[Linganth] call for proposals: Revolutionary Papers -- special issue of Radical History

[Ilana Gershon]

*Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, -Politics and -Cultures of 
Anticolonial Periodicals in the Global South*
Issue number 150 (October 2024)
/Abstract Deadline:/June 15, 2022
/Co-Edited/by Mahvish Ahmad, Chana Morgenstern, Koni Benson, and Alex 
Lichtenstein

/Radical History Review/seeks contribution for a special issue entitled 
Revolutionary Papers. This issue will examine periodicals and other 
print ephemera—including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, 
magazines, and pamphlets—as sites of Left, anti-imperial, and 
anti-colonial critical production across the Global South. During 
struggles against colonialism, Apartheid, and postcolonial violence, 
revolutionary papers generated oppositional networks, critical politics, 
left mobilizations, literary scenes, and alternative artistic practices. 
Often produced in exile, forced underground, or excluded from 
traditional sites of intellectual production such as the university, 
they served as conduits and catalysts of collective critique and 
literature, discussion, and political or cultural self-definition. 
Political and cultural dissenters relied on the periodical’s 
flexibility, circulatory power, and capacity to foster intellectual and 
literary scenes to fashion new fields of thought. Editors and 
contributors developed analyses, critiques, and alternative visions 
through records of debates, clubs and gatherings, essays, letters to the 
editor, translations, news, local and international literature, 
photography, and visual art.  With left periodicals as their 
communicative tools, they developed unique political vocabularies that 
addressed local concerns while linking them to global revolutionary 
praxis. The left periodical manifested in vastly different forms—from 
guerilla newsletters to internationalist literary magazines. 
Contributors are invited to select and present from any genre they 
regard as relevant, to consider its creation, form, content, readership, 
“oral infrastructure,” and circulation and to interrogate the nature of 
the periodical’s radicalism. In line with our commitments to 
anti-colonial and anti-authoritarian praxis today we also invite 
reflections on the political significance of revisiting revolutionary 
papers in our current moment of renewed protest against the continuities 
and legacies of colonialism. We seek submissions that explore how 
periodicals: Forged counter-institutions, e.g.:

  * the role of periodicals in establishing alternatives to colonial and
    authoritarian postcolonial state infrastructures–including
    intellectual and cultural establishments
  * the political, cultural, organizational, or other interventions by
    the periodical
  * the archives of revolutionary papers and the periodical as archive

Articulated counter-political vocabularies, e.g.:

  * the place of revolutionary papers in forging anti-colonial,
    anti-authoritarian ideas, and struggles, and in defining what was
    “radical” at a particular moment
  * non-canonical vocabularies of analysis and critique produced and
    disseminated through radical periodicals
  * pedagogical practices and oral circulation that use radical,
    self-produced periodicals (including text and visuals) from southern
    movements in university and movement education spaces

Created counter-cultures, e.g.:

  * periodicals’ role in the formation of oppositional literatures and
    arts practices
  * explorations of literary circles defining the aesthetic and social
    parameters of radicalism and its production as they published and
    disseminated new work
  * how specific periodicals helped shape anti-colonial, Marxist,
    national, feminist and other collective literatures

The/RHR/publishes material in a variety of forms including Historians at 
Work; Teaching Radical History; Public History; Interviews; and 
(Re)Views. In addition to monographic articles based on archival 
research, the co-editors of this issue invite scholars, 
activists/organizers, and movement collectives to submit in various 
forms. This can include interviews, roundtables, curated arts 
contributions—including working with periodical cover art and related 
poster collections, reviews, pedagogies, and reflections. We welcome 
submissions that use images as well as text (but please note that the 
journal has no funds for image reproductions and permissions).

*Submission Guidelines:*By June 15, 2022, please submit a title and 
abstract (of 800 words max) for your proposed submission as a Word or 
PDF file attachment 
torevolutionarypapers at gmail.comandcontactrhr@gmail.comwith “Issue 150 
Abstract Submission” in the subject line. Please focus your abstract on 
one (or more) organizational, political, or cultural intervention by the 
periodical(s) in question. We ask that abstracts include a short bio 
(max 100 words) and a description of the selected periodical(s), 
including where relevant:

 1. Title(s)
 2. Circulation period(s) and region(s)
 3. Publication language(s)
 4. Type(s) (e.g., was it a weekly magazine or ad hoc guerilla bulletin)
 5. Name of the editorial collective(s) or movement(s) responsible for
    publication (if applicable)
 6. Digital copy of periodical cover (if available).

By October 1, 2022, authors will be notified whether they should submit 
a full version of their article for peer review, which will be due by 
February 1, 2023. Articles selected for publication after the peer 
review process will be included in issue 150 of the Radical History 
Review, scheduled to appear in October, 2024.

For more information about the Revolutionary Papers research 
network:https://revolutionarypapers.org/ <https://revolutionarypapers.org/>

*Abstract Deadline:*June 15, 2022
*Contact:*revolutionarypapers at gmail.comand<mailto:contactrhr at gmail.com>contactrhr at gmail.com

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