Volume 37: Social Dis/Order Call for Papers

The deadline for submissions for STAR Volume 37 is January 15, 2024.

A survey of the contemporary world provides no shortage of ways in which social order—both in terms of the institutions that afford the structural possibilities of our lives, and the homeostatic maintenance of social relations —appears to teeter on the brink of collapse. The global rise of anti-democratic, ethnonationalist movements, and the unilateral, unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine are only the most recent indications of the tenuous state of cooperative political institutions . Cascading global climate crises, the failures of neoliberalism and globalization, the proliferation of post-truth worldviews, and the persistence of gendered and racialized inequities demand redress if we are to realize a more equitable social order. Counter-movements, including Black Lives Matter, #NoDAPL, Occupy, #MeToo, and the Global Climate Strike attempt to answer these crises, but their ability to meaningfully reconfigure existing socio-material conditions remains uncertain.

For STAR Volume 37 we invite social scientists, humanities scholars, artists, and policymakers to contribute work that describes, analyzes, or otherwise addresses the contemporary moment of social dis/order, the failures of the established social order(s) that inform these conditions and dynamics, and/or consequent imaginings of social (re)ordering and contestation.

In addition to original, article-length (~6,000 word) empirical and theoretical research contributions, we also welcome book reviews, research notes, teaching articles, critical literature reviews, and reports on research creation that address the theme of this volume.

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The deadline for submissions for STAR Volume 37 is January 15, 2024.