We are now taking submissions for our second issue. Send us your ethnographic writing, photo essays, memoirs and other forms of non-fiction that speak to the theme from different perspectives, geographies and disciplines for Issue 02: Caste and Climate Justice.
We are now taking submissions for our second issue. Send us your ethnographic writing, photo essays, memoirs and other forms of non-fiction that speak to the theme from different perspectives, geographies and disciplines for Issue 02: Caste and Climate Justice.
We are now taking submissions for our second issue. Send us your ethnographic writing, photo essays, memoirs and other forms of non-fiction that speak to the theme from different perspectives, geographies and disciplines for Issue 02: Caste and Climate Justice.
Deadline for submission:
5th June 2025
Deadline for submission:
5th June 2025
Amid multiple heat waves across the country, reminiscing about what the weather used to be like 20 years ago is an exercise in wistful nostalgia for people sitting in air-conditioned offices, having arrived there in air-conditioned cars from air-conditioned homes. As climate change intensifies, so does the stark difference between those shielded from the climate crises, and those whose underpaid, daily labour sustains that very comfort.
Bordered by tall mountains and a long coastline, India is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The country now faces a volatile mix of rising temperatures, droughts, cyclones, floods, and sea-level rise — each claiming more lives and livelihoods every year. In 2024 alone, heatstroke is suspected to have killed 733 people across the country. Beyond headline-making disasters, the effect of changing weather patterns on food production, if left unaddressed, will be devastating in the coming decades. But in a society shaped by caste hierarchies, who bears the brunt of this burden?
Caste was, and continues to be a defining force in determining one’s occupation, landedness, ecological interactions, and socio-economic standing. The community you're born into often dictates your relationship to the land and its contiguous resources, whether your presence is deemed “legal,” and whether you have recourse when displaced. In the past decade alone, large development projects, industrial land grabs, and resettlements in the face of ‘natural’ disasters have displaced a number of indigenous communities, and protests against them rarely make mainstream news.
These vulnerabilities are not an accident, they are built into a system that renders certain lives as expendable over the convenience and security of others. In order to understand the impact of climate change in India, we must recognise how it is inextricably tied to caste, class and gender hierarchies. This issue intends to explore these overlaps. We invite pitches for the second issue of Fourteen Magazine titled “Caste and Climate Justice”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to-
Adivasi and Dalit ecologies
Urban inequalities, wage labourers, migrant workers, gig workers
Caste-based segregations of land, water, and natural resources
Acceleration of air and water pollution; emergent vulnerabilities and culpabilities
Acceleration of ‘natural’ disasters; frequent forest fires, landslides, cyclones, and their interrelation with local communities.
Ecological and human costs of conservation and eco-tourism
Disparities and crises within agricultural ecosystems; effects on nature of excessive chemical usages; landless laborers; monocropping; droughts
Human-animal relations and conflicts in the face of shifting dynamics
The disappearance of forests, forest dwellers, and indigenous practices of sustenance and conservation et al.
What are we looking for?
Ethnographic writing, photo essays, memoirs and other forms of non-fiction that speak to the theme from different perspectives, geographies and disciplines. We also welcome multimedia submissions, writing that uses previously collected data to write a new piece, or previously unpublished work that you think fits the topic.
Final piece should be 2500 - 4000 words long
We prefer previously unreleased work, but are also open to accepting previously released work as long as the authors own the copyright and provide appropriate attribution.
How to pitch
Send your pitch as a Microsoft Word file in an attachment to fourteenthemagazine@gmail.com
Text should be in a readable 12 point font (such as Arial/Times New Roman/Calibri) with 1.5 - double spacing
Emails should be titled “Issue 02 pitch - Your Name”
You can tell us a little about yourself in the body of the email, along with background on what led you to write this essay
Two writing samples, preferably in the same category of non-fiction writing or using similar methodology.
What to include in your pitch
Your pitch should be 300-500 words long, and include the following:
Give background on the topic chosen
What will you be exploring within the topic
What is the methodology you will use
What perspective do you add to this topic that is especially important
Remuneration
We pay selected contributors between INR 15,000 - INR 20,000 depending on the form and length of the piece.
Deadline for submitting pitches is 5th June 2025.
Amid multiple heat waves across the country, reminiscing about what the weather used to be like 20 years ago is an exercise in wistful nostalgia for people sitting in air-conditioned offices, having arrived there in air-conditioned cars from air-conditioned homes. As climate change intensifies, so does the stark difference between those shielded from the climate crises, and those whose underpaid, daily labour sustains that very comfort.
Bordered by tall mountains and a long coastline, India is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The country now faces a volatile mix of rising temperatures, droughts, cyclones, floods, and sea-level rise — each claiming more lives and livelihoods every year. In 2024 alone, heatstroke is suspected to have killed 733 people across the country. Beyond headline-making disasters, the effect of changing weather patterns on food production, if left unaddressed, will be devastating in the coming decades. But in a society shaped by caste hierarchies, who bears the brunt of this burden?
Caste was, and continues to be a defining force in determining one’s occupation, landedness, ecological interactions, and socio-economic standing. The community you're born into often dictates your relationship to the land and its contiguous resources, whether your presence is deemed “legal,” and whether you have recourse when displaced. In the past decade alone, large development projects, industrial land grabs, and resettlements in the face of ‘natural’ disasters have displaced a number of indigenous communities, and protests against them rarely make mainstream news.
These vulnerabilities are not an accident, they are built into a system that renders certain lives as expendable over the convenience and security of others. In order to understand the impact of climate change in India, we must recognise how it is inextricably tied to caste, class and gender hierarchies. This issue intends to explore these overlaps. We invite pitches for the second issue of Fourteen Magazine titled “Caste and Climate Justice”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to-
Adivasi and Dalit ecologies
Urban inequalities, wage labourers, migrant workers, gig workers
Caste-based segregations of land, water, and natural resources
Acceleration of air and water pollution; emergent vulnerabilities and culpabilities
Acceleration of ‘natural’ disasters; frequent forest fires, landslides, cyclones, and their interrelation with local communities.
Ecological and human costs of conservation and eco-tourism
Disparities and crises within agricultural ecosystems; effects on nature of excessive chemical usages; landless laborers; monocropping; droughts
Human-animal relations and conflicts in the face of shifting dynamics
The disappearance of forests, forest dwellers, and indigenous practices of sustenance and conservation et al.
What are we looking for?
Ethnographic writing, photo essays, memoirs and other forms of non-fiction that speak to the theme from different perspectives, geographies and disciplines. We also welcome multimedia submissions, writing that uses previously collected data to write a new piece, or previously unpublished work that you think fits the topic.
Final piece should be 2500 - 4000 words long
We prefer previously unreleased work, but are also open to accepting previously released work as long as the authors own the copyright and provide appropriate attribution.
How to pitch
Send your pitch as a Microsoft Word file in an attachment to fourteenthemagazine@gmail.com
Text should be in a readable 12 point font (such as Arial/Times New Roman/Calibri) with 1.5 - double spacing
Emails should be titled “Issue 02 pitch - Your Name”
You can tell us a little about yourself in the body of the email, along with background on what led you to write this essay
Two writing samples, preferably in the same category of non-fiction writing or using similar methodology.
What to include in your pitch
Your pitch should be 300-500 words long, and include the following:
Give background on the topic chosen
What will you be exploring within the topic
What is the methodology you will use
What perspective do you add to this topic that is especially important
Remuneration
We pay selected contributors between INR 15,000 - INR 20,000 depending on the form and length of the piece.
Deadline for submitting pitches is 5th June 2025.
Amid multiple heat waves across the country, reminiscing about what the weather used to be like 20 years ago is an exercise in wistful nostalgia for people sitting in air-conditioned offices, having arrived there in air-conditioned cars from air-conditioned homes. As climate change intensifies, so does the stark difference between those shielded from the climate crises, and those whose underpaid, daily labour sustains that very comfort.
Bordered by tall mountains and a long coastline, India is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The country now faces a volatile mix of rising temperatures, droughts, cyclones, floods, and sea-level rise — each claiming more lives and livelihoods every year. In 2024 alone, heatstroke is suspected to have killed 733 people across the country. Beyond headline-making disasters, the effect of changing weather patterns on food production, if left unaddressed, will be devastating in the coming decades. But in a society shaped by caste hierarchies, who bears the brunt of this burden?
Caste was, and continues to be a defining force in determining one’s occupation, landedness, ecological interactions, and socio-economic standing. The community you're born into often dictates your relationship to the land and its contiguous resources, whether your presence is deemed “legal,” and whether you have recourse when displaced. In the past decade alone, large development projects, industrial land grabs, and resettlements in the face of ‘natural’ disasters have displaced a number of indigenous communities, and protests against them rarely make mainstream news.
These vulnerabilities are not an accident, they are built into a system that renders certain lives as expendable over the convenience and security of others. In order to understand the impact of climate change in India, we must recognise how it is inextricably tied to caste, class and gender hierarchies. This issue intends to explore these overlaps. We invite pitches for the second issue of Fourteen Magazine titled “Caste and Climate Justice”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to-
Adivasi and Dalit ecologies
Urban inequalities, wage labourers, migrant workers, gig workers
Caste-based segregations of land, water, and natural resources
Acceleration of air and water pollution; emergent vulnerabilities and culpabilities
Acceleration of ‘natural’ disasters; frequent forest fires, landslides, cyclones, and their interrelation with local communities.
Ecological and human costs of conservation and eco-tourism
Disparities and crises within agricultural ecosystems; effects on nature of excessive chemical usages; landless laborers; monocropping; droughts
Human-animal relations and conflicts in the face of shifting dynamics
The disappearance of forests, forest dwellers, and indigenous practices of sustenance and conservation et al.
What are we looking for?
Ethnographic writing, photo essays, memoirs and other forms of non-fiction that speak to the theme from different perspectives, geographies and disciplines. We also welcome multimedia submissions, writing that uses previously collected data to write a new piece, or previously unpublished work that you think fits the topic.
Final piece should be 2500 - 4000 words long
We prefer previously unreleased work, but are also open to accepting previously released work as long as the authors own the copyright and provide appropriate attribution.
How to pitch
Send your pitch as a Microsoft Word file in an attachment to fourteenthemagazine@gmail.com
Text should be in a readable 12 point font (such as Arial/Times New Roman/Calibri) with 1.5 - double spacing
Emails should be titled “Issue 02 pitch - Your Name”
You can tell us a little about yourself in the body of the email, along with background on what led you to write this essay
Two writing samples, preferably in the same category of non-fiction writing or using similar methodology.
What to include in your pitch
Your pitch should be 300-500 words long, and include the following:
Give background on the topic chosen
What will you be exploring within the topic
What is the methodology you will use
What perspective do you add to this topic that is especially important
Remuneration
We pay selected contributors between INR 15,000 - INR 20,000 depending on the form and length of the piece.
Deadline for submitting pitches is 5th June 2025.
