Focus and Scope
Journal of Ecologies is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that advances the study of ecologies as plural, lived, and relational processes across diverse global social, cultural, and political contexts. The journal adopts a plural understanding of ecologies, recognising that relations between humans, more-than-human worlds, and environments are shaped by distinct histories, value systems, and ways of life.
The journal provides a platform for scholarship that engages with ecological relations as dynamic and situated processes rather than as fixed or purely technical systems. It welcomes work that explores how these relations are formed, negotiated, and reconfigured through everyday practices, community-based initiatives, institutional arrangements, and broader socio-political transformations.
While the journal maintains a particular interest in Indigenous and place-based ecological practices, it does not treat these as bounded or isolated domains. Instead, it invites contributions that examine how diverse ecological perspectives intersect, interact, and at times come into tension with scientific approaches, policy frameworks, and development interventions.
The journal encourages contributions in areas including, but not limited to:
| 01 | Human–environment relations and political ecologies |
| 02 | Indigenous, place-based, and relational ecological practices |
| 03 | More-than-human relations, multispecies worlds, and environmental lifeworlds |
| 04 | Regenerative approaches to land, food systems, and biodiversity |
| 05 | Food sovereignty, seed systems, and community resilience in ecological contexts |
| 06 | Gender, care, and the everyday practices that sustain ecological life |
| 07 | Community governance, policy processes, and institutional dynamics in ecological contexts |
| 08 | Law, recognition, and the politics of Indigenous rights |
| 09 | Public discourse, policy critique, and global governance in ecological contexts |
| 10 | Social movements, resistance, and ecological struggles |
| 11 | Critical perspectives on sustainability, extractivism, and development |
| 12 | Digital, affective, and narrative dimensions of ecological relations |
| 13 | Memory, culture, and representation in ecological worlds |
| 14 | Knowledge systems, epistemologies, and the ethics of ecological transformation |
We welcome submissions that are empirically grounded and theoretically engaged, as well as work that draws on participatory, practice-based, and transdisciplinary approaches. Contributions may employ qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods, provided they offer clear and rigorous insights into the processes under study.
By bringing together a plurality of perspectives, Journal of Ecologies contributes to broader scholarly conversations on how ecological relations are shaped, contested, and reconfigured, and how pathways of social transformation toward more just and regenerative futures emerge across diverse contexts.