The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, volume 2

Deadline: February 28, 2019

This SPECIAL ISSUE engages with dominant paradigms and concepts for imagining liberation and fashioning hope. Traditional paradigms such as nationalism, globalism and liberalism increasingly appear to conceal rather than reveal the nature and impact of dominations. Achievements of anti-colonial, anti-racist, feminist, queer, disability and other struggles may be facing a reversal as once again dominations, marginalisations and exploitations of those constructed as racial, ethnic, religious, national, sexed/gendered ‘others’ seem to be gaining currency. The planetary ecological crisis, global financial crises, expanding social inequalities, political and religiously motivated violence contribute to a climate of systematised and institutionalised domination and oppression. In such a world, it may seem that the odds are so stacked against the disempowered that they are structurally condemned to despair. When the systems of domination are so durable and inventive, how can we enhance and redouble our efforts to bring about social justice? How should we reinvigorate our thinking on how contemporary societies may move beyond structures and systems of domination? How do we create horizons of hope envisioning a world in which our diversity is protected and valued? How do we advance efforts at the re- humanisation of the oppressed, and indeed, of the oppressor? How can we sharpen our critiques? How should critical scholarship and activism engage despair? How should hope inform critical scholarship? What kind of hope should this be?

The IJCDS invites manuscripts that look at the interrelationships of liberation, hope and despair in the contexts of:

• Achievements and failures of past struggles - Knowledge production and epistemologies
  
• Normative social formations - Affective economies
  
• Emerging centres and margins - Bodies and embodiment
  
• Social and political institutions - Faith, spirituality and religion
  
• Identities and subjectivities - Law and legislation
  
• Social movements and civil society - Institutions and organisations
  
• Migration and nation - Economic practices and occupations
  
• Ethnic and cultural formations - Violences
  
• Culture, arts and representation - Past, present and future imaginaries
  
• Memory and memorialization
  

Key deadlines and details:

• Submission deadline: February 28, 2019
• Planned publication date: June 2019
• Authors must use the ScholarOne submission portal to submit manuscripts. Submission guidelines should be followed and can be found at: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcds

The IJCDS is published by Pluto Journals and upon publication, individual articles can be located through the JSTOR database. Please contact the IJCDS editorial team with regards to any questions.