𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗔 𝗛𝗼𝗮𝘅 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀?

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀

𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗔 𝗛𝗼𝗮𝘅 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀?

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹:
Journal of Political Power

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿:
Taylor & Francis Group

𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
30 June 2026

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

The Journal of Political Power invites contributions for its Special Issue, Politics of Sustainability: A Hoax for Power or a Real Crisis? This interdisciplinary issue critically examines sustainability as both a global imperative and a contested political construct.

In the Anthropocene era, sustainability has become a dominant narrative across development, governance, education, media, and public policy. However, critical scholarship increasingly questions whether sustainability genuinely addresses environmental crises or serves as a mechanism for reinforcing existing structures of power, inequality, and control.

The special issue seeks to foster scholarly dialogue on how sustainability is conceptualized, measured, governed, and contested in contemporary societies. It particularly encourages research that interrogates the intersections of environmental urgency, political economy, global inequalities, and alternative knowledge systems.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Sustainability and neoliberalism
• Eco-capitalism and global branding
• Greenwashing in policy and media
• Colonial legacies in environmental governance
• Climate metrics and data colonialism
• Cultural narratives of climate crisis
• Climate justice and global inequalities
• Indigenous sustainability paradigms
• Global South versus Global North eco-politics
• Ethics of consumption and waste
• Utopian and dystopian imaginaries of sustainable futures

𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀

The Special Issue welcomes interdisciplinary contributions employing diverse methodologies, including:

• Policy analysis and institutional critique
• Discourse analysis of media, literature, and cultural texts
• Environmental ethnographies and fieldwork-based studies
• Statistical modelling of sustainability indicators
• Comparative ecological histories and case studies
• Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁?

Researchers and practitioners from Political Science, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Media Studies, Literature, Philosophy, Anthropology, History, Development Studies, Economics, and related disciplines are encouraged to contribute.

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀

• Submit an abstract of approximately 500 words by 31 March 2026.
• Email abstracts to: sustainabilitypolitics@gmail.com
• CC: managingeditorjopp@gmail.com
• Subject Line: JOPP SI: Politics of Sustainability
• Selected authors will be invited to submit full papers by 30 June 2026.
• Full papers should be approximately 8,000 words and follow the Harvard referencing style.

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Accepted papers will be published in the Autumn 2027 issue of the Journal of Political Power.

𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

• Dr Parvanshi Sharma, Chandigarh University
• Dr Aanchal Arora, Lovely Professional University
• Dr Divya Anand, IILM, Lodhi Road
• Dr Harmeet Singh, Cluster University

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