SJRI

Global Garveyism: Diasporic Aspirations and Utopian Dreams

Edited by Ronald J. Stephens and Adam Ewing

Call for Manuscripts

Established by Marcus Garvey with the assistance of Amy Ashwood in Jamaica in 1914, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, hereafter UNIA) emerged as the largest and most influential Black Nationalist organization of the twentieth century. During a period of global instability and political reorganization, the UNIA’s injunction to challenge European colonial rule, racial discrimination, and global white supremacy resonated with millions of black men and women around the world. Promoting racial unity, cultural pride, and economic cooperation and development, the organization eventually spread to approximately one thousand chapters in more than forty countries. Its influence was also manifest in political organizations, trade unions, welfare associations, immigration societies, churches, and millennial religious movements that did not maintain a formal association with the UNIA.
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Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme

Call for Papers: Women in the Social and Environmental Justice

Winter/Spring 2015

This special issue of Canadian Woman Studies’ (CWS/cf) will focus on the social and environmental crises which threaten the preservation of life on our planet. It requires feminist attention to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism and to unmask ‘answers’ and ‘false solutions’ that obscure the current situation.

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Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme

Call for Papers: Women’s Human Rights

Fall/Winter 2015

This special double issue of Canadian Woman Studies’ (CWS/cf) will focus on feminist women’s human rights theory and activism as a visionary framework for movement-building and social change, activism and education, considering both the historical trajectory of this movement, current efforts, challenges and debates, as well as possibilities for the future in troubled times. Since a locally-grounded, globally-engaged transnational women’s movement led to the international recognition in the 1990s that women’s rights are human rights, many women from all regions have organized under this shared banner while simultaneously shaping human rights discourse according to their unique and diverse needs, perspectives, and visions for a just world.

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Academic Journal

Are you a student, activist, independent writer or journalist who has written an in-depth research piece and want the chance to publish it in a legitimate peer-reviewed journal? We have come to answer your prayers.

We are looking for 1500 words on the following topics:

• Food justice
• Food literacy
• Food waste
• Urban agriculture
• Current food policy in Toronto
• Sustainable agriculture
• Food access
• Innovative food projects

OR pitch us your own ideas.

Submission deadline: May 31, 2015

Please email all submissions to journal@tyfpc.ca.

Are you interested in media coverage of social justice issues?

You are invited to participate in a focus group interview about media, activism, and celebrity for a research project that is currently being conducted in the Niagara Region. The purpose of this research is to gain greater insight into how people in Canada and the US engage in activism, what they think of media coverage of social engagement, and how they interpret celebrities who endorse causes or campaigns. Given the wide range of social issues and causes that celebrities become involved with, this study seeks to engage with audience members from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. No knowledge of celebrities is required to participate in this study.

Volunteers will take part in one interview in either Saint Catharines, ON, or Buffalo, NY, that lasts approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour. Interviews will take place during March and April 2015.

Each participant will be entered in a drawing for a $25 gift card.

This study is funded by Fulbright Canada and approved by the Brock University Research Ethics Board and the Institutional Review Board of Salem College.

Please contact Dr. Spring Duvall with questions or to volunteer.