{"id":55376,"date":"2026-01-29T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/tarn\/?p=55376"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:56:24","slug":"%f0%9f%93%a2-cfp-cultures-of-waste-bodies-and-biodiversity-oxford-intersections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw\/tarn\/%f0%9f%93%a2-cfp-cultures-of-waste-bodies-and-biodiversity-oxford-intersections\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udce2 CFP: Cultures of Waste: Bodies and Biodiversity (Oxford Intersections)"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”17px” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n

CALL FOR PAPERS<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Bodies and Biodiversity <\/span><\/h1>\n

(Oxford Intersections)<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Ox<\/em>f<\/em>o<\/em>rd Intersections <\/em>are large, peer-reviewed, digital-only works centered around a broad, multi-faceted, and interdisciplinary topic \u2013 <\/span>Cultures of Waste <\/em>in this case. Intersections will showcase original, cutting-edge research on the topic from multiple different perspectives, providing a new space for authors to submit work that draws data, methods, or concepts from more than one field.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cultures of Waste <\/em>examines waste as an urgent environmental and human health crisis, a material and symbolic concept, and\u00a0 a linguistic signifier. For our section on <\/span>Bod<\/em>ies\u00a0 and Biodiversity<\/em>, we are particularly interested in work that explores how waste reshapes relationships between humans, nonhumans, and environments.<\/span><\/p>\n

As anthropogenic matters and orders have come to prevail across the planet, bodies at multiple scales and the relations that sustain them have been profoundly reshaped through disruptive socio-ecological transformations. We conceptualize this transformative force as waste\/wasting: a set of material, political, and relational processes through which certain bodies are rendered useless, pollutable, or disposable, thereby producing waste as detached and devalued beings in material-discursive sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

In such a fraught world, waste across different forms and scales both embodies and disembodies earthly beings. It permeates bodies, alters ways of being and relating, and leads to death at organismic, population, and species levels. The logic of abandonment that underpins this reorganization of the world creates both human and other-than-human waste along classed, gendered, racialized, heteronormative, ableist, and\u00a0 speciesist\u00a0 lines. These dynamics contribute to the erosion of biocultural diversity across species, while simultaneously demanding a rethinking of multiplicity and plurality of bodies and relationalities beyond dominant biodiversity paradigms. At the same time, when situated within multispecies and ecological contexts, waste can also emerge as a site of resistance and regeneration, enabling multispecies coexistence even within ruined worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, we invite interdisciplinary contributions that critically explore the complex relationships between waste, bodies, and biodiversity. We particularly welcome work that focus on less-attended forms and scales of bodies and waste\/wasting, as well as environments across diverse geographical, political, and ecological contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n