Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:56:10 +1000
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PEACE REVIEW JOURNAL
Special Issue: Social Justice Movements and the Internet
Editors: Bernadette Barker-Plummer and Dorothy Kidd, University of San
Francisco
Writers Deadline: April 1, 2001
Peace Review Journal, an international and multidisciplinary journal
of peace, social justice and human rights, is seeking papers for a
special issue on Social Justice Movements and the Internet.
The Internet has been hailed as a new and potentially radical force
for social change movements. It seems to offer the ability to connect,
share information, communicate, publish, and organize more cheaply and
quickly than ever before. But is the Net really a significant force for
progressive political practice? How are social justice movements using the
Net and with what results?
In this issue of Peace Review we are seeking essays, case studies, and
critical assessments that address the role(s) --potential and actual -- of
the Internet in progressive political practice.
Topics might include, but are not restricted to:
o Case studies of the role(s) of the Internet in social justice
campaigns - e.g. the IMF protests in Washington and Prague, the MAI
protests
in Europe, the WTO protest in Seattle, the international campaign of
dockers,
the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and so on.
o The use of the Net by established public interest or social movement
groups.
o Historical assessments of the net's role in social change.
o Internet access issues. Who is able to access and use the Net in
organizing and who cannot?
o The political economy of the net - e.g. how do the military
underpinnings of the net and the increasing commercial presence there affect
its
potential as a social change resource?
o Understanding Cyber -movements. What is Cyberfeminism? Or
Cyber-Leninism? How do we understand movements that exist on the net as
their primary
location?
o Analyses of movements to democratize the Net itself - e.g. the Free
Software Movement and the Open Code movement
o Labor patterns and labor organization among Net and information
workers
CONTACTS AND QUESTIONS:
Dorothy Kidd or Bernadette Barker-Plummer (Editors)
Department of Media Studies
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco
CA 94117
(415) 422 6680
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PEACE REVIEW WRITER'S GUIDELINES
Peace Review is a transnational journal distributed in more than 40
nations. It is intended for a wide readership both inside and outside
of academia and across the peace and social justice movements, so please
try to avoid speaking in the voice of any particular national culture or
politics and avoid unnecessary jargon. We seek short (maximum 3500
words), readable essays.
Manuscripts (2 copies, double-spaced) MUST be sent BOTH on paper and
on computer disk using Microsoft Word or WordPerfect or text format to:
Dorothy Kidd or Bernadette Barker-Plummer (Editors)
Department of Media Studies
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco
CA 94117
Include a 1-2 sentence professional biography of yourself, and your
email address, if available. Manuscripts and disks cannot be returned.
When writing your Essays, please observe the following: (1) We need a
short title--we do NOT run titles divided by a colon. (2) We do not run
figures or tables but can run drawings or photos. (3) We do not run
subheadings but we do make periodic breaks in the text using drop-caps (in
the style
of literary journals). To indicate where you would like breaks, skip an
extra line in the text. (4) We do not run footnotes or endnotes but we do
print "Recommended Readings" at the end of each essay, if the author so
desires. It should be a short list, and appear in the following format:
Books
Parkin, Sara. 1994. The Life and Death of Petra Kelly. London:
Pandora.
Articles
Fagan, Richard R. 1983. "Theories of Development." Monthly Review
(September): 1324.
Chapters
Tunnell, Kenneth D. 1992. "Worker Insurgency and Social Control," in
Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed.), Violence in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University
Press.
All essays run in the journal will be thoroughly edited to meet our
requirements for style, length, and good English. If your essay needs
extensive editing, we will ask you to resubmit it. If your essay needs
less editing, and if we can edit it without changing the essay's meaning,
we will assume you are inviting us to do so. We cannot return your edited
essay for your approval. Papers accepted become the copyright of the
Journal, unless otherwise specifically agreed.
Fifty offprints of each essay accepted for publication, together with
a complete copy of the relevant journal issue, will be sent to the
senior author.
We welcome correspondence, and will publish short letters. We also
want to recommend good new books, and distributors of good, progressive
videos, and will publish favorable short reviews--not more than 800 words
each. We
also publish "Peace Profiles" comprised of short biographies of
distinguished peace activists, broadly defined, from around the world.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
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individuals, and 60 dollars US or 48 pounds EU for
libraries/institutions.
You may pay by check or credit card, and can secure a subscription
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