Call for Papers
Volume I, Issue 2 (themed issue)
Noesis Literary is a biannual double-blind peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary International Journal in the fields of humanities and social sciences. Published by the Department of English, Nowgong Girls' College the journal is dedicated to promoting Interdisciplinary scholarly research on humanities and social sciences for disseminating critical interventions on issues related to society, culture, and the human condition. The complexities of the contemporary human condition cannot be comprehended from a singular, insular, and totalizing position; rather an Interdisciplinary approach to address the power relation of socio-cultural discursive formations should constitute the central axis of research in the fields of humanities and social sciences. We, therefore, encourage scholars to engage in Interdisciplinary perspectives in areas related to society, culture, human and beyond. We invite scholarly articles from researchers, teachers, and students highlighting high standards of research on areas deserving of critical interventions in contemporary times.
Call For Papers for Noesis Literary Volume 1 Issue 2 (themed issue)
Topic: The Human and the Animal: Perspectives and Positions
Garry Marvin and Susan McHugh in the introduction to their book The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies writes: “Who or what is human? Animal? …In human-animal studies the research and intellectual focus is on how animals figure and are configured in human worlds, but these worlds are formed through the relationships that humans share with animals.” (2014: 01)
The study of animals, given the wide variety of ways in which animals are involved in human societies, and the broad range of controversies that have arisen, is by its very nature interdisciplinary. Animals are crucial to the health and wellbeing of any society, and its representation in various facets of the human world, from its earliest mythologies, the deification of animals, plants and imaginative hybrids in many civilizations, the representation of wildlife in literature, to the study of human-animal relations in subjects such as anthropology, sociology and geography, the position of animals, particularly livestock in the human socio-economy, anthropocentric and biocentric concerns, environmentalism, etc., prove that there are distinctive and interesting things to say in the humanities and social scientific disciplines in this regard. Animals are to be found in virtually all traditions of art and literature, including sculpture, painting, drawing, folktales, poetry, music, and philosophy, where they are used to express complex ideas about being human and being animal, and the relationships negotiated around these conditions. Animals are enrolled in sports, circuses, and are exhibited in museums and zoos. Some animals are brought into our homes and are incorporated into families as pets, while others enter on their own terms and are often treated as invaders. From the 1970s onwards, intellectuals began producing normative theories on the human-animal relations. Human–Animal Studies (HAS) and Critical Animal Studies (CAS) are some of the frameworks in this field. Some of the pioneering works in this area are Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation (1975) and Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights (1983). Other seminal works in this field are Mary Midgley’s Animals and Why They Matter (1983), Keith Thomas’s Man and the Natural World (1983), Margot Norris’s Beasts of the Modern Imagination (1985), Vicki Hearne’s Adam’s Task (1986), Harriet Ritvo’s The Animal Estate (1987), and Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions (1989), to name a few. Scholars of Human-Animal Studies in their study of the human-animal world also take into account their concern for human social justice or for research grounded in issues surrounding race, class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. In other words, human–animal relations are steeped in such power structures. Whereas Human-Animal Studies provide a space for ethicopolitical issues regarding animals, Critical Animal Studies centers on animal rights and veganism. They believe that mistreatment of animals does not result simply from irrational beliefs but instead reflects the social and economic interests of the capitalist ruling class and various animal industries. Keeping into account such theoretical framework this issue shall welcome scholarly research papers related to the following themes:
Animality in literary and cultural texts
Animalism
Wildlife and literature
Anthropocentric and biocentric concerns
Wildlife, livestock, and socio-economy
Human-animal relations
Abolitionism
Veganism
Women, animals and the other
The politics and aesthetics of representing feral life
Animal and film
Animal and visual art
Globalization, marketing, and animal products
Animals and entertainment (circus, zoo, pets etc.)
Human and animal implications of mourning, grief, death, and extinction.
Representation of Animals in Children’s Literature
Animals in Fantasy Literature
Animal Rights
Animal atrocities, slaughtering etc.
Animal and climate change.
However, the above mentioned subthemes are not exhaustive. Scholars may explore other aspects related to the topic for this issue.
Our submission window for Volume 1, Issue 2 is open. The submission window is extended to November 15, 2024.
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