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CALL FOR PAPERS, JOURNAL OF POVERTY
JOURNAL OF POVERTY
Special Issue
Land and Cultural Dispossession and Resistance: Afrodescendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Editors: Stephen Haymes (DePaul University-Chicago, USA), Vladimir Nunez (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Bogota, Colombia), Llewellyn Cornelius (University of Georgia-Athens, USA)
Background/Rationale:
The historical legacy of Afrodescendent and indigenous peoples in the Americas has been shaped by what Anibal Qujano refers to as the “colonality of power” of Western capitalist modernity. This model of racialized power along with its ideals of development, nature, gender and knowledge has resulted in the annihilation of other worlds, specifically Afrodescendent and indigenous. Thus, for example, in Latin America at the hands of international finance, extractive industries; and governments these populations have disproportionatly been the victims of political and social violence, land and cultural dispossession, climate and water injustice, and environmental destruction. Likewise, the promotion of tourism as an industry in the Caribbean Basin, the Southern coast of United States, and also in Latin America, has created both a dependent economy and the dislocation of indigenous and Afrodescendent populations from coastal areas to support the development of seaside hotels and resorts which block access to beaches. The forced displacement, migration and dispossession of rural communities in the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States to isolated urban and suburban ghettos has resulted in, for example, food and socio-environmental injustice, and political, economic and geographical isolation.
This special double issue of the Journal of Poverty focuses on documenting the 21 st century consequences of the coloniality of power, as it relates to, for example, extractivist and tourist industries, cultural and land dispossession, forced displacement and migration, climate, water and food injustice, cognitive injustice, and the environmental destruction of Afrodescendent and indigenous communities in the Americas. Along with this, the special double issue is especially interested in submissions that integrate as part of their analysis and discussion the forms of resistance by these communities.
Preference will be given to submissions theoretically and conceptually grounded in critically oriented perspectives in the social sciences and humanities and also in, for example, race and ethnic studies, Africana studies, Latin American studies, communication studies, critical intercultural studies, urban studies, women and gender studies, queer studies, educational studies, indigenous studies, environmental studies, political ecology, development studies, migration studies and decolonial and postcolonial studies.
Tentative Timeline:
Issue Call for Papers: April 2020 Submission Deadline. March 31, 2021 Publication: Fall 2021
