CfP: Direct Democracy Practices at the Local Level

Many studies focus on the impact of direct democracy in politics. More and more countries institutionalized tools of direct democracy in order to give stronger legitimacy to political decisions. At the same time, many governments resist the institutionalization of such procedures as if they contradicted the principles of representative government. At the local level, the situation seems to be less dramatized.

CfP: Rising up against institutional racism in the Americas and beyond

Call for papers volume 13 issue 1 (May-June 2021)

Rising up against institutional racism in the Americas and beyond

Elisabet Rasch and Heike Schaumberg

The May-June 2021 issue of the open-access, online, copy left academic/activist journal Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements (http://www.interfacejournal.net/) will focus on themes relevant to understanding and registering the popular responses and uprisings to racism.

CfP: New Global Studies Special Issue on Global Labor and Supply Chains

Robert Ovetz
robert.ovetz@sjsu.edu

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
jake.Wilson@csulb.edu

We are currently accepting manuscript submissions for a special issue of New Global Studies on Global Labor and Supply Chains to be published in late 2021 or early 2022. To learn more about New Global Studies visit https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/ngs/ngs-overview.xml

Review of African Political Economy is seeking Editorial Working Group affiliates

The Review of African Political Economy is looking for two affiliates to join the journal's Editorial Working Group (EWG) for a year starting from January 2021.

  

We are particularly interested in applications from activists in the African diaspora who have a passion and a focus on Africa's politics, history, and economics.