Call for Papers

Cosmopolis is looking for articles, papers, and documents that can illuminate the following topics. Please send you proposals (a short sketch is enough) to the editor (cosmopolis.rev@gmail.com).

Total word count for complete text: 5.000–10.000 words (special agreements can be made).

Language: English (US or UK standards) or French. Possibly Spanish.

Formatting: Chicago Style. See info on submissions in “author guidelines” on the website.

Suggested topics:

• The advent of the Anthropocene and its consequences
• The overlapping of nature and culture as autonomous concepts, if not distinct realities.
• The paradigm shift in disciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches
• The enduring cultural factors V. the universal nature of mankind in the global management of world issues
• Economic constrains of development v. the need to limit climate change
• Green Growth vs Degrowth
• The imperative of growth, the increase of inequalities and conflicting cultural views as global political deadlocks
• The future of mankind v. the final collapse of civilisation
• New concepts: ecocide, 6^th extinction, co-extinction and survival of the ecosystem
• Deconstruction and decolonizing the Academy
• Universalism and patriarchy in history – where is the universal?

Geopolitics

• Resilience of states, return of empires
• Democracy, autocracy and plutocracy: sources and traditions
• Individual and collective rights in different cultures
• Growth vs. degrowth, which paradigm?
• Increasing inequalities and contradictory cultural visions as global political impasses
• The future of humanity or the collapse of civilisations
• Ecocide and new concepts in international law