(ISO) MANAGING EDITOR: POSITION DESCRIPTION
ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies is an international journal for critical analyses of the social, the spatial, the ecological, and the political, grounded in critical geographic scholarship. Since 2002, ACME has freely published open access (now known as “platinum open access”) scholarship and, more recently, creative works. As a journal of geography, we acknowledge the imperial, racist, cis-heteropatriarchal, ableist, and colonial roots of the discipline, and we seek to publish scholarship in solidarity with global and localized struggles. We recognize that the works we publish take place on Indigenous territories across the globe, and that the geographies represented in ACME are themselves formed through systems and structures of injustice. ACME is run by a Collective currently comprising 27 international members. In the editing process, each Collective member is a co-editor and autonomously oversees articles through the peer review process, in addition to taking part in ACME’s Standing Committees (e.g., finances, languages, tech, etc.) that make decisions and perform key tasks. We meet regularly and sustain multiple channels of horizontal communication in our pursuit of consensus-based decision-making.
We SEEK: A new Managing Editor to provide leadership and dedication, and to bring energy to the Collective. The Managing Editor will be committed to enacting our recently revised mission statement in light of the current discussions and aspirations of geographical scholarship. As a Collective, we are dedicated to being accountable and relational with each other as well as with communities inside and outside of the academy. To learn more about ACME’s mission statement and our activities, including praxis-oriented Collective work, please see our “An Unpause-ish Statement” editorial.
The Managing Editor is responsible for: overseeing submissions and ensuring suitability, guiding the Collective in quarterly meetings, working closely with the Coordinating Editor for timely publications, providing leadership to the Collective, and liaising, when needed, with authors, reviewers, and Collective members on emerging issues, tensions, and discussions.
As a freely open access, not-for-profit journal, the Managing Editor position and that of all Collective members is unpaid. We are already strategizing how to raise and apply for funds to financially compensate the Managing Editor in the years going forward.
To apply, please send a CV and a cover letter outlining your interest, aspirations, and desires to hold the Managing Editor position, including your understanding of critical geographies in theory and praxis and previously held editorial roles. Documents should be sent to [log in to unmask] The deadline for applications is Friday, June 30th to start at an agreed upon date before the end of 2023. All applications will be reviewed by the Collective and short-listed applicants will be contacted for a brief discussion over zoom. Please direct any questions to Ebru Ustundag at [log in to unmask] and Onyx Sloan Morgan at [log in to unmask]
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