[Commlist] Call for book proposals on AI and environmental justice

*AI and the environment: call for book proposals*

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Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures book series 
<https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/book-series/digital-materialities-and-sustainable-futures> 
invites expressions of interest, followed by full proposals, for 
*full-length original monographs, edited collections and short 
monographs* (“shorts”), addressing urgent questions about the *relations 
between generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the environment*.

The mission of the series is to support critical engagements between 
scholars and artists working critically in the fields of digital and 
environmental sustainability. Taking a decolonial approach, the series 
is committed to fostering interdisciplinary scholarship that shifts the 
conversation about digital environmental sustainability from profit and 
efficiency to environmental harms, and the geographies and violence of 
colonialism, land dispossession, extraction of natural and human 
resources, and capitalism.

Full description of the book series, including our mission, editorial 
board and support for authors, is available *here 
<https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/book-series/digital-materialities-and-sustainable-futures>*. 


We are inviting book proposals exploring the following topics:

  * Generative AI and lived experiences of communities affected by
    mining and/or e-waste
  * AI data centres and environmental justice
  * Environmentally-driven resistance to AI/ AI and earth justice
  * Methodologies and practices of assessing and minimising
    environmental harms of AI
  * Worldmaking: sustainable futures with or without AI
  * Art-led research, inquiries and aesthetic responses to AI and
    environmental harms
  * Decolonising AI and climate change

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*Deadlines*

  * *Friday 16^th January 2026*: please send initial expression of
    interest (up to 2 page-long description of your proposal, including
    the book’s focus, chapter summaries, author(s) info, and estimated
    completion date.
  * Selected authors will be invited to submit a full book proposal and
    offered feedback and support by the series editors in preparation
    for submission of the full proposal (proposal template available
    here
 <https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/book-series/digital-materialities-and-sustainable-futures>).
  * *Monday 2^nd March 2026*: submission of full book proposal to the
    publisher.
  * Full proposals are usually reviewed within 2-3 months, and returned
    to authors with suggested next steps which can include immediate
    acceptance, revision, or rejection.
  * Accepted proposals will receive support from series editors and
    publisher, Emerald Press.

Book series editors: Adi Kuntsman, Erinma Ochu, Liu Xin

Please send your expressions of interest to (a.kuntsman /at/ mmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.kuntsman /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>


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