Submission guidelines

Submission guidelines

The series is currently calling for full book proposals. Reach out to the series editors or Commissioning Editor to submit your proposal.

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See our guidance on how to write a proposal


Please note proposals must be written in compliance with Emerald’s principles of generative AI usage which are outlined here. We do not accept AI-generated proposals. 

The series welcomes monographs and edited collections on topics arising at the intersection of elements such as:

  • Digital materialities
  • Histories, economies and politics of digital environmental harms
  • Interdisciplinary and anti-colonial approaches to digital environmental sustainability
  • Decolonising digital scholarship and practice
  • Affirmative actions, reparations and anti-colonial digital solutions
  • Green computing, sustainable design and design justice
  • Research and creative practice on digital sustainability in the arts and digitisation in creative industries
  • Corporate accountability
  • Digital technologies and environmental activism in the Global South
  • Methodologies and approaches to decarbonisation of digital communication
  • Interdisciplinary methodologies in digital media, environmental science, and computing
  • Centring digital environmental harms in sustainability practice and policy making
  • Lived experiences of social marginalisation and digital environmental harms
  • Digital technologies and environmental justice

To submit a proposal to this series, or for an informal chat to discuss a potential proposal, please contact the series editors or Commissioning Editor via email:

Adi Kuntsmann
Manchester Metropolitan University
[email protected]

Erinma Ochu
The University of the West of England
[email protected]

Liu Xin
Karlstad University
[email protected]

Katy Mathers
Senior Commissioning Editor, Emerald
[email protected]

Editorial team

Editorial team

About the Editors

Series Editors

Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, the coordinator of Digital Sustainability and the Environment HUB, and the Digital Politics research cluster at Manchester Metropolitan University. Kuntsman has published three monographs and five co-edited collections, with additional books currently in the pipeline. Having worked for over two decades on the topics of migration, LGBTQ studies and digital politics, Kuntsman has recently turned to explore the environmental impacts of digital technologies and their intersections with cultural imaginaries, digital justice, global politics and everyday life.

Erinma Ochu (they/them) is Associate Professor in Immersive Media and a member of the digital cultures research centre at The University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Building on a background in neuroscience, storytelling and emerging technologies, Erinma’s transdisciplinary research is focused on generating a planetary agenda, Post Carbon Futures, which critiques Extended Reality as a space to re-examine possibilities for life, co-existence and what it means to feel alive in a warming world.

Liu Xin (she/her) is a senior lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University. She has published articles in journals such as Feminist Review, Australian Feminist Studies, Journal of Environmental Media, Parallax, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, Media Theory Journal, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equality. Her recent research projects are located in the intersection of feminist theory, environmental humanities, critical race studies, science and technology studies, social theory and digital media research.
 



Editorial Board

  • Alenda Y. Chang, Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
  • Dani Admiss, Independent curator, researcher and educator
  • Benedetta Brevini, Associate Professor of political economy of communication, University of Sydney
  • Gabrielle Jenks, Digital Director, Factory International
  • Grace Akese, Geographer and discard studies scholar, University of Bayreuth
  • Kamya Ramachandran, Founder-Director of BeFantastic Singapore
  • Martin Juckes, Earth Observation Scientist and Head of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis for the Atmosphere (CEDA)
  • Tao-Tao Chang, Head of Infrastructure at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC-UKRI)
  • Rahul Mukherjee, Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies, Penn U
  • Xiaowei Wang, PostDoctoral Fellow, UCLA Gender Studies, Center on Race & Digital Justice

Calls for submissions

Taking a decolonial approach, Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures develops an interdisciplinary field that shifts the conversation about digital environmental sustainability from profit and efficiency to environmental damage, and the geographies and violence of colonialism, land dispossession, extraction of natural and human resources, and capitalism.

Aims and scope

Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures develops an interdisciplinary field that shifts the conversation about digital environmental sustainability from profit and efficiency to geographies of in/justice and the colonially and decolonisation of digital scholarship and practice. As digital economies grow at an unprecedented speed the links between global environmental degradation and digital industries become more apparent as does their intersection with global environmental injustice. However, when these questions are addressed they are typically framed as problems of cost and efficiency where the environment is simply seen to provide material condition for the operation of digital economy.

Books in this series directly acknowledge an important and pressing issue: that the materiality of digital technologies can inflict substantial environmental damages: the ever-growing extraction of resources needed to produce digital devices; the toxicity of e-waste; and the rapidly increasing energy demand, while the the geography of digital environmental harms is unevenly distributed and is often aligned with geographies of colonialism land dispossession extraction of natural and human resources and the violence of industrialisation and capitalism.

The series launch webinar can be viewed here: Series Launch Webinar

The mission of the series is to support critical engagements between scholars and artists working in the field of digital and environmental sustainability. The series welcomes monographs and edited collections on topics arising at the intersection of elements such as:

  • Digital materialities
  • Histories, economies and politics of digital environmental harms
  • Interdisciplinary and anti-colonial approaches to digital environmental sustainability
  • Decolonising digital scholarship and practice
  • Affirmative actions, reparations and anti-colonial digital solutions
  • Green computing, sustainable design and design justice
  • Research and creative practice on digital sustainability in the arts and digitisation in creative industries
  • Corporate accountability
  • Digital technologies and environmental activism in the Global South
  • Methodologies and approaches to decarbonisation of digital communication
  • Interdisciplinary methodologies in digital media, environmental science, and computing
  • Centring digital environmental harms in sustainability practice and policy making
  • Lived experiences of social marginalisation and digital environmental harms
  • Digital technologies and environmental justice

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