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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear CSAA Colleagues,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please find attached and below a CFP '</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Eco-horror’s Minor
Intimacies: Affective Embodiments, Ecological </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Desires'</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Eco-horror’s Minor Intimacies: Affective Embodiments, Ecological </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 16pt; font-style: italic;">Desires</span></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Issue editors: Lynn Kozak and Alanna Thain (McGill University) Publication date: Winter 2026</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">300 word proposals due: June 15, 2024 to corerisc@gmail.com</span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Horror is an affect, genre and epistemology relevant to our current condition, signaled by a resurgent interest in horror media in popular culture and in high art. A re-coding in horror’s
language is widely perceptible across media that serve as a site for commentary and intervention </p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">around contested social issues. Beyond their capture in genre, horror affects and tendencies increasingly modulate our relation to the social and environmental crises of our day. For
this special issue of </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Somatechnics
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">we propose a focus on minoritarian eco-horror, asking how horror’s complicated affects and intimacies allow for critical reworkings of negative experiences to tell other stories:
of persistence, mutation, adaptation or survivance. This approach uniquely foregrounds dynamics of power that are obscure(d), relational, temporally unruly and entangled with the legacies of colonialism, exploitation, technology and questions of scale, from
the long arc of the cosmos to the intimacy of every breath. Beyond the oppositional framework that sees nature as a site or source of exploited, vengeful, or sensationalist horror, how might minoritarian eco-horror operate along other axes of relation, intimacy
and otherness? </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Attending to eco-horror affects amplifies two tendencies of genre media that are especially relevant for considering the unevenly shared and embodied risk that is at the heart of eco-horror’s
concerns. First, it foregrounds how horror media "does things to bodies." Horror's exceptional ability to foreground immersive, leaky, and pervasive relations of bodies and spaces produces a critical and alternative epistemology of sensations. Second, genre
films produce temporal plurality through recirculation, where genre’s narrative or structural logic of the same is wound up with an unruly thread of differential repetition. Reading the horror genre through its mobilizing tendencies brings out this aspect
of minor difference too often dismissed, taking seriously qualitative changes of feeling, sensation and other metrics beyond “progress”. Eco-horror affects tell other stories of social and environmental crisis, shifting the enervations of media fatalism to
different spectrums of activism, ambiguous agency and affective encounters. </span>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">We seek work that attends to the risky business of eco-horror and the relations it animates. We welcome work that addresses media and performance, fiction and documentary, platforms and
content, from perspectives that foreground minoritarian lifeworlds. Our key question is: what does embodied survival look and feel like in minoritarian eco-horror?
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-weight: 700">Abstracts due:
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">June 30, 2024 to
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; color: rgb(6.670000%, 33.330000%, 80.000000%)">corerisc@gmail.com</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">, subject line ECOHORROR.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-weight: 700">Full Papers due: </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Jan 15, 2025<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-weight: 700">Expected publication:
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Winter 2026
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Editors:
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Lynn Kozak
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">is an associate professor at McGill University. Recent work includes book chapters and articles on contemporary North American horror-hybrid television shows including
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Evil</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">,
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Lucifer, Hannibal, Stranger Things</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">,
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">iZombie</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">, and
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">The Exorcist</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-style: italic">Alanna Thain
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">is associate professor of cultural studies and world cinemas at McGill University in Montreal, and former director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. She
directs the Moving Image Research Lab, dedicated to the study of the body in moving image media, as well as the research team CORERISC, on epistemologies of embodied risk. Her most recent projects include
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; color: rgb(6.670000%, 33.330000%, 80.000000%)">The Sociability of Sleep
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">and Light Leaks: Outdoor Cinema and the Ecological Art of Encounter.
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Kozak and Thain are both members of the research collective COREìRISC (Collective for research on epistemologies of embodied risk), looking at minoritarian horror media and performance.
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