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Call for Submissions: Journal of Visual Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Journal of Visual Culture (JVC) is inviting article submissions in consideration for its upcoming open issues.

Timeline: 
Deadlines for Full Paper Submission:

4 November 2024 (planned publication date: April 2025)

4 February 2025 (planned publication date: August 2025)

4 April 2025 (planned publication date: December 2025)

Submission website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vcu

We are looking for critically informed and original interpretations that provide insights into social, political, philosophical or aesthetic concerns and illuminate phenomena that shape visual cultures from global and trans-disciplinary perspectives. We welcome provocative, innovative analyses of visual cultures, especially those that challenge conventional approaches and methods of inquiry.

Recent publications have covered topics such as trans art and visual culture, environmental violence and testimony, Palestine, visual activism revisited, and the critical role that art and aesthetics play in processes of reparation. Those contributing to issues recently include: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Homi K. Bhabha, Marquis Bey, Jill Casid, Kareem Estefan, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Shannon Mattern, Lisa Nakamura, Jussi Parikka, Jasbir K. Puar, Dylan Robinson, Stephen Sheehi, Julietta Singh, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, and Eyal Weizman.

JVC is committed to supporting the research of PhD students and early career researchers, in addition to those that are more established, thereby fostering intergenerational communities of practice internationally.

Suitable submissions will be double-anonymised peer reviewed.

In addition to our refereed journal published by SAGE, we will consider essays, interviews, exhibition reviews, book forums, and themed dossiers for our online and open access magazine. The JVC Magazine is dedicated to quick publishing on pressing matters and welcomes shorter and multimedia-rich contributions from academics, activists, artists, and all those interested in the diverse political landscapes of visual cultures. Some recent contributions include essays by Nicholas Mirzoeff and Ana Teixeira Pinto, and a dossier on extractivism.

Submission Instructions

Full length papers between 5,000-8,000 words in length, inclusive of the abstract of 150 words, 5 keywords, references, figure captions, and endnotes should be submitted online to ScholarOne Manuscripts no later than the date(s) listed above.

If you have any questions, or would like to contact us for initial consideration do not hesitate to email the Editors at: jvcopencall@gmail.com

Guidelines: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/VCU

Shorter research articles 1,500-3,000 words in length for The JVC Magazine are considered on a rolling basis. Please submit to our magazine editor, Eray Çaylı, eray.cayli@uni-hamburg.de.

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