| Dossier | Continuous Publication | Vol 6 · No 12 · 2025
Feeling the world: materialities and affects in resistance practices today
Deadline: September 15, 2025
Publication date: Continuous Publication (July-December 2025)
Guest Editors:
Laura Quintana Porras [Universidad de los Andes],
Nicolas Lema Habash [Universidad de los Andes],
Camilo Del Valle Lattanzio [Universidad Friedrich Alexander de Erlangen-Núremberg]
Submissions should be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese: guidelines
Info: resistances@religacion.com
General Section, Book Review Section: Permanent Call
Title: Feeling the world: materialities and affects in resistance practices today
The end of the world is a fatality that the powerful of the world seem to impose on us, and in the face of which some think that there would not be much to do. However, for a long time, many peoples and communities, devastated by extractive interventions linked to colonial projects, have fought against the destruction of their ways of life, their ecosystems, their world. The extinction we face today is different because the survival of many species, including humans, is at stake; but, in any case, it is tied to multiple forms of destruction that have already occurred and against which many efforts have already been deployed to sustain life and rebuild it. We must pay attention to these efforts and build alliances among the strategies that today, in different parts of the world, are multiplying to stop or, failing that, slow down the collapse.
Given this orientation, we are interested in articulating practices of decolonial ecology that in the Caribbean and Latin America are being carried out against economic interventions and extractive epistemologies, with literary stories, artistic experiences and academic research -in all the diverse and possible crossings between them- that are demanding us to rethink the scenario of ecological devastation that we inhabit today and the ethical-political responsibility that is incumbent upon us in front of this. We link all these diverse stakes with the notion of “ecocriticism”.
As we know, this interdisciplinary field emerged, since the 1980s, as an academic praxis that seeks, through the analysis of traditions, history and human cultural production, to detect discourses and practices that help to understand or, at best, to find critical tools to discursively counteract the disaster that has led to negationism, environmental destruction and cultural anthropocentrism. In this issue, we want to put in dialogue approaches to different cultural and aesthetic traditions, as well as academic research with poetics and concrete interventions by artists and activists, that revolve around how to narrate and imagine the paths that remain to rethink ourselves in the face of the end of human time.
Special topics of interest: aesthetics, ecocriticism, resistance, affect, ecology.
