Calls For Papers 2.2 and 3.1
Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for issue 2.2, scheduled for Spring/Summer 2023 publication. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2023.
We are a double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal published bi-annually by Memorial University of Newfoundland, occupying a unique niche among journals of critical studies. A transdisciplinary platform for scholarly and creative writing, and academic research and exchange, within the field of World Literature, in particular, and Cultural Studies and the Humanities. In general, we provide a medium of intercommunication for students, teachers, researchers, critics, intellectuals, scholars, and artists all over the world.
The theme for our fourth issue is:
The Marginalization of the Global South
Natural resources are depleting and global economic demand is increasing. As global capitalism consumes the resources of the Global South, the impact on people of the south may be devastating: poverty, starvation, migration, violence, war, and erasure.
Issues include:
- Diaspora, Exile, Nomadism
- Refugees
- Living Dead Labour
- Energy and Information Extraction Fields
- Queer and Trans Rights in Marginalized Countries
- Biopolitical Laboratories
Non-themed submissions are always welcome.
Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies is also pleased to announce a call for papers for issue 3.1, scheduled for Winter 2023 publication. Deadline for Submission is 15 July 2023.
This is a special issue edited by Danine Farquharson, Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and one of our three Associate Editors.
The theme for this fifth and special edited issue is:
Feminist Resistance
Roe v. Wade. Repeal the 8th. #SayHerName. MMIWG. Masha Amini … the list feels endless and ongoing. Women, female-identifying, and non-binary people continue to resist the violence, the barriers, the misogynies. We seek submissions that describe, analyze, and document feminist resistance. Our focus is on the role of cis women, trans women, and non-binary identified individuals in resistance against systems that disadvantage feminist agency, identity, and politics. We include those populations that have historical strife as the result of misogyny.
Topics include:
- Intersectionality
- Feminist Praxis
- Queer, Trans, Women of Color, and Other Minority Populations
- Decolonization
- Any other forms of resistance that are liberatory for those who identify with feminism
We welcome submissions that fit ideas of “traditional” academic essays, but also encourage creative writing, personal narratives, and creative non-fiction.
Non-themed submissions are always welcome.
JU invites original research articles, essays, review articles, critical notes, commentaries, book reviews, and poems, long, short, and in-between. Multiple submissions are welcome. Poems should be original. We accept short films and videos. We do not consider work that has appeared elsewhere (this includes all websites and personal blogs) or that is being considered for publication elsewhere. Interested parties should send their works to info@janusunbound.com.
We value excellence and originality. Janus Unbound is particularly attracted to works that challenge prevailing views and established ideas and encourages thought-provoking research topics and debate. Based on “If not now, when?” as a motto, we foster transdisciplinarity, participate in the ongoing reconfiguration of knowledge, and challenge received conceptual frames and perspectives for the sake of the power, health, and wealth of the multitude.
Why publish with us? We are:
a hospitable venue for excellence and originality;
an eminent editorial and advisory board;
open access to all researchers and free of charge;
proper and fast in the peer-review process;
indexed in OAIster and DOAJ.
We look forward to receiving proposals or finished work in response to the call and are happy to respond to inquiries from interested parties.
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