Editorial Contacts

Wednesday 12 March 2008

  • Editorial contacts

    Interface is not a traditional, centralised journal with a single key editor! Because we are a global journal, and movements (and their relationships to academia) are organised so differently in different parts of the world, the basic structure of the journal is as a network of regional or linguistically-defined groups, each of which organises its own editorial processes and tries to find an appropriate way of working with its own local realities. Articles and queries should go to the contact person listed below for the relevant region:

    Movements in Africa
    Please submit papers in Zulu, Afrikaans or English to Richard Pithouse (indianocean77@gmail.com); in English to Mammo Muchie (mammo@ihis.aau.dk); and in Portuguese to Ana Margarida Esteves (anamargarida.esteves@gmail.com).

    Movements in the Arab world
    Please submit papers in Arabic or English to Rana Barakat (barakat.rana@gmail.com) or Abdul-Rahim al-Shaikh (aalshaikh@birzeit.edu); or in Arabic, English, German or Hebrew to Magid Shihade (mshihade@gmail.com).

    Movements in Central and South America
    Please submit papers in Spanish to Sara Motta (saracatherinem@googlemail.com) or Adriana Causa (acausa@gmail.com) and in Portuguese to Ana Margarida Esteves (anamargarida.esteves@gmail.com).

    Movements in Eastern Europe
    Please submit papers in Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian or Turkish to Steffen Böhm (steffen@essex.ac.uk) or Andrejs Berdnikovs (aberdnikovs@gmail.com).

    Movements in the USA and Canada
    Please submit papers in English to Ray Sin (rsin2@uic.edu) or Lesley Wood (ljwood@yorku.ca).

    Movements in South Asia
    Please submit papers in English to Alf Nilsen (alfgunvald@gmail.com). We are currently looking for another regional editor to work with Alf.

    Movements in Southeast Asia and Oceania
    Please submit papers in English to Elizabeth Humphrys (lizhumphrys@gmail.com), in Spanish to Cristina Flesher Fominaya (flesherfomi@gmail.com) and in Portuguese to Ana Margarida Esteves (anamargarida.esteves@gmail.com).

    Movements in Western Europe
    Please submit papers:
    • in English to Cristina Flesher Fominaya (flesherfomi@gmail.com), Laurence Cox (laurence.cox@nuim.ie) or Alice Mattoni (alicemattoni@gmail.com)
    • in Italian to Alice Mattoni (alicemattoni@gmail.com) or Laurence Cox (laurence.cox@nuim.ie)
    • in German to Steffen Böhm (steffen@essex.ac.uk) or Laurence Cox (laurence.cox@nuim.ie)
    • in Portuguese to Ana Margarida Esteves (anamargarida.esteves@gmail.com)
    • in Spanish to Cristina Flesher Fominaya (flesherfomi@gmail.com)
    • in French to Laurence Cox (laurence.cox@nuim.ie)
    We can also accept papers in Catalan, Maltese and Norwegian: please contact Laurence Cox (laurence.cox@nuim.ie) in relation to these.

    Transnational movements
    Please submit papers in English, Dutch, French and Spanish or with special reference to labour or social forums, to Peter Waterman (pwaterma@gmail.com); in English, with special reference to dialogue-based movements, to Richard Moore (rkm@quaylargo.com); in Arabic, English, German or Hebrew to Magid Shihade (mshihade@gmail.com); or in English, French, Italian or German to Laurence Cox (laurence.cox@nuim.ie).

    Book reviews
    In English: please contact Aileen O’Carroll (Aileen.OCarroll@nuim.ie).

    Movements in Central Asia and East Asia
    We are hoping to expand our intellectual and linguistic capacity to include these areas, but at present do not have sufficient editorial expertise to review papers on movements in these regions. Expressions of interest from potential regional editors, willing to help assemble a regional subgroup of academics and activists to review papers on movements in any of these regions, are very welcome.

    Other queries
    For more general enquiries, or where there is no contact person, please contact Ana Margarida Esteves (anamargarida.esteves@gmail.com); Cristina Flesher Fominaya (flesherfomi@gmail.com) or Laurence Cox (laurence.cox@nuim.ie).

    Help wanted!
    The editing group has some language and translating expertise, and is hoping to expand this further with your help. At present, we can accept papers in Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Zulu. We are interested in expanding this capacity to other languages, in particular Chinese, Filipino and Indonesian.

    Beyond translation, we are very much looking for other engaged researchers, whether movement-based or university-based, to help with the journal. If you feel you might be able to help with any of these, please contact the most appropriate person above.

    We are particularly looking for regional editors to work with the existing East / Central European, South Asian and Spanish-speaking Latin American groups, as well as potential regional editors willing to help establish groups of activists and academics to review papers on movements in Central Asia and in East Asia.

    We are also looking for people who are willing to act as members of the various regional collectives! This involves occasionally reviewing and commissioning articles, as well as discussions about the journal’s direction and its relationship to local movements.

    If you feel you might be able to help with any of these, please contact the appropriate person from the list above.