: Akademos, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary and Culture Studies is a Bi-Annual, Peer-Reviewed journal with ISSN 2583-2875, published in the months of December and June every year. Submitted articles will be selected only on the basis of merit by a process of Double-Blind Single Peer Review...