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Call for Articles for L'Histoire Volume 4, Issue 1, a Biannual Magazine of the Social Sciences

Organization: Voyages into the Past
Categories: Digital Humanities, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy
Event Date: 2025-08-01 Abstract Due: 2025-06-15

CFP Topic: Chasing Equity

In general, rights are regarded as a legal or moral recognition of interests and choices of individuals or communities, entitling them to have certain things or do certain things without any probable repercussion. Even before the advent of justiciable rights, one can notice the existence of certain prerogatives which were primarily maintained through unwritten social conventions and often varied regionally. People generally acquired such rights because of their membership to a certain group be it a family, a religion, a class or a community.

In the history of humanity, the struggle for securing rights has been a long and arduous process rather than a unidirectional and uninterrupted one. One can find several instances of rights, that were earned as a result of immense struggle, being arbitrarily revoked. In the pages of L'Histoire's upcoming edition, we wish to not only trace the trajectory of how various kinds of rights were shaped but also to shed light on how the process of gaining equity and liberation can be quite elusive in nature.

Defining and liberating the self scarcely follows a planned trajectory. Rather, this process takes unprecedented turns, ultimately leading to the formation of a fractal self, which at its core remains random, chaotic, and complex. This remains one of the themes that this issue seeks to explore. Here, we use the term 'self' not only to refer to the individual but also the self-image or self-construction of a community as well.

Voyages into the Past invites students, scholars, and academics to delve into the theme and contribute to a deeper understanding of rights.

Below are some of the possible themes:

  1. The Elusive Nature of Rights: Reversals and curtailments.
  2. Dissent in the Fractal Self: Analysing the complex relationship between individual and community rights in the face of populism throughout history.
  3. From Exclusion towards the Goal of Inclusion: Tracing the development of universal rights and analysing extant limitations
  4. Struggle for rights under colonial rule and the idea of rights in a decolonized world.
  5. The Gendered Body in Protest: Analysing Gender and LGBTQIA+ rights in an environment of growing state repression.
  6. Tracing historical disparities and discrimination and analysing how they have shaped community identities.
  7. Contested Loyalties: Individual agency and the challenge to state-sanctioned values.
  8. Beyond The Numbers: Human Rights in the face of genocide.
  9. Intersections, Issues and The Linguistic Gap: Communicating Subaltern Struggle to the Dominant.
  10. Anonymity, Precaution and Custodial Torture: Studying the numerous dimensions of prisoners' right and its comparative oversight.
  11. Enforcement and exercise of rights for Foreign Nationals in host countries.
  12. Looking into vulnerability and oppression resultant from arbitrary state-sanctioned revision in laws like in BNS (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita).

This is not an exhaustive list and we welcome topics and writings on fields related to the theme of the author's choice.

If you wish to enquire about the same, please mail the editors at editor.voyages2023@gmail.com.

To read earlier volumes, click here: https://www.voyagesintothepast.com/thistoire-1

Standardized guidelines for submission include:

  1. Font Size: 12
  2. Font Style: Times New Roman
  3. Line Spacing: 1.5
  4. Page Numbers to be included.
  5. The endnotes must be single-spaced in Times New Roman 10 point size font.
  6. All citations should be included as endnote citations. Refrain from using both in-text citations and endnote citations.
  7. The endnotes and bibliography should follow the rules of the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition.
  8. Entries to be no longer than 5000 words.
  9. If images are used in the essay, please include them in the form of an annexure at the very end of the essay.

We would recommend that jargon be avoided as best as possible. This magazine straddles academic and public spheres, and thus, is aimed at a mixed audience.

Submit all essays via google form - https://forms.gle/eb64LByihVxjQ8VYA

The deadline for submissions is 15th June 2025

Happy writing!

 

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