Deadline: 1 May 2011
Call for Submissions The new peer-reviewed journal of African studies is planning its second issue (see poster).
Deadline EXTENDED: May 1, 2011
Interested authors are invited to submit articles in any of the following areas:
1. Articles related to our current special theme
2. Articles on matters of contemporary relevance in African studies, that do not necessarily fall within the theme for the issue
3. Shorter articles and position papers for our “Agitate” section. Agitate articles do not need to meet the same standards of primary research, but can allow authors to engage in debates. Authors may want to agitate for changes in our research agendas, policy orientation, advocacy, activism or offer critical examinations of current trends and issues in African Studies.
The current special theme is: “Africa: Front Lines or the Margins of a Global Anti-Poverty Movement?” Within this theme authors could consider the following sub-themes
1) “Moving from Charity to Solidarity Models”
2) “Contours of African Struggles in the Global North and South”
Discussions of poverty within Canada and in a global context must inevitably confront its racial and regional dimensions. Africa was central in the constructions of racism that fueled the rise of an Atlantic capitalist world system. Today, people of African descent, wherever they reside, carry the brunt of the slave trade and colonialism. These circumstances have resulted in complex socio-economic and political situations at the individual, national, regional and international levels. What are the contours of African struggles in the Global North and South? How are Africans organizing? How do we learn from existing struggles of Africans and find meaningful ways of relating to them on the basis of solidarity? What are the conditions of African diasporas in Canada and what roles might they play in resisting or upholding the global economic order? Are these communities informing struggles in the North and the South and if so, how do their experiences differ? What roles do religions play in processes of resistance and domination and how do anti-poverty activists navigate them? How do we relate to African women in struggle and recognize and support their actual and potential transformative roles? These are some of the questions this upcoming issue seeks to engage on.
Please submit your electronic paper to Nokoko at nokoko@carleton.ca by May 1, 2011. Please check our website (http://www2.carleton.ca/africanstudies/research/nokoko/) for the Submissions Guidelines and more information about the journal.