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Call for Publications
Theme: Postcolonial-Postsocialist Decolonial Investigations
Subtitle: A Programmatic Overture
Publication: Artha: Journal of Social Sciences
Date: Vol. 20 No. 3 (July – September 2021)
Deadline: 30.6.2021
The dialogue between postcolonial and postsocialist conditions have
immensely enriched the debates around decolonization, transitions,
globalization, and resistance. Working at a conjuncture this dialogue
is making substantive innovations in the field of humanities and
social sciences. It also has powerful affect in the ways social
movements and acts of political transformation are imagined,
mobilized, and organized. While there is a robust exchange at the
theoretical level, there is a need for more empirical engagement
across the postcolonial and postsocialist geographies, especially in
active collaboration with the Afro-Asian postcolonial, post-soviet,
and postsocialist experiences. This special issue is an invitation to
scholars to think around the possibilities of such conjunctural
studies, their methodologies and their epistemological and political
aspirations.
This open-access special issue located in an institutional space in
South Asia wants to provide another POV (point-of-view) to the
postcolonial-postsocialist dialogue which is primarily concerned with
East European experiences institutionally located within Europe. In
that sense, this special issue is also an invitation to reconnect to
the Non-Aligned and Bandung project which imagined the current
postcolonial and postsocialist geographies as a collective against
the Imperial project of Global powers. This special issue is also a
call for reimagining that spirit of decoloniality and decolonization
in current times of rise of virulent nationalism and global predatory
capitalism.
We welcome essays, reflexive pieces, field experiences, and research
articles (3000-5000 words) on themes (indicative not restrictive)
below. We especially welcome doctoral student and early career
contributions:
- Right-Wing Populism
- Migration
- Social Justice
- Race, Caste, and Indigenous Identities
- Cultural Debates
- Urbanization
- Mobilities
- Nationalism
- Gender
- Queer and Trans Rights
- Extraction, dispossession, and commons
- Popular Culture
Artha Journal of Social Sciences (ISSN 0975-329X) is an open access
double-blind peer-reviewed journal of Christ (Deemed to be
University), Bangalore, India.
Last Date of Submission: June 30, 2021
For Submissions and related issues please follow the link:
http://journals.christuniversity.in/index.php/artha/about/submissions
Please contact Mithilesh Kumar and Kasia Narkowicz in case of any
queries.
Contact:
Dr. Mithilesh Kumar
Christ (Deemed to be University)
Bangalore, India
Email: mithilesh.kumar@christuniversity.in
Dr. Kasia Narkowicz
Middlesex University
UK
Email: k.narkowicz@mdx.ac.uk)
Journal website:
http://journals.christuniversity.in/index.php/artha/