Announcements

The next issue of Moment Journal aims to examine one of the most critical debates of our time: the Anthropocene. Introduced by scientists Crutzen and Stoermer in the late 1980s, this concept describes the transformative and destructive impact of human activities on living and non-living beings on our planet within the framework of a historical period. As the crises deepen, this debate has resonated beyond the sciences and has spawned alternatives. There are many different uses of the concept today, notably Moore's “capitalocene” and Haraway's “chthulucene” and “plantationocene” debates. While the effects of the crises we are experiencing are affecting our planet, human and non-human beings, societies, and cultures more and more every day, the questions around this concept offer a rich field of research and discussion for the social sciences and humanities.

As Moment Journal, we ask “Where is our planet, people, societies, and cultures going with the deepening crises in the Anthropocene era?” Where are we taking non-human beings or non-human animals with us? Where are the environmental and ecological movements going in this process, where are current crises coming, and where is the idea of ecological justice coming to the fore? What are the latest developments in environmental and ecological studies? In this special issue, we aim to include original research articles that address the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Anthropocene.

We look forward to your work on the multi-layered effects of the Anthropocene on social life, cultural practices, and human-nature relations. We are open to your empirical and theoretical studies, book reviews, essays and interviews from all fields of social sciences and humanities on the Anthropocene and related issues. We accept papers in Turkish or English.

Our theme suggestions for this issue - but not limited to these titles - are as follows:

• Social inequalities and environmental justice in the Anthropocene
• Urbanization and ecological transformation
• Anthropocene and gender
• Indigenous communities and ecological knowledge systems
• Technology, digitalization and environmental impacts
• Consumption culture and ecological footprint
• Media, social media and environmental communication
• Risk society and new uncertainties
• Sustainability discourses and practices
• Traces of the Anthropocene in art and literature
• Anthropocene in popular culture, cinema and TV series
• Ecological and social crises and social movements
• Non-human beings and our planet
• Nonhuman animals in the Anthropocene and critical animal studies
• Artificial intelligence and the Anthropocene
• Climate crisis and social adaptation
• Criticisms of the Anthropocene and alternatives to the Anthropocene
• Politics in the Anthropocene - approaches and movements
• Philosophical responses to the Anthropocene
• Multiple crises and the Anthropocene

You can send your texts for our new issue, in which we will not accept non-theme articles, via DergiPark until March 16, 2025.

ARTICLE SUBMISSON

Theme editors:
Mehmet Bozok and Burak Kesgin