Call for Papers: Spring Series 2026

The Trouble with Time:
Temporalities of Climate Change

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026

The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí (MoMA)

Climate change has brought renewed urgency to how we understand and engage environmental and political temporalities. Through what temporal horizons does the political discourse of climate change operate? Does the Anthropocene lens foster a “gaze from a vertiginously distant future” (Nordblad 2021: 333) that disengages us through temporal detachment? How do widely circulating climate temporalities encounter culturally embedded concepts of time, and to what effect (e.g., Marquardt & Delina 2021)? This issue of Weather Matters invites submissions that attend to the questions of conjunctures and disjunctures of climate change temporalities. We welcome pieces that explore the varied, overlapping, and entangled dimensions and frameworks of time as they are implied and enacted through our changing climate.

Possible topics might include, but not limited to: 

  • Reflections on how timescales can be experienced differently (e.g., by the more-than-human)

  • Case studies on the effectiveness of climate policies over time

  • Meditations on the slow violence of extractive projects

 

How to submit

We invite contributions from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, geography, the environmental humanities, and other social sciences. We are keen to highlight the research and writing of graduate students as well as postgraduate and early career researchers. We especially welcome contributions from Queer, BIPOC, and other underrepresented scholars.  

The deadline for submissions is Sunday, May 31, 2026. Pieces should be a maximum of 1500 words (not including references), and we encourage contributions in a range of formats and media. Please submit at least one image that can be used as a thumbnail. For further instructions, see https://www.weathermatters.net/submission-instructions

Please share submissions with the Weather Matters editorial team at contact.weathermatters@gmail.com

Marquardt, Jens, and Laurence L. Delina. 2021. "Making time, making politics: Problematizing temporality in energy and climate studies." Energy Research & Social Science 76: 102073.

Nordblad, Julia. 2021. “On the Difference between Anthropocene and Climate Change Temporalities.” Critical Inquiry 47(2): 328-348.