A call for articles, reviews, interviews or creative interventions is open until April 15th, 2026, for a monographic issue of the From the European South (FES) journal called On Catastrophe: Visual Reflections and Practices, with Gaia Giuliani (IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) and Farah Polato (Università di Padova) as guest editors.

This call aims to engage with the fertile mutual contamination generated within artistic and media production by the encounter between environmental approaches to the Human and Social Sciences, and postcolonial and decolonial reflections and practices that traverse Political Ecology, Cultural, Gender and Queer Studies, and Indigenous, Black and Critical Race Studies.

Within this framework, the centrality of notions such as ‘body’ and ‘territory’ as material realities and sites of asymmetric, physical and epistemic occupations, is accompanied by a vision of society and human history as necessarily environmental, that is, always originating within the interdependence between the human and the non-human.

Proposals for articles (500 words), reviews, interviews or (yet unpublished) creative interventions are to be sent to Farah Polato (farah.polato@unipd.it) and Gaia Giuliani (giuliani.gaia@gmail.com) by April 15, 2026. Accepted proposals shall be made known by May 15. The deadline for article submission is September 15 and for submitting accepted peer-reviewed articles is January 15, 2027.

FES is a transdisciplinary open access scientific e-journal of postcolonial humanities “exploring the various facets of the postcolonial across the wide spectrum of the humanities”.

Carefully read the full call text for other relevant information and suggested bibliography.