Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Interview
Original interviews with leaders, activists, strategists, organizers, writers, poets, filmmakers, artists, actors and others from specific emancipatory movements.
Invited Commentary
This section is for commentary solicited by PJSE editors.
Research Paper
This section is for original research articles. The peer reviewers will help the editors make decisions based on the following:
The reported work’s design and method.
Acknowledgement of existing body of work.
See if all possible interpretations are considered.
Conclusions are not too preliminary or speculative or too fixed.
The relevance of the article to the specific emancipatory movement.
Accountability to the communities cited in the article.
Clarity about the demographic details of the cited communities and generalizations pertaining to them.
Review
Reviews of specific topics, books, and issues of relevance to social equality.
Journalistic Article
Articles pertaining to current news, events, and issues.
Translation
At present we accept translations into the English language.
Prespectives from Emancipatory Movements
This section is dedicated to perspectives from emancipatory movements and its purpose is to historically root, document, and sharpen political responses. It may include documentation and curation in varied forms: interviews, commentary, freestyle conversations, and archival material.