Societies without Borders: Human Rights & the Social Sciences
Call for papers
What the world’s peoples have in common – notwithstanding the borders that divide them – isthe aspiration to achieve human rights – the rights to food, housing, health care, education, decent work, free speech, to speak one’s conscience, as well as the right to a fair trial, to a safe environment, and the right to peace. What the world’s people are beginning to discover is that this aspiration is not only a common one, but it can only be pursued collectively in disregard of the bordersthat divide people. People may live in societies, derive their identities from their societies, but the pursuit of human rights is pursued and coordinated across borders. Societies Without Borders aims for high caliber scholarly analysis and also encourages submissions that address pioneering thought in human rights, globalism, and collective goods. The journal also welcomes submissions in the following areas: human rights and social justice, public sociology, global studies, critical social theory, environmental and health studies, public anthropology, migration and border studies, radical economics, labor studies, culture and political economy, urban & regional planning, critical media, and film studies. Societies Without Borders: Human Rights & the Social Sciences is a sociological journal that welcomes contributions from all disciplines which seek to blend the quest for truth and expert knowledge with a commitment to social justice, peace, and societal transformation. Societies Without Borders is a double-blind, peer reviewed journal. The editors will consider manuscripts in the following categories:
1. Research (5000-8,000 words): Original, theoretically-informed, and methodologically rigorous articles that are accessible to a broad audience.
2. Research note, review essay, commentary, and critique (2,000-3,000 words)
3. Book review (1000-2000 words)
4. Dialogue (500 words)
We also invite guest editors to edit future volumes around the following themes:
Capitalism and Human Rights
Decolonizing Human Rights
Food and Human Rights
Torture, Democracy, and Human Rights
Social Theory and Human Rights
Science and Human Rights
The editors will also consider other themes consistent with the objectives of the journal.
Editors: Judith Blau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, judith_blau@unc.edu
Farshad Araghi, Florida Atlantic University, araghi@fau.edu
Book Review editor: Keri Iyall Smith, kiyallsm@suffolk.edu