Call for Chapters: Global Literatures, Local Crises: Migration, Climate, Conflict, and Cultural Response

2025-12-21

This edited volume explores how literary and cultural texts engage urgent global crises—migration, climate disruption, war, displacement, and inequality—through locally grounded narratives and ethical frameworks. The collection prioritizes Global South and decolonial perspectives, highlighting literature’s role in witnessing, resisting, and reimagining futures.

Suggested Topics

  1. Crisis, Witnessing, and Ethical Representation in Global Literatures

  2. Migration Narratives, Border Regimes, and the Politics of Belonging

  3. Climate Humanities and Environmental Storytelling across Regions

  4. War, Conflict Media, and Cultural Memory

  5. Displacement, Refugee Literatures, and the Aesthetics of Survival

  6. Trauma, Testimony, and Narrative Repair

  7. Global South Perspectives and Decolonial Literary Futures

  8. Diaspora, Language, Translation, and Crisis Storytelling

  9. Indigenous Ecologies, Land, and More-than-Human Narratives

  10. Literature as Cultural Response: Resistance, Solidarity, and Imagination

Submission Guidelines (via online Form)

  • Abstract: 100–120 words

  • Chapter length: up to 4,500 words (including references)

  • Methodologies welcome: conceptual, empirical, pedagogical case studies, reflective practice

  • Contributors may include: faculty, researchers, editors, and advanced graduate students

Publication Information

STAR Scholars Press will publish this volume as part of the AI and Education / Humanities Futures book series. Open-access options and publication fee waivers or discounts may be available.

Contact 

Please send abstracts via online form and inquiries to publications@starscholars.org
Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Full chapters due: August 15

Dr. Adele Newson-Horst, Professor, Department of English and Language Arts, Morgan State University, USA — Adele.NewsonHorst@morgan.edu