Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World
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Call for Papers
Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World
Journal: Atlantic Studies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 01 September 2027
Atlantic Studies invites high-quality submissions for its Special Issue on Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World.
About the Special Issue
This interdisciplinary Special Issue explores the historical, cultural, and environmental significance of plant movement across the Atlantic World. It examines how botanical knowledge, colonial expansion, trade, scientific exploration, and cultural exchange shaped the movement, adaptation, and representation of plants across continents and oceans.
The issue welcomes contributions that investigate the intersections of botany, history, ecology, literature, medicine, and indigenous knowledge, while highlighting the role of plants in shaping empire, environmental transformation, and global exchange.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may include, but are not limited to:
Colonial exploration, trade, and transoceanic plant exchange
Botanical expeditions and scientific networks
Indigenous, enslaved, and local botanical knowledge
Plantation systems and the Plantationocene
Botanical classification and knowledge circulation
Medicinal plants, pharmacology, and environmental history
Ecological impacts of introduced and invasive species
Plant mobility beyond the Columbian Exchange
Literary, historical, and cultural narratives of plants
Gender, botany, and environmental humanities
Preferred Article Types
The journal welcomes:
Original Research Articles
Interdisciplinary Studies
Historical and Cultural Analyses
Literary and Environmental Humanities Research
Submission Information
Abstract Deadline: 01 June 2026 (500 words + one-page CV)
Manuscript Deadline: 01 September 2027
Selected authors will participate in a two-day workshop in Madrid (11–12 March 2027).
Draft articles (maximum 10,000 words) are due by 15 February 2027.
All manuscripts will undergo the journal's standard peer-review process.
Planned publication: 2028.
Special Issue Editors
Prof. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Juliane Braun, Auburn University, USA
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