UnderCurrents

Independent Academic Journal of Critical Environmental Studies.

From the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change (EUC) at York University!

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Call for papers for scholarly and creative submissions has been extended!

You have until December 1st to submit your work!
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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 -- https://t.co/Sk5cVBlPuu.

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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” -- https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW

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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 -- https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW.

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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 -- https://t.co/Sk5cVBlPuu.

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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 -- https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW.

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@wesbrunson '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 https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW.

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Book launch last night at York University. Great to see another book in the @Global_suburbs book series published. Congrats to the editors and authors! #peripheralcentralities @rkeil @CITY_at_YorkU @YorkUEUC

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UnderCurrents is looking for Ad Hoc Peer Reviewers!
This role is vital to the journal, as the foundation for academic publishing.

If you're interested check out the benefits, qualifications, and more!
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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 https://t.co/Sk5cVBlPuu.

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@sophia_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 https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW.

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

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@scrybabybaby’s “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” -- https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW

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@SilvaeSilvaF 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 -- https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW

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We are thrilled to announce that “Memories and Futurities,” our 21st volume, is out now! You can access the volume online at https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW. And free physical copies will soon be available in the HNES lounge, York University Keele Campus.

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TOMORROW -- “Each retouched frame can only be viewed in a fugitive moment. The sequence provokes the viewer to waltz around the scene, back and forth, through impressions of time.” Afterglow by @AngelaLeaTupper in vol. 21, Memories and Futurities -- https://t.co/Sk5cVB4eCW

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The deadline is fast approaching for creative and scholarly submissions to the 22nd edition of Undercurrents!

Oct.1, 2022!! Only 8 days away!

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Are you a YorkU student?
Looking to be more connected with the York community?
Wanting experience working on an academic journal?

We have just the spot for you! We are recruiting for the publishing house.
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Are you a graduate student at YorkU and interested in being involved in an independent journal?

UnderCurrents is looking to recruit individuals to help with the journal!

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Call for Papers for the 22nd edition of UnderCurrents is open!🎉

Scholarly and Creative submissions due Oct. 1st, 2022
Book Reviews due Jan. 15, 2023

Find out more:
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