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  • (Con)textos: Revista d'Antropologia i Investigació Social celebrates its 15th anniversary.

    2024-05-11

    (Con)textos: Revista d'Antropologia i Investigació Social celebrates its 15th anniversary.

    (Con)textos: Revista d'Antropologia i Investigació Social is pleased to announce the celebration of its 15th anniversary with a special event to be held on Tuesday, May 21st at 5:00 PM in the Jane Addams Room, Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Barcelona.

    The anniversary program includes a roundtable with founding members of the journal and from the current team, where experiences and reflections on the journey of these 15 years will be shared. Additionally, it will feature the participation of Diana Mata-Codesal, who will deliver a talk titled "Anthropologists! How to publish in scientific journals?", specially prepared for those who wish to embark on this path.

    As the (Con)textos team, we hope this event contributes to fostering dialogue and the exchange of ideas among attendees.

    Join us!

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  • Call for papers No. 13

    2024-02-14

    Good afternoon,

    We announce that (Con)textos: Revista d'antropologia i investigació social opens the call for submission of articles for number 13, corresponding to the year 2024:

    Preferred thematic focus: Conflict and Environmental Justice

    Deadline: Articles can be submitted until April 15th, 2024.

    The Call for Papers is attached and the following link contains the guidelines for submitting articles and reviews.

    Best regards,

    Editorial Board

    (Con)textos: revista d’antropologia i investigació social

     

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  • CfP EASA 2024 Diamond journals in the anthropological landscape [AnthroJournals] [OpenAccess]

    2024-01-09

    We invite you to submit a paper proposal to our panel at EASA 2024 in Barcelona on “Diamond journals in the anthropological landscape” [P072]. The panel is organized by the following two open access journals: Perifèria (UAB) and (Con)textos (UB). Both journals advocate for open access knowledge that provides inclusive and free alternative opportunities for researchers. 

    We encourage scholars and journal editors to participate in the debate on the role of open-access journals in the context of the growing commercialization of knowledge.

     

    Key data

    Format: Face-to-face Roundtable

    Deadline: January 22nd

    Additionally, please note that you can participate in more than one panel. 

    More information: Call for papers

    Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns at contextos@ub.edu

     

    Long Abstract:

    The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) have joined forces to propose an in-person roundtable titled "Diamond Journals in the Anthropological Landscape." This event aims to explore the role of open-access anthropology journals in generating and disseminating knowledge, as well as in nurturing the next generation of researchers in academic publishing.

    In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the journal "Perifèria. Revista d'investigació i formació en Antropologia" (ERIH+), available at https://revistes.uab.cat/periferia, and with the support of its germane journal "(Con)textos: revista d’antropologia I investigació social" at https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/contextos, this roundtable offers an opportunity to reflect on the past and envision the future while reaffirming our commitment to open, free, critical, and socially-relevant anthropological knowledge.

    Given the current predicament where scholars are often required to pay for publishing (the "Golden" option), Diamond Journals, which are also open-access platforms, emerge as the most inclusive choice, offering free access and providing opportunities for young researchers to contribute with their original publications. Furthermore, these journals offer a platform for publishing innovative ideas, which are frequently rejected by JCR or Scopus journals and their reviewers within the context of a growing commercialization of knowledge.

    This roundtable aims to foster discussion and debate on the significant role played by such journals in our society.

    Perifèria & (Con)textos

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  • Call for Papers N.12

    2023-02-01

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    No. 12 Guest editor: José Julián Soto Lara

    The journal (Con)textos presents the Call for Papers No. 12 and invites authors interested in publishing in the next issue of our online journal to submit their social science papers and reviews. We welcome all academic profiles (including undergraduate and master students, pre- and postdoctoral researchers) and professionals.

    Preferred thematic line: Inclusion and segregation in Ibero-America: phenomena of international, interregional, and interurban borders. 

    Deadline: 30 April 2023

    Inclusion and segregation in Ibero-America: phenomena of international, interregional, and interurban borders
    Guest Editor: José Julián Soto Lara

    For this issue we propose an analysis of border phenomena in Ibero-America. We invite anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and other social science researchers to submit their papers before April 30th, 2023.

    We aim to address border phenomena taking into consideration three different perspectives, ranging from the macro to the micro. The first one is related to the most visible borders: those that have divided nation-states from the nineteenth century to the present. Undoubtedly, there are countless events that take place between the borders that separate the Ibero-American countries, such as migration, militarization, drug and human trafficking, exports and imports of goods, etc. Approaching these processes from an anthropological perspective will be useful to understand their socio-historical nature. From this perspective, it is intended to complexify and enrich the classic geopolitical analysis towards the border that have tended to hide social actors.

    The second perspective pays attention to internal borders that are lifted like an “invisible” veil, differentiating both cities and customs as well as the rural and urban world within each country. Borders are not only delineated on maps, but also in interactions and exclusions that are built upon the observation of “foreignness” in the other. The rural and the urban are dissociated by different customs, lifestyles, education opportunities, and other social class divisions, almost tracing different countries within the same country. The one of the countryside, agriculture, and livestock; and that of the city,
    offices and traffic congestions.

    Thirdly, there are borders that exist within the same urban or rural space. We refer to the social borders that differentiate residents and segregate them into different neighborhoods. In Ibero-America there is an accentuated social stratification that draws imaginary barriers between the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, and the popular sectors.

    Likewise, the ways of inhabiting the city correspond to the various spaces assigned to each social class, in which, in addition, an identity is defined. Although social “fragmentation” of the cities began during the nineteenth-century modernization of the macro-region, it has deepened notoriously in the context of globalization. In recent decades, cities have become centers of great multicultural activity and symbolic poiesis, as well as a public space for social movements that question (or adhere to) old categories of social differentiation.

    Social borders result in various modes of interactions, exchanges, discourses, agreements, but also segregation, exclusion, discrimination, and racism. The social sciences have not overlooked the border phenomena and its impact in the way in which social bonds are structured. With the aim of contributing to this debate from an anthropological point of view, we invite researchers to reflect on the following questions:

    1. What theoretical and methodological perspectives can be considered in the approach to the socio-cultural construction of borders in Ibero-America? What are the main and most urgent issues arising from migratory movements between Ibero-American countries? How do “border” communities of different nationalities experience relationships with members of other cultures in terms of inclusion and/or segregation?

    2. How have border demarcations within Ibero-American States affected social bonds? How rigid are the distinctions between urban and rural culture or between modern and traditional ways of life within the countries of the region? What are the social discourses, stereotypes and prejudices that characterize rural and urban identities as opposed to each other? And how has this dichotomy been established?

    3. How are the social boundaries established within cities and within towns producing worldviews that favor or leave social conflict latent? What socio-political practices reveal the evolution experienced in recent years by social mobilizations in the public space?

    *Although the preferred line of this issue is Ibero-American borders, studies on border phenomena in other regions are not excluded from publication.

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