Call for Papers: Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe

Our colleague Dženeta, Ognjen Kojanić, Katarina Kušić welcome abstracts for their Special Issue “Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe: Legacies, Transformations, and Futures”, to be published in Southeastern Europe (Brill/Schöningh). Find the full call here.

Political ecology—understood as an interdisciplinary endeavor to examine and theorize relations between societies and non-human environments—has not been central to scholarly discussions about Southeastern Europe. And yet, there are plenty of rich studies conducted in the region that shed light on the interplay between sociopolitical factors, economic forces, cultural practices, and the ecologies in which humans live. This special issue will bring together scholarship that enriches our understanding of the entangled political, economic, and social-ecological dynamics shaping Southeastern Europe in the hope of unifying a scholarly field within regional studies. We ask: What do the political ecologies of Southeast Europe look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?

Important Dates

• 31 January 2025: Abstract (max. 300 words) and short biography sent to Dženeta Hodžić (dzeneta.hodzic@isoe.de), Ognjen Kojanić (ognjenkojanic@gmail.com), and Katarina Kušić (katarina.kusic@univie.ac.at).

• 28 February 2025: Authors of conditionally accepted contributions notified.

• May 2025: Authors’ “writeshop” in Vienna.

• July 2025: Articles submitted for peer review.

• 2026: Publication of the special issue.