Calls for Papers

The Editorial Board of Kultura i Społeczeństwo invites submissions for a thematic issue devoted to the relationships between fashion and (in)justice. 

Fashion, understood as a socially structured system of practices, meanings, and relations within which dress becomes a vehicle of identity, power, and difference, today constitutes one of the key arenas in which the tensions of contemporary social orders are revealed. Positioned at the intersection of aesthetics and economics, creativity and exploitation, and global aspirations and local consequences, fashion is simultaneously entangled in processes that produce inequalities, hierarchies, and forms of symbolic exclusion. As an object of sociological and anthropological analysis, fashion cannot be reduced merely to the sphere of consumption or the clothing industry. Rather, it functions as a lens through which one can examine mechanisms of power, social classification, bodily control, and the production of material goods and cultural norms. It is precisely this multidimensional character of fashion that makes it an important and compelling subject for the social sciences.

The planned issue invites reflection on justice in the context of fashion, understood broadly as a social, cultural, and philosophical category encompassing both a distributive dimension (the allocation of goods, resources, and burdens) and a symbolic dimension (the right to representation, recognition, and presence in cultural space). We are interested in fashion as a space in which conflicting values and interests are negotiated: between labour and capital, consumption and care, and aesthetics and the costs borne in global production chains by both people and ecosystems. At the same time, the issue is open to analyses of alternative practices, social movements, and forms of resistance that seek to transform dominant models of clothing production and consumption.

We welcome submissions grounded in the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, particularly sociology, social and cultural anthropology, social thought, and cultural studies, in line with the profile of Kultura i Społeczeństwo. 

We encourage contributions addressing, among others, the following topics:

• Social inequalities, power relations, and working conditions in global clothing production chains — including women’s labor, workers’ rights, and the dignity of work.

• Fashion as a field of class conflict, the unequal distribution of goods, and the responsibilities of transnational corporations.

• Environmental justice — the ecological costs of textile production, greenwashing, and critiques of the “sustainable fashion” discourse.

• Cultural, symbolic, and bodily justice — cultural appropriation, postcolonial perspectives on fashion, aesthetic norms and exclusion, and the (non)representation of gender, class, race, and disability in fashion.

• Adaptive and inclusive fashion as an expression of justice for people with disabilities; clothing as an element of identity, consumer experiences, industry barriers (accessibility of physical stores and fitting rooms, lack of standard sizes), and 3D printing in the design of garments and garment components.

• Fashion as a tool for the control and/or emancipation of the body.

• Social movements and alternative practices — Fashion Revolution, slow fashion, circular fashion, local production, practices of resistance, and education for fashion justice.

• Local and post-socialist perspectives — (in)justice and fashion in post-socialist countries, archives of textile industry memory, sewing practices, DIY, and community-based production as forms of resistance.

• Theoretical and methodological approaches — justice in fashion from the perspectives of social philosophy, critical fashion studies, and qualitative, ethnographic, and visual research.

Submissions should be sent to the three guest editors of the Special Issue: 

• Cherine Fahd (Cherine.Fahd@uts.edu.au), 

• Roberto Filippello (r.filippello@uva.nl),

• Todd Robinson (Todd.Robinson@uts.edu.au)

Fashion, dress and clothing provide a critical lens for interpreting the material, social and affective dimensions of colonial state violence, revealing how vulnerability and power are inscribed onto, and contested by, un/clothed bodies. Yet, within fashion studies, such violence has rarely been treated as an object of analysis, and fashion scholars have remained largely silent in the face of catastrophic geopolitical events. This Special Issue of International Journal of Fashion Studies seeks to develop methods capable of positioning fashion studies in relation to urgent political and humanitarian concerns. Recent work has indeed begun to address this gap by attending to garments as trace, relation and evidence within the image field of unfolding ethnic cleansing in Palestine (Fahd and Robinson 2026; Muhawar 2026). Building on this scholarship, the Special Issue asks what it means to think about fashion under conditions of state violence, and what it means to do so at this current juncture. We take the ongoing destruction of life in Gaza as a central provocation, while also acknowledging other contemporary sites of mass violence, including Sudan, Congo, Lebanon and Iran, among other contexts. Indeed, we welcome contributions on/from other locales extending beyond Palestine.

While this Special Issue will necessarily engage the connections between bodies and clothing under political, social and physical duress, we encourage authors to consider both reparative and diagnostic approaches. Reparative methods might attend to forms of memory, care, resistance and sociality through clothing and material culture, while diagnostic approaches may analyse how garments register and make legible the dynamics and ideologies of state violence. The Special Issue will foreground interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from visual culture, media studies, anthropology, sociology, art history, photography theory, gender and sexuality studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, alongside fashion studies.

The issue will include five to seven articles in the 6000–8000-word range that combine theoretical and empirical work, as well as shorter (non-peer-reviewed) submissions, visual essays, creative and/or reflective works and reviews (which will be featured in the journal’s ‘Open Space & Reviews’ section). Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• dress under siege, displacement and occupation

• clothing and the killed body

• dress in images of mass violence

• uses of clothes in solidarity movements

• repression, looting, or confiscation of clothes by military enforcement entities

• archives of clothing, disappearance and loss

• garments as trace or evidence or memorial form

• clothing and grief, mourning and care

• humanitarian visuality and the politics of dress

• the ethics of looking at clothing in images of violence

• children’s clothing and domestic life in conditions of destruction

• interdisciplinary approaches to, and methodological interventions for, the study of dress and violence

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a special issue entitled “New Relational Challenges”. This special issue, guest edited by Clàudia Martori (Universitat de Barcelona) and Iago Rodríguez-Diéguez (Universidade de Vigo), includes works from the I Seminar on Gender and Literature: New Relational Challenges in Contemporary Literature and Culture, organised by Pandora Literary Gender Studies, funded by the research project "Communitas/Immunitas: Relational Ontologies in Atlantic Anglophone Cultures of the 21st Century" at the University of Vigo.

Its main aim is to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on how contemporary literature, culture and the arts imagine new relational possibilities and respond to the ethical, political, and affective challenges of our time. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Posthumanism, more-than-human, and hybrid relationalities

• Gender, identity, and the reconfiguration of the subject

• Affects, emotions, and embodied experiences

• Community, solidarity, and alternative forms of social bonding

• New forms of maternity, parenthood, and reproductive narratives

• Care, vulnerability, and dependency in contemporary culture

• Kinship beyond the nuclear family

• Feminist and queer futures

• Literary and cultural responses to ecological and technological change

Research article submissions will be considered only if written in English. They must follow the journal’s templates and be submitted as anonymized files. The expected article length is 4000–8000 words. Please include abstracts, keywords, and titles in both English and Spanish. Authors who are non‑native speakers of Spanish will receive support and supervision from the editorial team.

Film and book reviews, creative writing and other forms of artistic creation, and interviews could be in English or Spanish.

When submitting your article, review, artistic piece or interview, it is essential that you indicate in the section “Comments for the Editor” that your submission is intended for the Special issue: “New Relational Challenges”.

Scandi and Sámi cultures are steeped in warmth and wellbeing, with material-based artistic traditions woven into daily life. As the days grow shorter and a winter chill settles in, we invite you on a journey across the Nordic regions—Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, and Sápmi—to celebrate contemporary fiber arts and textiles in Scandinavia.

Proposal Requirements

Abstract: 500 words max,  Word document

Label your file: “FirstNameLastName_Title.doc”

Images: 4-6 representative images, jpg, tiff, or png format

Label your images: “FirstNameLastName_Number.jpg”

Full Articles: (what to expect if your proposal gets accepted!)

Full article: Word count varies depending on department (see below examples for word count)

Images: All images must be High Resolution, 300 dpi, jpg, tiff, or png, minimum 6 inches on the shortest side, shared via Google Form (we will send the form to you once your article is accepted)

Caption sheet: Name, Title, Year, materials, techniques, dimensions, photo credit (all are required for every image).

Example: Nádia Taquary, O Mundo/Ifá,  2019. Old iron ball, shell, cowrie shells, coastal marsh grass, wooden beads, 29 x 31.5 x 31.5 inches. Photo: Andrew Kemp.

Bio: 50 words max

Any relevant links (artist website, Instagram handles, Vimeo/YouTube videos)

Guidelines

Submissions received after deadline will not be accepted.

All articles will be reviewed for consideration but not guaranteed for publication.

Please allow up to 2 weeks for a response. Our staff is working very hard on multiple deadlines and projects, and will require sufficient time for review.

All submissions must be original, and exclusive to Surface Design Journal. We will not consider articles that have already been published, in any form, in print or online.

ims to synthesize theoretically informed, empirical and policy-relevant research that advances scholarly understanding across three interconnected dimensions of media reform:

1. Regulatory and Institutional Transformation: Examining the development of independent, transparent and accountable regulatory architectures capable of navigating complex digital environments while fiercely safeguarding freedom of expression, democratic participation and human rights.

2. Digital Infrastructure, Security and Information Integrity: Investigating emerging threats associated with cybersecurity, state and non-state disinformation, deepfakes, algorithmic amplification, automated propaganda and computational approaches to content verification.

3. Professional Sustainability and Ethical Media Practice: Exploring viable pathways toward sustainable journalism, media pluralism, newsroom resilience, professional ethical codes and alternative funding models within highly polarized or fragile political economies.

Indicative Timeline

11 June 2026: Official Launch and International Circulation of the Call for Papers

11 September 2026: Deadline for Abstract Submissions (~500 words) and Short Author Biography

11 October 2026: Notification of Abstract Acceptance & Invitation for Full Papers

11 March 2027: Deadline for Full Paper Submission

11 June 2027: Peer Review Feedback Returned to Authors

11 September 2027: Submission of Revised Manuscripts

1 December 2027: Final Editorial Submission to Intellect Publishers

March 2028: Publication of Special Issue (Volume 19.1)

The Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR) invites submissions for its forthcoming thematic issue, Lands of Fear: Gothic and Horror in Literature, Art, and Culture, scheduled for publication in Vol. 14.2.

From haunted architectures and spectral returns to ecological anxieties, monstrous bodies, uncanny technologies, and the terror of contemporary existence, Gothic and Horror Studies continue to provide fertile ground for exploring the cultural, political, psychological, and aesthetic fears that shape both past and present societies. The Gothic mode, in its many manifestations, remains uniquely positioned to interrogate liminality, trauma, desire, repression, otherness, memory, and the instability of the human subject in times of crisis and transformation.

This thematic issue seeks to explore the multiple forms, genealogies, and mutations of the Gothic and the Horrific across literary, artistic, audiovisual, and cultural productions. We welcome contributions engaging with canonical traditions as well as emerging perspectives and transnational approaches.

If there is one key defining concept without which the ‘cultural turns’ (Bachman-Medick's term) of the past decades cannot be fully understood, it is the notion of community. The profound social, political, cultural, and scientific transformations that mark modernity and our contemporary days have radically changed the way collective structures relate to one another and within their own formation. Consequently, the concept of community has increasingly gained popularity due to its centrality to contemporary debates on belonging, identity, relationality, and (non-)human coexistence.

Traditional readings of community define it around shared identity, territory, ethnicity, religion, or national belonging. Conversely, and moving beyond these essentialist categories, foundational works by Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot, Roberto Esposito, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Victor Turner, and J. Hillis Miller have argued in favor of community as a fragile, relational, and ethically unfinished mode of coexistence. Therefore, these challenges have resulted in the opening of new perspectives to grasp literature, culture, politics, and ethics from a renewed communitarian lens.

Miller defines ‘community’ in his foreword to the volume of Secrecy and Community in 21st-century Fiction as “a group of people who share many assumptions and experiences” (2021, xiii). This apparently simple definition complicates the whole debate because contemporary literary studies have increasingly turned to questions of relationality, hospitality, intimacy, secrecy, trust, vulnerability, trauma, ecology, and collective memory to understand community, therefore, demonstrating the centrality of the concept as a critical framework for understanding both texts and the worlds they imagine.

This special issue seeks to bring together scholars working on community from diverse angles. We welcome contributions that engage with Community Studies exploring how literary and cultural productions imagine, construct, challenge, or reconfigure forms of being-in-common. In doing so, the issue also builds on a growing body of scholarship that has examined the significance of community in twentieth- and twenty-first- century literature, including the foundational work of Martín-Salván, Rodríguez Salas, and Jiménez Heffernan (2013), as well as López and Villar-Argáiz (2021) and Pérez-de-Luque and Martín-Salván (2025). This special issue aims to extend these conversations by fostering new interdisciplinary dialogues on the multiple forms, possibilities, and limits of being together in contemporary culture.

Topics of Interest

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Community, alterity, and vulnerability: studies of how communities negotiate difference, otherness, and exclusion.

• Community and the politics of transparency, opacity and secrecy: approaches that examine secrecy, unknowability, and the limits of mutual understanding and/or its counterpart: visibility, disclosure, surveillance, and the demand for openness within communal life.

• Poetics of affects, intimacy, and community: investigations of personal relationships as sites of communal formation and negotiation and analyses of emotions, attachment, and shared feelings in the construction of communities.

• Representations of violence in community: investigations of how communities are sustained, challenged, or fractured through violence.

• Ecological and multispecies communities: examinations of relationships between human and non-human forms of life.

• Indigenous communities and decolonial perspectives: studies of Indigenous forms of belonging and decolonial critiques of dominant community models.

• Community and Genres: explorations of literary and sociopolitical genres from the lens of communitarian theory.

• Community in Western and frontier narratives: examinations of settlement, mobility, violence, and belonging in frontier spaces.

• Community and migration: studies of displacement, mobility, and the formation of new communal bonds.

• Community and diaspora: explorations of transnational identities, memory, and dispersed forms of belonging.

• Community, trauma and memory: investigations of shared suffering, postmemory, and communal recovery.

• Comparative approaches to community across cultures: cross-cultural and transnational analyses of communal practices, representations, and theories.

• Submissions may focus on any literary period, genre, national tradition, or cultural medium.

Authors can reach the guest editors with any question at adrian.arana@ehu.eus and patricia.garcia@uco.es.

Submission Guidelines

• Be written in English.

• Follow MLA 9th edition style.

• Be between 4,000 and 8,000 words, including notes and works cited.

• Present original and unpublished research.

• Undergo double-blind peer review.

Our digital journal, Folding Chair, is a space for conversations, perspectives, and storytelling on gender equality, intersectional feminism, violence against women and girls, and social justice.

For 2026, we're seeking writing, photography and film submissions from diverse voices that spark conversation and move us closer to equity. 

Submissions are open globally. Any work published by Folding Chair will be paid commensurate with experience.

Since its first publication in 2007, Artifact has focused on practice-based, constructive, and artistic design research of the highest international level aimed at strengthening knowledge production and sharing in the international design research community. Artifact promotes discourse and ideas in support of the creation of new knowledge related to contextual, foundational, conceptual, empirical as well as methodological issues and advancements that contribute to the proliferation of rigorous practices of artistic, practice-based, and constructive design research – see below for aims and scope of the journal.  

The journal only welcomes submissions that answer to posted calls for papers. All original research papers are subject to double-blind peer-review, but the journal also welcomes research commentaries and essays (not subject to double-blind peer-review) – please inquire with the editorial team to learn more about these (non-peer reviewed formats).

Submissions

To submit an article, please follow the 'Submit' button on the left of this page.

Download the Notes for Contributors above for information on format and style of submissions. If you need this document in a more accessible format, please contact info@intellectbooks.com. Find more information on Intellect's Accessibility page.

• All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

• Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. 

AIMS & SCOPE

• Call for Papers

• Editorial board

ABSTRACTING & INDEXING

• CONTENT

• Open Access licence agreement

Artifact: Journal of Design Practice is a Diamond Open Access journal. It does not charge APCs or submission fees, and is funded by The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design and Conservation.

Artifact aims to publish high-quality academic papers that strives to reach beyond disciplinary and topical boundaries to support exchange and cross-fertilization of insights and methodologies pertaining to multiple issues of advancing design research practice within the domains of practice-based, constructive and artistic design research.

The journal welcomes contributions that answer to active calls for papers only. The editors welcome both conceptual and empirical papers.

All articles and research notes are subject to double-blind peer-review.

All submission must include a signed Open Access publishing agreement giving us your permission to publish your paper should it be accepted by our peer review panel. Authors can choose from a CC BY or CC BY NC licence. Please see the publishing agreement for more information on the licence terms. 

Submissions should engage transnational, historical, or genealogical approaches

to art education, broadly conceived. Genealogies are widely viewed as forms of

historical mapping that display how ideas, practices and frameworks evolve through complex, multisided pathways (Sutters 2023). This can include the intellectual histories of pedagogical concepts as they circulate globally; the movement of materials and techniques across educational systems and cultural traditions; or the adaptation and resistance of curriculum frameworks within new political and cultural contexts. Such approaches challenge assumptions of single origins and instead reveal layered, contested and relational histories of art education practice.

This issue also emphasizes reflexive historiography. Authors are encouraged to

consider how histories are constructed, whose voices are included or excluded and

how methodological choices shape interpretation (Staikidis, 2025; Wexler 2025).

This includes attention to archival gaps, positionality and ethical engagement with

communities. In dialogue with decolonial, Indigenous and relational approaches

(Tuhiwai Smith 2021; Ballengee Morris and Willis 2025), the issue seeks work that

not only expands historical narratives but also critically examines the conditions

under which knowledge is produced and validated.

Potential topics include:

• Art, craft and design education

• Formal and informal education contexts

• Meaning making, image and identity in art education

• Public, community and environmental art

• Pedagogy and emerging technologies Policy and practice

• Trans-cultural issues

• Visual communication and culture

Submissions may be either:

• Articles (3000–5000 words, 1–6 images)

• Research Projects / Project Reports (3000 words, 1–4 images)

• Visual Essays (1000 words or fewer, 10–15 images)

Timeline:

Abstract (300 words) deadline: 28 February 2027

Full article submission deadline: 1 August 2027

Publication date: Spring 2029