Dear Colleagues,
The online journal Community
Psychology in Global Perspective invites submissions for a special issue
titled, Structural Violence and Community-based Research and Action. We
encourage papers from scholars, educators, practitioners, and activists
engaging with and/or interrogating community-based action and research through
the lens of structural violence. The
deadline for submission of manuscripts is January 15, 2016.
Please see below and
attachments for more information on the special issue.
Best,
Urmi Dutta
Christopher Sonn
M. Brinton Lykes
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Urmitapa
Dutta, Ph.D.
Assistant
Professor of Psychology
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Phone:
978-934-2227
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Call for Papers: Structural
Violence and Community-based Research and Action
Important Dates
January 15, 2016: Deadline for paper submission
Editors
Urmitapa Dutta, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
Christopher Sonn, Victoria University, Australia.
M. Brinton Lykes, Boston College, USA.
Theme of the Special Issue
Structural violence refers to the production and
maintenance of social inequality and oppression. The concept signifies the
mechanisms through which social systems produce and normalize exclusion and
marginalization along lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and
other invidious categories (Galtung, 1969; Farmer, 1996; Martin-Baró, 1994;
Scheper-Hughes, 2006). Structural violence erases social and political origins
of problems, instead placing the blame on struggling individuals and
communities. Examples include racism, sexism, poverty, hunger, and health
disparities. Structural violence is intricately tied to symbolic or cultural
violence, that is, systematic assaults on the human dignity and self-worth of
individuals and communities. This kind of violence operates through aspects of
the symbolic sphere such as culture, language, ideology, and empirical science
to legitimize direct violence (Bourdieu, 1991; Galtung, 1990). Structural and
symbolic violence systematically violate individual, economic, social, and
cultural rights through exploitation, abuse, and epistemic violence built into
institutional, cultural, and research practices.
Conceptions of structural violence can challenge
community-based praxis to incorporate sophisticated analyses of injustice. The
special issue on Structural Violence and Community-based Research and
Action explores these possibilities through critical interrogations of
diverse forms of structural and symbolic violence. We invite papers that draw
on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to offer theoretical,
empirical, and/or practice-based insights into structural violence and how it
operates and/or is performed in communities. In particular, we seek
contributions that move beyond positivist and postpositivist understandings of
“scientific” research, to excavate the manifold ways in which structural
violence is deeply ingrained in our society including the academy. We encourage
papers from scholars, educators, practitioners, and activists engaging with
and/or interrogating community-based action and research through the lens of
structural violence. We seek contributions, in particular from the global south,
which contribute to a critical, international activist scholarship on
community-based research and practice.
The following list presents some illustrative topics for
possible contributions:
- Study of
both individual experiences and the macrosocial matrix in which
experiences are configured.
- Illustration
of mechanisms through which macrosocial forces translate into
individual/everyday suffering.
- Theoretical
and empirical examination of how intersecting social axes are implicated
in forms of social injustice.
- Study of
contexts and social formations that produce violence.
- Interventions
(theory and praxis) informed by understandings of structural violence.
- Innovative
possibilities for strategies of survival and social transformation.
- Critique of and/or new directions in community psychology and community-based research.
Details
Submitted papers should contain original and unpublished
work and must be written in English. For non-native speakers, editing of the
manuscript by a competent English-speaking editor is requested.
Papers are due January 15, 2016. Early submissions
are welcome.
All submitted papers will undergo the journal's regular
peer review process.
Papers must be prepared in full accord with the journal’s Author guidelines and be submitted through the journal
portal (http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/index).
Inquiries regarding topic or scope for the special issue
can be sent to Urmitapa Dutta at urmitapa_dutta@uml.edu (note underscore between
first name and last name).
Papers unrelated to the theme of the special issue may be
submitted at any time through the journal’s online submission system and will be considered
for publication in Community Psychology In Global Perspective as
regular articles. Inquiries regarding the journal’s aim, scope, and policy can
be sent to terri.mannarini@unisalento.it
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