Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS | Spring 2025 | Violence in Times of Polycrisis
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to Conflict, Justice, Decolonization – a student-led project that encourages grad students to act as public intellectuals in the spirit of literary communism and the free association of young scholars in Taiwan and from around the world.
In the 2025 Spring Call for Paper, the topic of interest is “Violence in Times of Polycrisis”. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Theories and new perspectives on violence
- Violence within geopolitical tensions and wars
- Violence and racism
- War and gender/sexual violence
- Representations of violence in media, literature, art, cinema etc.
- Reproduction and perpetuation of violence
- Domestic violence
- Actions and activism against violence
- (Non)-Violence as a means of resistance
- Language as violence
- Violence and technology
- Epistemic and institutional violence
- The role of the law in mitigating or perpetrating violence
Articles should be 2,000 – 3,000 words if written in English and 3,000 – 4,500 characters if written in Mandarin Chinese. We accept scholarly articles, conference reviews, interviews, photo essays, video essays, and book and film reviews. We welcome both single-authored and co-authored manuscripts.
HOW TO APPLY
We invite you all to submit an abstract (300-400 words in English, 450-600 characters in Mandarin) at the following Application Form: https://forms.gle/8d5J1fVXC5cy5V2t9 (QR code on poster).
The deadline for abstract submission is October 30, 2024.
Please note that a full-text article is NOT required to complete the application. Please read Submission Guidelines available at https://cjdproject.web.nycu.edu.tw/submission-guidelines/.
Selected articles will be published on the CJD website (ISSN: 2709-5479) and in a special issue of our booklet (ISSN: 2709-7943). Authors of selected articles with a Taiwanese post office bank account will be awarded 4,000 NTD per article.
For more information or any questions, please visit https://cjdproject.web.nycu.edu.tw/ or contact us at iccs.cjdproject@gmail.com.
