Current calls for papers:
The season of revolution: the Arab Spring (deadline November 2011; includes special section on the new wave of European mobilizations)
Extended deadline: activist debate on feminist strategies for change (deadline September 2011)
For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity (deadline May 2012)
Interface: the first three years
Interface: a journal for and about social movements is now in its third year and working on its sixth issue (with two more years of discussion and planning before that!) Over this time we’ve brought together people researching and theorising movements to contribute to the production of knowledge that can help us learn from each other’s struggles: across languages, continents and cultures, across movements and issues, across the academic / activist divide, and across political and intellectual traditions.
We’ve brought out issues on movement knowledge, on the relationship between civil society and social movements, on crisis and revolutionary transformations, on movements and alternative media and on repression. New issues are in process on feminism and women’s movements; on the Arab Spring; and on new struggles around work. Alongside these themes, special sections have focussed on debating David Harvey and on international labour communication, with forthcoming special sections on feminist strategies for change and on the new European mobilizations. Each issue also includes many pieces on topics beyond these special themes.
So far, we’ve published activist interviews, testimonies, editorials, articles, action notes, research notes, event analyses, key documents, debates, book reviews and review essays by authors located in Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, the USA and Venezuela.
We have already published in English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. Beyond these we can accept material in Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latvian, Maltese, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish and Zulu. We hope to expand to include more world languages in future. In the meantime, you can see where people are reading us from here.
A world still to win
We are still working on many fronts – developing the project in different regions of the world, expanding the range of languages used, extending the collective production of the journal, finding appropriate ways of linking the journal to movement needs and processes, ensuring the quality of what we publish and securing intellectual and academic recognition. We have done a lot in the past four years, but there is a lot to do.
This new website is designed to be part of this process, keeping our orientation as an open-access (free) space for dialogue and involving a wider community of movement practitioners and activist scholars as authors, referees for articles, book reviewers, issue editors, translators, website editors, and other supporters. Participants with particular skills / interests are always welcome!
We hope you enjoy the new site, and that the material here is helpful to you in reflection on your own struggles, developing your activist practice, researching social movements constructively, debate within organisations and dialogue between movements. There is a world still to win.
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