Journal of Resistance Studies
The Journal of Resistance Studies is an international, interdisciplinary and peer- reviewed scientific journal that explores unarmed resistance. The focus is on critical understandings of resistance strategies, discourses, tactics, effects, causes, contexts and experiences. Our aim is to advance an understanding of how resistance might undermine repression, injustices and domination of any kind, as well as how resistance might nurture autonomous subjectivity, as e.g. constructive work, alternative communities, oppositional ways of thinking.
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We publish twice a year digitally and in print, with world-wide free shipping. All articles and issues are made open access two years after publication.
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What do we want to see in submissions to Journal of Resistance Studies?
JRS receives more submissions than we can possible publish. Most of them are good articles with high academic standards. But that is not enough for the editorial board to accept them for publication. As a journal for a relatively new academic field it is important for us to publish texts that contribute to developing this specific field with theoretical ideas, high quality empirical material, interesting analysis, and/or cases from a wide spectra of societal contexts.
Crucial for inclusion in JRS is a clear focus on resistance and how acts of resistance influence power relations. That means that what constitute “resistance” and “power” (or “domination”) and how they relate need to be analyzed. It is important to understand that JRS is not simply one more journal on “social movements”. See our Policy Statement for more details.
All questions regarding the journal should be directed to: craig@resistance-journal.org.