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Call for Papers: Issue 1, "Movement knowledge"
Interface is a new journal launched by activists and academics around
the world in response to the development and increased visibility of
social movements in the last few years -- and the immense amount of
knowledge generated in this process. This knowledge is created across
the globe, and in many contexts and a variety of ways, and it
constitutes an incredibly valuable resource for the further development
of social movements. Interface responds to this need, as a tool to help
our movements learn from each other's struggles.
Interface is a forum bringing together activists from different
movements and different countries, researchers working with movements,
and progressive academics from various countries to contribute to the
production of knowledge that can help us gain insights across movements
and issues, across continents and cultures, and across theoretical and
disciplinary traditions. To this end, Interface seeks to develop
analysis and knowledge that allow lessons to be learned from specific
movement processes and experiences and translated into a form useful for
other movements. In doing so, our goal is to include material that can
be used in a range of ways by movements -- in terms of its content, its
language, its purpose and its form.
We are currently seeking contributions to the first issue of Interface
and welcome contributions by movement participants and academics who are
developing movement-relevant theory and research.
The theme of this first issue, which will be published on January 15th
2009, is "movement knowledge": what we know, how we create knowledge,
what we do with it and how it can make a difference either in movement
struggles or in creating a different and better world. We invite both
formal research (qualitative and quantitative) and practically-grounded
work on all aspects of social movements. We are seeking work in a range
of different formats, such as conventional articles, review essays,
facilitated discussions and interviews, action notes, teaching notes,
key documents and analysis, book reviews -- and beyond.
In order to achieve this, research contributions will be reviewed by
both activist and academic peers, other material will be sympathetically
edited, and the editorial process generally will be geared towards
assisting authors to find ways of expressing their understanding, so
that we all can be heard across geographical, social and political
distances.
The deadline for contributions for the first issue is September 1st
2008.
Please contact the appropriate editor if you are thinking of submitting
an article.
You can access the journal and get further details at
http://www.interfacejournal.net/
The journal will be published twice yearly (January 15th and September
15th), each time with a themed core section and a collection of other
articles. Bi-monthly updates (March 1st, May 1st and November 1st) will
highlight practice-oriented pieces in particular.
