About the Journal
Journal of Ecologies is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research on ecological relations across diverse global social, cultural, and political contexts. The journal focuses on how ecological processes are shaped through everyday practices, community-based initiatives, governance arrangements, and broader socio-political dynamics.
It welcomes contributions that examine ecological issues across a wide range of settings, including Indigenous and place-based contexts, policy and institutional environments, and emerging areas such as digital, narrative, and multispecies relations. The journal provides a platform for empirically grounded and theoretically engaged scholarship that advances critical understanding of ecological change, sustainability, and regenerative processes.
Across diverse global contexts, questions of ecology are no longer confined to environmental change alone. They are increasingly entangled with issues of social life, governance, inequality, and the ways in which communities sustain and reproduce relations with the worlds they inhabit. Yet much of the existing scholarship continues to approach ecology as a singular domain, often technical, bounded, and detached from the plurality of lived realities through which ecological relations take shape.
Journal of Ecologies emerges from the recognition that there is no single ecology, but multiple ecologies, formed through different histories, value systems, and ways of life. These ecologies extend beyond human–environment interactions in a narrow sense; they are also social, political, and cultural, encompassing relations of care, knowledge, and collective existence. Attending to this plurality requires not only expanding categories, but also rethinking how ecological relations are understood, studied, and engaged.
“there is no single ecology, but multiple ecologies, formed through different histories, value systems, and ways of life”
The journal provides a space for scholarship that takes seriously the diversity of ecological worlds and the processes through which they are sustained, contested, and transformed. It is particularly attentive to place-based and community-led practices, where ecological relations are negotiated in everyday life rather than defined solely through formal systems or policy frameworks. At the same time, the journal invites critical engagement with the institutions, discourses, and interventions that shape these relations across scales.
A central concern of the journal lies in how different ecological perspectives encounter one another. These encounters may take the form of collaboration, translation, or co-production, but they may also involve tension, misalignment, or contestation. Rather than seeking to resolve these differences within a single framework, Journal of Ecologies approaches them as productive sites of inquiry through which alternative ways of knowing, organising, and sustaining life can be more carefully understood.
In this context, the journal maintains a particular interest in Indigenous and other place-based ecological practices, not as isolated or static traditions, but as living and evolving relations that continue to shape contemporary debates on sustainability and regeneration. These perspectives are engaged alongside scientific approaches, policy frameworks, and institutional practices, recognising that ecological futures are often shaped through their intersections.
By bringing together contributions from across disciplines and methodological approaches, Journal of Ecologies fosters conversations that move beyond technical solutions and attend to the relational, ethical, and political dimensions of ecological life. In doing so, the journal supports scholarship that is attentive to lived realities, open to plurality, and concerned with how more just and regenerative futures may emerge through diverse ecological relations.