Calls For Papers

Worldwide Waste is a fully Open Access and Scopus rated peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal, presenting innovative humanities, arts and social science research on waste from around the world.

NO AUTHOR FEES guaranteed through 2027.

We are now seeking high quality submissions from across the humanities and social sciences. Submissions are also welcomed from disciplines in which waste-related research is currently under-represented, such as literature, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts. Worldwide Waste provides a scholarly platform for Open Access scholarship that critically interrogates the cultural, social, economic, and political systems within which waste is created, managed, and circulated.

As well as peer reviewed original research articles (6,000–9,000 words), Worldwide Waste has introduced several new categories of editor-reviewed submission: 

Visual essays: 4–10 images with accompanying text (maximum 2,000 words) that form a narrative focused on those living with, transforming, managing, or struggling against waste.  

Waste art: 1,000–2,000 word essays that critically engage with cultural productions that use or represent waste (broadly conceived).

Residua: 1,500–3,000 word essays highlighting practices that diverge from or transgress the logics of systems reliant on discard and disposability.

Reviews and Reappraisals: 1,000–2,000 word reviews of recent books, films, or exhibitions (or reappraisals of how less recent waste-related works and cultural productions resonate today).  

Proposals for all these categories should be addressed to the editor and deputy editor before submission.

Prospective authors of these editor-reviewed submission categories should consult this guidance.