About WKO

Editorial Statement • Submission Information • Editorial Collective

 

Editorial Statement

WKO is a web dossier whose intent is to promote scholarly debate directly impinging on socio-economic, legal-political, and ethico-philosophical issues around the world. Implicit in this goal is the intention to link scholarly work and social transformation. A second goal, indicated by the title of the web dossier, is to promote dialogue between different geo-historical locations, with the conviction that the future can no longer be imagined from one single and overarching perspective and its internal diversity. Conflicts around the world today involve people and societies with languages and principles of knowledges embedded in those languages, other than the languages and knowledges of the Western world. Each dossier, according to these principles, will bring together arguments about interrelated topics made in different local histories and therefore inserted in different traditions.

 

Submission Information

Each WKO dossier is a collection of diverse but interrelated articles on a carefully chosen topic, along with solicited commentaries upon those articles, put together and coordinated by one or two individuals in discussion with and under the guidance of the editorial collective. In other words, WKO is not a web journal but a web dossier.

There will be three or four articles in each dossier, either specifically written for WKO or previously published elsewhere. It is our essential vision to include articles and commentaries written from or about different locations in the world and from as many different disciplinary formations or social practices as possible (e.g., by journalists, leaders of social movements, activists, artists, videomakers, persons with techno-social experiences). Accordingly, articles originally written in languages other than English are encouraged, translations to be arranged by the coordinator(s) of the dossier.

Given the distinctive features of this new format for communication and dissemination of ideas as they’re being developed—specifically, as reflected by the concept of a dossier in contrast to the existing mainstream academic journal format—we are not in a position to consider individual article submissions. However, we encourage proposals for specific dossiers. A proposal should include

Full manuscripts of articles and commentaries (in original language and translation in English) will be requested upon approval of a dossier for publication.

For more information, please contact tracy.carhart@duke.edu

 

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