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CALL FOR PAPERS: PRISONS, PEACE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
(DEADLINE EXTENDED)
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice (Routledge) is dedicating a special issue, gPrisons, Peace, and Social Justice,h to exploring the intersection of Peace Studies and Prison Studies, two burgeoning interdisciplinary fields that promise to challenge basic assumptions about the modern world and offer radical analysis and possible solutions. Papers are welcome on any aspect of this issuefs theme, broadly conceived. Submissions that address global issues and perspectives are especially encouraged. Topics may include but are not limited to:
restorative justice transformative justice militarism and the carceral society theorizing the domestic and foreign genemyh critiquing deterrence based arguments for war and prison books not bombs, education not incarceration: a penal/war economy, public education, and democracy peacemaking as a viable alternative to aggression and banishment rethinking occupation and criminality war at the borders: immigrant detention and the right to free movement forgiveness and the death penalty invisible legacies: psychological trauma from war and incarceration LGBT oppression and state violence capitalist globalization and the normalization of cages and weaponry philosophical arguments about human nature in Peace Studies and Prison Studies race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, and the criminalized Other anti-prison pacifist philosophies and practices prison as a tool of war, imperialism, white supremacy, and class domination violence of the gwar on crimeh against partners/spouses, children, and communities political prisoners and prisoners of conscience looking again at retributivist ethics: the past or the future? anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and feminist critiques of the roots of war and incarceration glock eem uph and gshoot eem uph masculinities: toward alternative, liberatory gender constructions nature of things: war, prison, and environmental racism crosscultural analysis of non-violent, non-carceral attempts to remedy conflict with social justice pedagogies of peace, freedom, and reconciliation taking steps toward realizing the gimpossibleh: coalition-building and other strategies for a world without walls and wars
All submissions are due by May 11, 2011 and should be prepared for anonymous review. Please consult the complete instructions for authors before submitting: http://usf.usfca.edu/peacereview/guidelines.htm Send papers (and abstracts of 50-100 words) to both co-editors of this special issue: Jason L. Mallory, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, jmallor1@binghamton.edu and Mechthild E. Nagel, Professor of Philosophy at SUNY-Cortland, nagelm@cortland.edu.
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