PEACE REVIEW JOURNAL: CALL FOR PAPERS

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:

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.
The use of the Net by established public interest or social movement groups.
Historical assessments of the net's role in social change.
Internet access issues. Who is able to access and use the Net in organizing and who cannot?
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?
Understanding Cyber -movements. What is Cyberfeminism? Or Cyber-Leninism? How do we understand movements that exist on the net as their primary location?
Analyses of movements to democratize the Net itself - e.g. the Free Software Movement and the Open Code movement
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
barkerplum@usfca.edu
kiddd@usfca.edu

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.

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