Call for Submissions: ‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit’
Overview
The inaugural edition, “Emerging Issues in Environment & Climate: Decolonial Transitions,” amplifies and brings together decolonial research in climate and environment into an accessible and creative issue. The journal aims to make this knowledge accessible to community members through creative and engaging formats, with a focus on amplifying Black and Indigenous researchers.
Theme Overview: ‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit’
Decolonial Transitions emphasizes a focus on the necessary actions and responses of community members to a changing environment. Decolonial transitions focuses on the ways that climate change interacts with colonization, capitalism, extractivism, white supremacy and patriarchy. As a result, this edition explores topics such as Indigenous sovereignty and knowledge, land-based and ancestral connections, community approaches and projects, systemic and bottom-up policy changes and so on! Taking us beyond a focus on decarbonization and into alternative worldviews and tangible actions.
“We believe that an unprecedented opportunity to uncover those alternative, marginalised worldviews lie in the current urgency to transform socio-technical systems towards more sustainable ones. To capture other realities, we need alternative analytical and methodological frameworks that do not silence or narrow down diverse social practices and technologies which constitute the ‘pluriverse’, a Zapatista notion of ‘a world where many worlds fit.”
(Ghosh et al., 2021)
This inaugural edition welcomes submissions from writers, researchers and community members who are exploring creative and rooted responses to the varying impacts of climate change. We also welcome artwork, imagery, poetry and other creative works that fit with the journal's theme.
Submission Guidelines
Deadline: February 15, 2026
Author:
Bio + headshot
Affiliation (if applicable)
Statement on permission to publish
Through the Trees Ethical Guidelines
Review & Agree to Terms of Submission
Submission:
Max: 1000 words / about 3 pages 1.5 spacing
Original work
Sources required
Use of plain language
Emphasizes non-Western, holistic, and community-rooted approaches