Book Series MORE-THAN-HUMAN HUMANITIES
A Routledge Focus Series
Series editors: Cecilia Åsberg and Marietta Radomska
About the book series:
If the humanities is to be defined at large by its concern with the understanding and self- reflection of the human species, the more-than-human humanities book series aims to attend to human differences entangled with environmental justice, information technologies, AI, synthetic biology, surveillance systems, species extinction, and drastic ecological change. More-than-human humanities faces many urgent societal challenges of today’s world.
This Focus book series publishes short and concise pieces of original (or revised) research in the areas of feminist posthumanities, environmental humanities, and inventive thought from media and science studies aiming to decolonise the human-centred humanities. This wide and versatile understanding of the human, embedded in a more-than-human world, involves recognising differences within the human species. The scope of the book series takes advantage of and contributes to the great scholarly and increasingly artistic and public interest in issues of co- existing in a more-than-human world. Each short book volume deals with a novel insight, a specific angle or case, while contributing to the series, where each individual book is in implicit conversation with one another.
This Focus series meets up with the novel surge in interdisciplinary humanities, art and social sciences for more-than-human research. The type of books that this series publishes are authoritative overviews of emerging topics and exemplary case studies, lengthier rewrites of previously published research pieces – perhaps for a broader audience, responses to developments and debates, as well as explorations of theoretical concepts and ground-breaking methodologies. The books give social issues a philosophical slant in the meeting between art, humanities, and sciences. They promise surprises as well as emerging new schools of thought. The book length is 20-50, 000 words, including references and potential index.
The series offers both established and up-and-coming scholars cutting edge opportunities to publish with a quick turnaround. The specific short format of the volumes, drawn from the heat of intellectual encounters and ongoing dialogues, is perfectly suited for fields of investigation undergoing rapid development. The concise format allows for deep-seated conversations in a timely fashion.
More-than-human humanities draws attention not only to the creativity and potentiality of this reinvention of arts and humanities, but also to that which delimits or wounds conditions of life on earth. Importantly, it addresses the question of how we may learn to live with those wounds and limitations in everyday practice. Postdisciplinary practices and innovative methodologies are especially crucial in this regard, and in high demand. This is evidenced in many new research areas, synergies, and convergences of fields today. There is a thirst for more-than-human insights and praxis in fields like feminist posthumanities, queer death studies, critical animal studies, plant theory, digital environmental humanities, field philosophy, decolonial studies, medical humanities, bioart and eco-art, transgender studies, multispecies humanities and extinction studies.
Accordingly, this book series on more-than-human humanities focuses on such critique and creativity of contemporary scholarship as it is about to take shape. The books in this Focus series provide insights into the state-of-the art within new humanities research, set in the midst of a changing world.
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST:
If you are interested in publishing your work within this book series, please get in touch with the series editors: cecilia.asberg[at]liu.se and marietta.radomska[at]liu.se.
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