Human Geography: A New Journal
Published by the Institute for Human Geography Inc, a non-profit charitable foundation incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, US. Mass ID number 000971232
Address: P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307 US
Email Address: insthugeog at gmail.com
Call for submissions and donations
We are starting a new journal in Human Geography broadly conceived to cover topics ranging from geopolitics, through cultural and economic issues, to political ecology. We envisage a well written, critical, intellectual journal, not full of empirical detail, and not encumbered by too many citations, a journal that can be read in its entirety. The journal will be peer reviewed -but we want to give positive, helpful reviews of papers, and not savage them or decline to publish based on minor points made by reviewers who hide behind anonymity. We plan a mix of longer papers up to 7500 words and shorter papers of up to 3000 words, with timely opinion pieces and book review essays interspersed within the body of the main text of the journal. We plan a paper version of the journal for the moment, followed soon after by a web site with multi-media content.
The proposal to start the journal is motivated by two main concerns:
(1) Need to retain control of the value produced by academic labor. Over the last twenty years, journals that once were owned and produced by universities and academic and professional associations have come to be controlled, in part or in whole, by publishing houses that increasingly are concentrated in a few multinational media conglomerates. This means that the surplus (monetary) value produced by the academic labor that writes the content of journals ends up as profit for media capital. It also means that corporations control the fund of knowledge produced by academic labor. We are determined to resist this trend -”Take Back Our Knowledge”. Hence we have founded a non-profit corporation “Institute for Human Geography Inc”, as owner of a new journal Human Geography – the Institute’s officers are drawn from the Board of Editors. This Institute will not establish relations of any kind with commercial publishing houses. Let it be clear, we are not proposing an open access, web based journal. However, individual subscriptions, when offered later this year, will be at a low cost, with institutional subscriptions at a moderate cost, and certainly less than they are being charged at the moment -multinational publishers charge institutions annual subscription rates in the range of $250-$5000 a year. A single journal can generate half a million to a million dollars a year in profit. We could use this money to sponsor radical research…but only if ownership and control over the knowledge we produce is kept out of corporate hands. As soon as we have a surplus we will announce the availability of radical-geographic research grants, and appoint a committee to administer them.
(2) Need for a new publishing outlet for articles on topics of political significance conceived from critical, perspectives. The critical politics that fueled the radical geography movement are being dissipated in philosophical-theoretical niceties and empirical evasions. Particularly, articles written from specifically Marxian philosophical-theoretical and political positions face a difficult time-young academics have to deny their radical politics to get published. While we can try to change this, we feel it is necessary to also begin a new journal that consciously favors political as well as theoretically-based articles from various left positions that definitely include socialism. Additionally the wide range of urgent social and political issues thrown up by capitalist globalization is not being fully addressed. Some of the most basic issues (the Iraq War, global finance capitalism, environmental crisis…) are hardly mentioned in the existing journals. Hence we favor a new, more extensive and politically inclusive journal of broadly, but very politically, conceived Human Geography.
So we announce the start of a new journal called Human Geography. We invite your interest, comment and support. We could use donations to fuel the start-up of the journal – please make checks out to Institute for Human Geography, and $100 gets you two years of free issues. We invite you to submit papers, opinion pieces, reviews and editorials to our editorial board. If you have an idea for a contribution let us know what you have in mind, so that we can provide immediate feedback – please email your proposal or paper to the respective editors:
Richard Peet for substantive articles
Derek Gregory for opinion pieces and editorials
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro for book reviews and review essays
Human Geography Editor: Richard Peet, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
Editorials and Opinions Editor: Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Book Review Editor: Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Department of Geography, SUNY New Paltz
Editorial Board:
Waquar Ahmed, Pennsylvania State University
Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Myrna Breitbart, Hampshire College
B.S. Butola, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ipsita Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University
Kevin Cox, Ohio State University
Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine
Annette Desmarais, University of Regina
Jody Emel, Clark University
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, State University of New York, New Paltz
Emily Gilbert, University of Toronto
Ruthie Gilmore, University of Southern California.
Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia
Jon Goss, University of Hawaii
Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia
Elaine Hartwick, Framingham State College
David Harvey, City University of New York
Andy Herod, University of Georgia
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
Maria Kaika, Manchester University
Mazen Labban, University of Miami
Jenna Loyd , Syracuse University
Human Geography: A New Journal
Human Geography: A New Journal
Published by the Institute for Human Geography Inc, a non-profit charitable foundation incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, US. Mass ID number 000971232
Address: P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307 US
Email Address: insthugeog at gmail.com
Call for submissions and donations
We are starting a new journal in Human Geography broadly conceived to cover topics ranging from geopolitics, through cultural and economic issues, to political ecology. We envisage a well written, critical, intellectual journal, not full of empirical detail, and not encumbered by too many citations, a journal that can be read in its entirety. The journal will be peer reviewed -but we want to give positive, helpful reviews of papers, and not savage them or decline to publish based on minor points made by reviewers who hide behind anonymity. We plan a mix of longer papers up to 7500 words and shorter papers of up to 3000 words, with timely opinion pieces and book review essays interspersed within the body of the main text of the journal. We plan a paper version of the journal for the moment, followed soon after by a web site with multi-media content.
The proposal to start the journal is motivated by two main concerns:
(1) Need to retain control of the value produced by academic labor. Over the last twenty years, journals that once were owned and produced by universities and academic and professional associations have come to be controlled, in part or in whole, by publishing houses that increasingly are concentrated in a few multinational media conglomerates. This means that the surplus (monetary) value produced by the academic labor that writes the content of journals ends up as profit for media capital. It also means that corporations control the fund of knowledge produced by academic labor. We are determined to resist this trend -”Take Back Our Knowledge”. Hence we have founded a non-profit corporation “Institute for Human Geography Inc”, as owner of a new journal Human Geography – the Institute’s officers are drawn from the Board of Editors. This Institute will not establish relations of any kind with commercial publishing houses. Let it be clear, we are not proposing an open access, web based journal. However, individual subscriptions, when offered later this year, will be at a low cost, with institutional subscriptions at a moderate cost, and certainly less than they are being charged at the moment -multinational publishers charge institutions annual subscription rates in the range of $250-$5000 a year. A single journal can generate half a million to a million dollars a year in profit. We could use this money to sponsor radical research…but only if ownership and control over the knowledge we produce is kept out of corporate hands. As soon as we have a surplus we will announce the availability of radical-geographic research grants, and appoint a committee to administer them.
(2) Need for a new publishing outlet for articles on topics of political significance conceived from critical, perspectives. The critical politics that fueled the radical geography movement are being dissipated in philosophical-theoretical niceties and empirical evasions. Particularly, articles written from specifically Marxian philosophical-theoretical and political positions face a difficult time-young academics have to deny their radical politics to get published. While we can try to change this, we feel it is necessary to also begin a new journal that consciously favors political as well as theoretically-based articles from various left positions that definitely include socialism. Additionally the wide range of urgent social and political issues thrown up by capitalist globalization is not being fully addressed. Some of the most basic issues (the Iraq War, global finance capitalism, environmental crisis…) are hardly mentioned in the existing journals. Hence we favor a new, more extensive and politically inclusive journal of broadly, but very politically, conceived Human Geography.
So we announce the start of a new journal called Human Geography. We invite your interest, comment and support. We could use donations to fuel the start-up of the journal – please make checks out to Institute for Human Geography, and $100 gets you two years of free issues. We invite you to submit papers, opinion pieces, reviews and editorials to our editorial board. If you have an idea for a contribution let us know what you have in mind, so that we can provide immediate feedback – please email your proposal or paper to the respective editors:
Richard Peet for substantive articles
Derek Gregory for opinion pieces and editorials
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro for book reviews and review essays
Human Geography Editor: Richard Peet, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
Editorials and Opinions Editor: Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Book Review Editor: Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Department of Geography, SUNY New Paltz
Editorial Board:
Waquar Ahmed, Pennsylvania State University
Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Myrna Breitbart, Hampshire College
B.S. Butola, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ipsita Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University
Kevin Cox, Ohio State University
Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine
Annette Desmarais, University of Regina
Jody Emel, Clark University
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, State University of New York, New Paltz
Emily Gilbert, University of Toronto
Ruthie Gilmore, University of Southern California.
Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia
Jon Goss, University of Hawaii
Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia
Elaine Hartwick, Framingham State College
David Harvey, City University of New York
Andy Herod, University of Georgia
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
Maria Kaika, Manchester University
Mazen Labban, University of Miami
Jenna Loyd , Syracuse University