Call for Papers: Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies

Special Issue: ‘Eco-Artivism in Oceania’

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Climate change is the most urgent issue of the present. Numerous studies have shown the impact of global warming on the environment and biodiversity and, especially in Oceania, on people’s political status, their health, cultures and languages. The climate emergency in this region has also prompted the rise of militant artistic and literary forms, often mixing different literary genres and/or arts, drawing on modern technology and Indigenous wisdom. A Special Issue of the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies will be dedicated to Eco-Artivism, a portmanteau word combining art and activism, in this case applied to environmental issues, in order to observe the connections between climate change, Oceanic arts and literatures, multilingualism, multiethnicity and multiculturalism, biodiversity and politics. For the purpose of this issue, the term ‘Oceania’ refers here to Pacific Islands and countries of the Pacific and Pacific Rim (including Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand).

We welcome proposals for articles, interviews and reports to be published in this Special Issue of the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies and pertaining, but not limited, to the following areas of study: 

• Environmental activism in poetry, fiction and drama

• Environmental activism in visual arts and films

• Environmental spoken word poetry and performativity

• Digital/electronic/cyber activism and the environment

• Scholarly environmental activism on paper

• Decolonizing environmental literature

• Indigenous studies and the environment

• Artivism, performance and resistance

• Environmental postcolonial and decolonial narratives

• Artivism and political institutions

• Online activist and/or author communities

• Ghost nets and/or digitalized islands

• Refugee literature

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