Submissions
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About
Critical Disaster Studies is the flagship journal of the Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Program in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Critical Disaster Studies seeks to explore and outline the contours of a critically grounded anthropological approach to the study of disasters. Scholarship under the broad rubric of disaster studies has moved over the last few years beyond examining the interplay of natural hazards and human social conditions in shaping disasters, into new terrains examining linkages and continuities via frameworks such as vulnerability, resilience, risk and adaptation. Some recent studies foreground the workings of neoliberalism in the production of vulnerability, while others focus attention on the continuities of racial, class and gender inequalities in placing historically marginalized populations at the receiving end of both disasters as well as strategies of recovery. We invite contributions that seek to break new ground in productively linking concerns with risk, vulnerability, resilience, and recovery, and ongoing analyses of exploitation, resistance and revolutionary possibility.
Focus and Scope
Full-length Academic Papers
Papers in CDS address the problem of disasters from critical perspectives by bringing into the analytical framework of disaster studies several related bodies of knowledge: the broad social scientific literature on climate science and its insights into the planetary ecological effects of anthropogenic activities, studies that examine the manner in which contemporary capitalism, untethered from nominal public controls since the advent of neoliberalism, reorganizes populations, resources and environments in relationships that exacerbate ecological vulnerabilities while substantially removing from public purview and control priorities vital to life and well-being, and studies that foreground and engage with the continuities of historic patterns of structural violence along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality. In doing so we seek to promote critical inquiry into the complex interplay of structures and processes tied to the continuities and disjunctures characterizing colonial and neocolonial relationships, the legacies and shifting contours of underdevelopment, and the problems and prospects for a politics of resistance in the contested terrains that are disaster outcomes.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
We invite proposals for book reviews and review essays. Please send your proposals to the editor (rswamy1@utk.edu). Your proposal should describe the book you intend to review (or books in the case of review essays), the relevance of your selection/s to the aims and purposes of Critical Disaster Studies, and an anticipated submission date. Book reviews should be between 800-1000 words in length, while review essays can be up to 2,000 words.
CDS Dispatches
We welcome short and focused submissions that draw attention to a topical issue or theme that might be presented in a range of formats, including but not limited to reflective narratives, photo essays, and multimedia. These submissions need not be based on original research, and will be assessed for relevance and reviewed by the editor. We encourage you to contact the editor (mailto://rswamy1@utk.edu) if you have any questions in this regard.
Copyright Notice
In keeping with best practices for open access publication CDS licenses all works under the Creative Commons CC Attribution (CC-BY) license. Considered a gold standard in open access publishing, a CC-BY does not replace a copyright. Rather, by accepting its terms, a copyright owner participates in a standardized method for granting certain permissions to users, ensuring maximum dissemination of their works as well as optimal circulation of research and ideas.
All CC licenses require attribution. The CC-BY is the most flexible, allowing users to distribute, adapt, or build-upon the works so long as the copyright holder is attributed. Works licensed under the CC-BY are considered “Approved for Free Cultural Works”, which are defined as readily used, shared, and remixed by others, and go furthest in creating a commons of freely reusable materials.
Authors Who Publish With This Journal Agree to the Following Terms:
1. Copyright holders retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC-BY that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Copyright holders are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
3. All accepted articles will be available without delay with no embargo period.
Peer Review
This journal operates a double anonymous, peer review policy.
Licenses
The following license is allowed:
CC BY 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Publication Fees
Critical Disaster Studies does not charge a fee to submit to or access the journal content. This journal operates as a diamond open access journal.
Publication Cycle
This journal publishes continuously all year round.
Sections
| Section or article type | Public Submissions | Peer Reviewed | Indexed |
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