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Subject: Call for Essays: Global Citizenship

Date: 2008-02-08 10:34

Please respond to Kerry Donoghue

 

peacereview@usfca.edu

 

Call for Essays: Global Citizenship

 

Peace Review, a Routledge/Taylor & Francis quarterly, multidisciplinary,
transnational journal of research and analysis, welcomes original
contributions, policy analyses, and research for a special issue addressing
the contested notions of citizenship. 

 

Notions of citizenship have long been conceptualized as rights and
responsibilities linked to membership in a political community. These
notions are intimately related to our identities as citizens and to issues
of social justice. The extent to which citizenship institutions and
practices are inclusive or exclusive of the interests and concerns of most
vulnerable groups, serves as a barometer of the values of social justice
linked to particular groups and communities around the globe. The degree to
which citizens' rights are given priority over citizens' responsibilities is
also indicative of the commitment to social justice by powerful elites and
organizations. In-so-far as social justice calls for the mobilization of an
equitable distribution of fundamental resources, and respect for human
dignity and diverse practices of belonging, issues of identity have been
used as a language to demand, and also deny, an extension of citizenship
rights. 

 

This special issue of Peace Review will explore political, social, and
cultural struggles over the boundaries and substance of citizenship, both
historically and today. It will also consider how social and political
struggles surrounding identity are interlinked with notions of citizenship
and social justice. The issue will include essays by internationally
acclaimed scholars, researchers, and activists that address the complex
relationships among citizenship, identity, and social justice.

 

Peace Review publishes essays on ideas and research in peace studies,
broadly defined. Our essays are relatively short (2500-3500 words), and are
intended for a wide readership. We are most interested in the cultural and
political issues surrounding conflicts occurring between nations and
peoples. Since we are a transnational journal (we distribute to more than 40
nations), we want to avoid speaking with the voice of any particular
national culture or politics. Relevant topics include war, violence, human
rights, political economy, development, culture and consciousness, the
environment, and related issues. Generally, we do not reprint essays that
have been published elsewhere. 

 

 

Please send essays on this theme by April 15, 2008. Essays should run
between 2500 and 3500 words, and should be jargon- and footnote- free. See
Submission Guidelines at:

http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html.
  

 

Send essays to: 

Kerry Donoghue (Managing Editor)

Peace Review

University of San Francisco

2130 Fulton Street

San Francisco, CA 94117-1080

USA 

 

or by email:

 

peacereview@usfca.edu

 

 

Kerry Donoghue

Managing Editor, Peace Review (2007 Utne Press Award Finalist) University of
San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117-1080

 

Phone: 415-422-2910

Email: peacereview@usfca.edu

http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html