[Air-L] Call for book proposals: AI and environmental justice

[Adi Kuntsman]

𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬

𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐹𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 book series 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://shorturl.at/FhBDR

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

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨:
- F̲r̲i̲d̲a̲y̲ ̲1̲6̲t̲h̲ ̲J̲a̲n̲u̲a̲r̲y̲ ̲2̲0̲2̲6̲: 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://shorturl.at/FhBDR).
- M̲o̲n̲d̲a̲y̲ ̲2̲n̲d̲ ̲M̲a̲r̲c̲h̲ ̲2̲0̲2̲6̲: 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