Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities is looking for a new PhD editor in chief!
We are a journal for and by junior scholars in the humanities, currently supported by Utrecht University’s Graduate School of the Humanities. Junctions publishes two issues a year, after a double blind peer review process, on the intersections – ‘junctions’ – of our various disciplines. Junctions additionally functions as a platform and network of/for junior scholars to gain experience in academic publishing as authors and editors, while offering the best research of junior scholars across the disciplines of the humanities in the highest academic standards. We recently moved to a professional publishing platform via Ubiquity Press.
You’d be able to make the most of your PhD program by getting invaluable experience in managing and maintaining an open access, peer reviewed academic journal. The interdisciplinary nature of the journal enables new networks and collaborations across the different research institutes.
The main tasks of the Phd editor in chief are:
For this position, we ask:
If you’re interested, please send a motivation letter and CV to editor@junctionsjournal.org before June 20 2019.
Posted on 14 Apr 2019
Posted on 22 Mar 2019
We will present the new website on January 23rd in Utrecht, followed by celebratory drinks with our current and past editors, authors, advisors and reviewers. If you'd like to join, please email us at junctionsjournal[at]gmail.com.
One of our ambitions has been to establish the journal according to professional standards in the field of the humanities. With our transfer to Ubiquity Press, we are a major step closer to achieving that goal. On this format, we will be able to offer sustainable archiving via DOI's; protected author and reviewer submission portals; and streamlined publication according to the current norms. With this, we are one of the first humanities graduate journals in the Netherlands to offer these services.
Posted on 22 Jan 2019
“We have deprived nature of its independence, and that is fatal to its meaning,” wrote Bill McKibben in 1989. The End of Nature, one of the first books to discuss global warming for a popular audience, argued that human activity had irrevocably destroyed the autonomy of the nonhuman world, and with it everything that nature was thought to signify: “Nature’s independence is its meaning; without it, there is nothing but us.” But in the three decades since, the meaning of “nature” and its relation to “us” has been a topic of contestation and increasing urgency. In the shadow of accelerating climate change, mass extinction and resource scarcity, disciplines across the humanities have investigated the myriad ways individuals and societies interact with their environments. Humans have been understood as inhabitants, interpreters, inventors, custodians, masters or destroyers of the natural world, and each of these roles produces different representations, practices and consequences. Has nature ever been independent from the meanings we ascribe to it? Is nature an invention of culture? Is culture a product of nature? Or does it no longer make sense to separate the two?
For this issue of Junctions, we invite papers and book reviews that tackle the meanings, histories, politics, representations, and agencies that have shaped the courses of nature. We encourage you to take an expansive view of what this theme encompasses: nature is involved with everything from the human body to planetary systems, from wild landscapes to urban ecologies, from companion animals to deep-sea creatures, from gender politics to climate crisis, from new technologies to traditional practices, from art to science and back again. It is a concept that has preoccupied philosophers and artists of every period, entangled with questions of epistemology and ontology, of representation and reality. But many humanities scholars have also critiqued nature as an idea that has been used to justify inequalities and mask power relations, arguing that what we call “natural” is often or always a projection of society. Approaches to this theme might take a critical or an affirmative view of the natural; they might analyze the construction of human and nonhuman natures, investigate the theoretical implications of different definitions of nature, or engage with a particular aspect of the natural world in its own right. We hope that they will explore, expand and enrich the possibilities of what nature can mean and the courses it might take.
We urge students to engage imaginatively with this theme in accordance with their field of interest and expertise. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:
In light of increasing scholarly attention to this topic, we especially encourage book reviews of recent publications.
Junctions aims to connect the different disciplines of the Humanities by collecting disciplinary and interdisciplinary texts that are accessible to readers from across the Humanities. This gives you the opportunity to gain valuable publishing, editing and reviewing experience. Everyone who submits an article to Junctions will receive feedback from our reviewers, and if your work is selected for publication, the editors will guide you through the different stages of editing to produce a professional article and begin your academic CV.
Please send a digital copy of the complete manuscript in Chicago author-date referencing style, following the guidelines provided at http://junctionsjournal.org/submit/guidelines-for-authors/, to editor@junctionsjournal.org by November 16. After double-blind reviewing, accepted articles will undergo a revision process which will conclude with the publication of the journal issue. Should you have any questions regarding the Call for Papers, or want some advice, we will hold a Q&A session – date to be announced. Please let us know if you wish to participate.
Important Dates:
Submission length is 3500-5000 words for original articles, and 750-1500 words for book reviews. Submissions should engage with the scholarly literature of the appropriate discipline and clearly identify its contribution to the field. Please omit references to the author in manuscripts to ensure anonymous reviews. The journal does not accept manuscripts previously published by or simultaneously submitted to other publications. Please contact editor@junctionsjournal.org with any questions.
Please download the full CfP here.
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Posted on 07 Jan 2019