Peace Review, a Routledge/Taylor & Francis quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal of research and analysis, welcomes original contributions, policy analyses, and research for a special issue devoted to the topic of Literature, Film, and Human Rights. This special issue will consider how the disciplines of literary/film studies and human rights may be brought into conversation in ways that contribute to progressive work in peace and conflict studies.
Potential topics include:
the role of cultural production in shaping, framing, perpetuating, or intervening in world events with human rights implications;
contributions of artistic, narrative, and cultural approaches to human rights practices and theories;
theoretical challenges, rewards, and limitations of human rights approaches to literature and film, on the one hand, and visual and textual approaches to human rights, on the other;
potential audience responses to literary or cinematic representations of human rights violations (witnessing, consuming, eroticizing, etc.);
ethical claims in literary and cinematic representations of human rights violations, and the ethics of representing historical atrocity;
specific human rights events depicted through the (literary and cinematic) stories that are told and circulated about them; and
analyses of specific texts or films through the lens of human rights theories, conventions, and practices
Interested participants should submit essays (2500-3500 words) and 2-3 line bios to Peace Review (peacereview@usfca.edu
Peace Review publishes essays on ideas and research in peace studies, broadly defined. Our essays are relatively short (2500-3500 words), and are intended for a wide readership. We are most interested in the cultural and political issues surrounding conflicts occurring between nations and peoples. Since we are a transnational journal (we distribute to more than 40 nations), we want to avoid speaking with the voice of any particular national culture or politics. Relevant topics include war, violence, human rights, political economy, development, culture and consciousness, the environment, and related issues. Generally, we do not reprint essays that have been published elsewhere.
Please send essays on this theme by October 15, 2007. Essays should run between 2500 and 3500 words, and should be jargon- and footnote- free. See Submission Guidelines at:
http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html.
Send essays to:
Peace Review
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
USA
or by email:
peacereview@usfca.edu
Kerry Donoghue
Managing Editor, Peace Review
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Phone: 415-422-2910
Email: peacereview@usfca.edu
http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html