Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities
Recent Submissions
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The Invisible Labour Loops Project as Portal—Framing Mother Labour through Animation
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Jen McGowan is an artist, educator, and mother living in the unceded Coast Salish territory currently known as Vancouver, Canada. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and is a recent graduate of the MFA program at ... -
Holding On and Letting Go: Material, Grief, and Care
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Alexandrya Eaton is a contemporary Canadian artist whose practice involves painting, textiles, and performance. Eaton has had over fifty solo exhibitions of her work and her paintings can be found in numerous public and ... -
Grief Ecologies
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)prOphecy sun (PhD) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother of three. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the ... -
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(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Sheri Reda is a writer, educator, and performer whose stories and poems have most recently appeared in Dear Human at the Edge of Time (Paloma Press, 2023), Ecocene Journal (2023), The Healer’s Burden (University of Iowa ... -
Book Review: The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Andrés Ayala-Patlán is a doctoral student in English at the University of Washington, where he teaches courses in composition and exposition. His research focuses on the intersections of decolonial studies and the ... -
Book Review: Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Sinan Akıllı is an associate professor of English at the Faculty of Humanities, Cappadocia University. His research interests include ecocriticism, critical animal studies, and posthumanism. Most recently, he has published ... -
Buffer Forever
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Loading is an unfinished collection of looping GIFs, each work a meditation (and nostalgic dedication) to the affect of loading in the context of digital computing. The work is an output of a month-long collective exercise ... -
A Pandemic Pregnancy: A Postpartum MFA
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Birth is not merely that which divides women from themselves, so that a woman’s understanding of what it is to exist is profoundly changed. Another person has existed in her, and after their birth they live within the ... -
Value Studies
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)In Avery Gordon’s Ghostly Matters (1997), they argue that “to study social life one must confront the ghostly aspects of it” (7). And while hauntings in social realities, as Gordon describes, can call attention to what ... -
Concentrated Fragmentations
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Care is often associated with maternal bodies because they provide soothing or comforting actions. However, care work is complex and goes beyond the body and is critically important for every one, species, and thing (de ... -
Banyans of Bidar
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Jhilam Chattaraj is an academic and poet based in Hyderabad, India. She has authored the books, Noise Cancellation (2021) Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and the New Writers (2018) and When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays ... -
Parallel Lines
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Jhilam Chattaraj is an academic and poet based in Hyderabad, India. She has authored the books, Noise Cancellation (2021), Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and the New Writers (2018), and When Lovers Leave and Poetry ... -
This was a Forest Once
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)and the land remembers, its bitterness distilled in the snap of a sage leaf: sap fusing to skin, pungent, tacky blood that sticks in the vein. Did you know sage leaves grow silvered hair? To deflect, blur—the sun that ... -
Review of Eco-performance, Art, and Spatial Justice in the US, by Courtney B. Ryan
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Ryan, Courtney B. 2023. Eco-performance, Art, and Spatial Justice in the US. New York: Routledge. -
Review of Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, edited by Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Wojciech Małecki, and Jèmeljan Hakemulder
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Wojciech Małecki, and Jèmeljan Hakemulder. 2023. Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press -
Review of River Woman, by Katherena Vermette
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)Métis writer Katherena Vermette’s River Woman (2018) is an evocative poetry collection that delves into the profound connections between water and human experience. Through her verses, Vermette personifies rivers, portraying ... -
Weighed Down: Informal Recycling as Shaped by Multiple Layers of Heaviness
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024)The proliferation of waste is a global problem. In South Africa, only 10% of all waste materials are recycled. Of those, almost 90% are recycled in the informal sector. This article draws on data collected through participant ... -
Regarding Your Visual Attitude, and Mine—Embodied Vision in a World of Screens
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2023)My current expanded cinematic project, Regarding Your Visual Attitude, and Mine (2021– present), aims to deliver a physically-led shift into a way of regarding the world that is alive and full of possibility. At times ... -
Wâhkôhtowin: Gestures in Kinship, Reciprocity, and Rematriation
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2023)In my practice, the notion of immersing myself in the natural environment and creating a bond is vital. More than ever, our current world climate motivates me to explore the urgency to prioritize my relationship with the ... -
Impressionable Impressions: Believing, Existing, Feeling
(Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2023)Memories are a series of connected experiences and events. Encapsulated, fragmented, and narrative, each thread shapes the foundation of our personhood and transports us to particular moments in time. Some memories are ...