Call for papers and monograph issues

Architecture and urban liveability

Cities should be plural and inclusive spaces. However, our city models produce vulnerabilities and instability that affect some communities more than others. The journal is therefore interested in texts that explore architectural proposals that address ecological and socio-economic biases related to gender, old age and childhood, as well as the displacement of living beings (birds, plants, insects, bacteria) and the co-opting of ecological resources (water, air, energy and time).

The impact of language on social order

The language constitutes us as a society, defining our relationships with the world and the realities we allow in. This is why the journal is interested in papers that analyse the presence of neologisms, barbarisms, etymologies, new grammars, semantic inversions, the irruption of artificial intelligence in natural language, the reappropriation of terminologies and other (de)colonising dynamics, and lastly the political implications of demands from citizens and governments for clear language.

Extinction and replacement: ethical dilemmas and scientific controversies in rebuilding the natural environment

The loss of biological diversity has led us to think about ecological balances and worry about how they are affected by human action. Ideas on restoration that are being proposed to address these situations, such as rewilding, are both hopeful and problematic. We invite you to think, from a critical perspective, about what it means today in ethical and ontological terms to restore environments, to decide to (re)incorporate or substitute species according to an intended function, about how we construct the virtues of a wild landscape and ways of projecting the temporalities that are embedded in these processes.

New and old colonialisms

The journal seeks to explore the dynamics of colonialisms – linguistic, economic, media, representative, genetic – and how they manifest themselves today in data extractivism or cultural re-appropriation, among other possible expressions. We are interested in how communities are affected, how these colonising practices define or exclude us as political subjects, how they condition the possibilities of plural coexistence and how, in parallel, they have triggered responses aimed at decolonisation.

Thought on margins and building futures

Sometimes we place ourselves on the margins: urban, political, social, cultural, biological margins. The periphery or the crevice become the place of dissidence, and from there marginality becomes an option from which possibilities and strategies to build futures open up. Among possible objects of marginal dissidence are: production of new creative genres not only made for consumption (slow listening, alternative body theatres), economies of slow production and decrease, border geopolitics (e.g. chicanismo), and other forms of expression of an active and propositional marginality.