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Call for Papers: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change: Is Interdisciplinary Dialogue Possible in Climate Studies? - Volume 7 Issue 1 (2026): February

June 27, 2025

Climate change creates a wide range of research areas in the social sciences, from economic analysis of greenhouse gas mitigation to the structure of international negotiations, from the adaptation and resilience of cities to climate impacts to water and food policies. Although the triadic division of physical sciences, impacts, adaptation and mitigation in the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) assessment reports continues to dominate climate research, the multidimensional impacts of climate change and the complexity of solutions cause the studies carried out within the framework of a single discipline to remain limited.

Accelerating climate change is no longer only a scientific issue, but also a social, economic and political crisis that requires crossing traditional boundaries in different fields of science. Due to its multidimensional causes, impacts, and potential consequences, new directions and issues emerge, and climate change leads to new questions through multidimensional approaches. Especially in the age of poly crisis that signals to multiple crises such as climate change, migration, economic breakdown, political instability, and political conflicts, multidimensional perspective of climate change is necessary to investigate. This has made the climate crisis an increasingly distinctive theme for communication and cultural studies, as well as for literature, art, philosophy, and other humanities.

Call for Articles: Re-visiting ‘Localities’ in the Audio-Visual Field - Volume 6 Issue 2 (2025): June

February 26, 2025

‘Locality’ as a concept can be associated with many things such as a place, a feeling, a community or a collective experience. In some contexts, it evokes ideas about borders, boundaries and constraints or suggests a nostalgic sense of stability and fixity. However, instead of reflecting ideas about confinement, as Doreen Massey describes, localities are about interactions which are much likely constructed by differences and conflicts. They are dynamic meeting points which include multiple internal conflicts that are historically constituted (Massey, 2013; Keyder, 1999: Mills, 2018) and cannot be thought apart from the movements that shape the globalized world. The movements of people, goods, labor, capital, stories and experiences (Appadurai, 1996) are fundamental to understanding the dynamic formations of localities that can only be described as ever changing. To put it differently, although the term ‘locality’ has often been bound up within the duality of the local and the global within the audio-visual content creation, production and consumption, influences, flows, interactions and intersections have in fact been intrinsic to the term.