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Aims & Scope

Consider the wild diversity of cicadas, their natural histories, their overlapping lives, and their deep connections to human communities. This is why we chose the cicada for our journal name. Cicadas, as an orienter to our journal, serve to remind us in each issue that we are grounded in curating creative scholarship and interdisciplinary pieces that reflect place-bound and place-celebrated representations of belonging to and dwelling in the natural spaces provided by our Earth.

Thus, the Cicadian strives to represent the sensuous, the academic, the place-bound and inherent diversity in scholarly work that includes academic pieces, scholarly creative works, creative non-fiction, poetry, visual arts, photography, drawing, painting and soundscapes. We welcome narrative, ethnographic, arts-based, advocacy and ecological scholarship that centers upon relationships to the natural world.

We intend the whole of work published here to challenge regimented structures that serve to further atomize the world. For this reason, you will see that we support diversity across and within disciplinary approaches. Stylistically you will see a multiplicity of formatting and reference styles, recognizing the diverse range of disciplines welcome here.

All submissions must be original work, not published elsewhere, and center upon relationships to nature and/or natural spaces. Submissions can explore nature-based relationships, stories of place, belonging and dwelling, and experiential and embodied scholarship rooted in relationships with natural spaces.

We aim to bring together in each issue a community of artist scholars and scholarly artists. A space for the intermingling of research, art, humanities and science. We aim to publish works that represent how resilient communities are diverse communities. We aim to represent diversity of thought and expression as the bedrock of the Cicadian.