UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies

11/19/2022

Benjamin J Kapron explores how Gerald Vizenor’s concept of survivance may lift animals out of human exceptionalist trappings regarding agency and futurity in “Storying Futures of the Always-Already Extinct”; part of Memories and Futurities -- http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

11/16/2022

Kelly King’s “Unsettling the Homestead” works from personal genealogy and Mi’kmaq histories of the Stewiacke Valley, using artforms that are common in Nova Scotian settler homes, to “interrogate what it means to be a settler on Indigenous land” -- http://www.yorku.ca/currents

11/13/2022

Madeleine Lavin draws on assemblage theory, environmental temporalities, and a metaphorical new materialism in her “unspoken poems for a passed lover,” part of UnderCurrents vol. 21, Memories and Futurities -- http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

11/10/2022

Dr. Naomi Norquay unearths Indigenous, Black settler, White settler, and more-than-human beaver histories of her family property in Artemesia Township, Ontario, in “Rumination on a ‘fisherman’s path’: Land as palimpsest,” in our 21st volume -- http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

11/07/2022

Using macro photography of Catalpa leaves, Oonagh Butterfield attends to different scales and tempos of multispecies life in “Vascular Memory,” part of UnderCurrents vol. 21, Memories and Futurities -- http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

11/04/2022

Wesley Brunson’s “Dragonfly” disrupts linear notions of time in a poetic attempt at answering a question that Elizabeth Povinelli asks in the book Geontologies: ”What does life desire?” Check it out at http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

11/02/2022

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Become an Ad Hoc Peer Reviewer for UnderCurrents 2022-10-31 We invite you to review for UnderCurrents: journal of critical environmental studies. Peer reviewers are the foundation of academic publishing. Our journal would not be able to produce high-quality content without reviewers providing timely...

11/01/2022

Renowned feminist scholars Angela P. Harris, Usha Natarajan, and Michelle Murphy discuss Critical Theory for the Future in UnderCurrents vol. 21, Memories and Futurities. Check it out at http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

10/29/2022

Sophie Jaworski's “Requiem to window sealant” is an autobiographical exploration of chemical sensitivity that shows how our senses can produce important knowledge about relational and disabling consequences of petrochemical worlds. Check it out at http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

10/26/2022

Physical copies of UnderCurrents vol. 21, Memories and Futurities, are now available in the HNES lounge, York University Keele Campus!

10/24/2022

Jaz Papadopoulos’ “Water Memory” is an “invocation of intimacy partnered with grief . . . encourag[ing] relationships (with the self and with others) that not only allow, but revel in, the fullest embodiment of the body’s experience” -- http://www.yorku.ca/currents.

10/21/2022

Dr. Fernando Silva E Silva investigates how fiction can bring about new worlds when it plays, messes, and invents with chronotopes—combinations of time, space, and subjectivities—in UnderCurrents vol. 21, Memories and Futurities -- http://www.yorku.ca/currents

10/18/2022

We are thrilled to announce that “Memories and Futurities,” our 21st volume, is out now!

You can access the volume online at http://www.yorku.ca/currents.
And, if you’re on York University’s Keele Campus, free physical copies will soon be available on our stand in the HNES lounge.

We deeply appreciate the efforts, insights, and patience of all the contributors and Editorial Collective members who helped bring this long-delayed volume together!

09/27/2022

Extended deadline for submissions for the 22nd volume!

Did you want to submit to UnderCurrents but get held up with other priorities? Now is your chance!

We have extended the deadline for scholarly and creative submissions until December 1st, 2022.

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Call for Submissions: UnderCurrents volume 22 2022-08-03 View this Call for Submissions as a PDF From the depths of Dante’s Inferno to Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, subterranean and subaquatic environments have often been depicted as repositories of primordial forces and abiding...

09/22/2022

The deadline for scholarly and creative submissions for the 22nd edition of UnderCurrents is coming up!!

Get your submissions in by Oct. 1st, 2022!

09/16/2022

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