CFP: Open Library of Humanities Special Collection – Waste Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion Abstract Deadline 5 Jan 2018

Grace Halden and Alice Burks are editing an Open Library of Humanities Special Collection entitled Waste: Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion inspired by September’s conference ‘Waste: A Symposium’ (details here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/waste-a-symposium). You do not need to have attended the conference to submit an abstract/paper.

Submission topics for the special collections may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Literatures of waste (e.g. fiction about waste, recycling, printing)
  • Eco-criticism (e.g. exploration of the Anthropocene)
  • Pollution and toxicity (e.g. physical / metaphorical, environmental, social)
  • Junk, dirt and rubbish (e.g. the abject, hygiene, creation of)
  • Decomposition and decay (e.g. illness, corpses, physical ‘wasting’)
  • The temporality of waste (e.g. ‘wasting time’, aging and depletion)
  • The geography of waste (e.g. LULUs, derelict spaces, wastelands)
  • Human waste / Wasted humans (e.g. bodily matter, biopolitics of disposability)
  • Petrocultures and industrial waste (e.g. extraction, environmental damage of)
  • Economies of waste (e.g. commodification, the cost of waste, disposal industries).

Submission details

Attached is the official call for articles for the Open Library of Humanities Special Collection. Research articles should be approximately 8000 words in length, including references and a short bibliography. Submissions should comprise of:

  • Abstract (250 words) – due January 5th, 2018
  • Author information (short biographical statement of 200 words) – due January 5th, 2018
  • Full-length article (8000 words) – due April 30th, 2018.

The OLH is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded open-access journal with a strong emphasis on quality peer review and a prestigious academic steering board. Unlike some open-access publications, the OLH has no author-facing charges and is instead financially supported by an international consortium of libraries.

Please read the attached call for papers in detail.

All the best,

Dr Grace Halden and Alice Burks