Critical African Studies

期刊简介：Critical African Studies seeks to advance critical approaches and theoretical innovation within African Studies. We aim to champion representation and inclusion, and seek to support and advance the decolonization of knowledge. We publish theoretically informed scholarship of importance for Africa and the diaspora, from diverse disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We encourage pieces of critical enquiry that subvert colonial framings and question long-held or widely assumed truths, and that transcend disciplinary boundaries. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. Our aim is to publish scholarly articles that generate and engage with theory from the African continent and its disaporas. We aspire to publish articles based on original empirical research that has been undertaken with the highest ethical research standards. Critical African Studies publishes original research articles, review essays, commentaties, and debates and provocations that meet the aims of the journal, and that offer original and critical empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates. The journal welcomes proposals from Guest Editors for special issues or special sections. CrAS welcomes review essays offering original and insightful analysis of the state of the literature on a given research area within the journal's remit. This can be done through engaging with three or more recently published books on Africa on a given theoretical debate or substantive topic, highlighting their contributions and drawing specific theoretical implications for future research agendas within specific domains of African Studies. We are also happy to consider Review Essays which have a different approach, for instance, offering a broader critical assessment of key debates relevant to the subject, and offering original ideas about new theoretical entry-points. Review Essays will be double blind peer reviewed as normal and should be between 5000-6000 words. Prospective review essay authors should first send a 1-2 page proposal to the Editors via critical.african.studies@ed.ac.uk . The proposal should, if relevant, identify the books that would form the core of the review, and articulate a clear argument about their significance. Where the review essay is not framed around any specific books, a clear summary of the key debates and the contribution of the essay should be included in the proposal. The journal also seeks commentaries on contemporary events/issues. A commentary piece is expected to respond to an important and topical issue which is relevant to the journal's academic remit. The style should be engaging and designed to appeal to a wider non-specialist audience, but in a way that does not sacrifice academic analytical rigour. CrAS will be periodically publishing themes for which we seek multiple (inter)disciplinary viewpoints. These debates encourage authors to engage conceptually and empirically with a journal determined theme in ways that allow them to draw on their own disciplinary traditions and research expertise. Debate pieces on each designated theme will normally be published together in the same issue and aimed at generating divergent viewpoints on the subject and thereby stimulating academic debates. Each debate piece will stand alone in its own right but will ultimately be part of a collection of provocative ideas on the subject. The editors are happy to hear from author groups who may have an interesting idea for a debate. Please contact us at critical.african.studies@ed.ac.uk if this is the case. Peer Review Statement All submissions across all article types are evaluated by an editor before being sent out for double anonymous peer review. Reviewers are selected according to their expertise in the area of the submitted paper and we seek to have at least one reviewer from the country or region that is the focus of the paper. We aim to provide authors with a decision on their manuscript within three months. This decision, along with any recommendations and comments from the referees, will be sent to the author by the handling editor, who makes the final decision on accepting or rejecting papers.

【译文】批判非洲研究致力于推进非洲研究中的批判方法和理论创新。我们的目标是倡导代表性和包容性，并寻求支持和推进知识的非殖民化。我们出版来自人文和社会科学不同学科的对非洲和海外侨民具有重要意义的理论学术学术成果。我们鼓励批判性探究，颠覆殖民框架，质疑长期持有或广泛假设的真理，并超越学科界限。我们为作者提供比其他期刊更灵活的出版平台，让他们有更大的空间在理论和概念参与的同时进行实证讨论。我们的目标是发表学术文章，这些文章产生并涉及来自非洲大陆及其侨民的理论。我们渴望发表基于以最高道德研究标准进行的原创实证研究的文章。 《批判非洲研究》发表符合该期刊目标的原创研究文章、评论文章、评论以及辩论和挑衅，并为非洲研究辩论提供原创和批判性的经验和理论见解。该期刊欢迎客座编辑对特刊或特别章节提出建议。 CrAS 欢迎评论文章，对期刊职权范围内特定研究领域的文献状况进行原创且富有洞察力的分析。这可以通过阅读三本或更多最近出版的有关非洲的特定理论辩论或实质性主题的书籍来实现，突出它们的贡献并为非洲研究特定领域内的未来研究议程绘制具体的理论含义。我们也很高兴考虑采用不同方法的评论论文，例如，对与该主题相关的关键辩论提供更广泛的批判性评估，并提供有关新理论切入点的原创想法。评论文章将正常进行双盲同行评审，字数应在 5000-6000 字之间。潜在的评论文章作者应首先通过 Critical.african.studies@ed.ac.uk 向编辑发送 1-2 页的提案。如果相关，该提案应确定构成评论核心的书籍，并就其重要性阐明清晰的论点。如果评论文章没有围绕任何特定书籍进行框架，则提案中应包含对关键辩论和文章贡献的清晰总结。该杂志还寻求对当代事件/问题的评论。评论文章应回应与该期刊的学术范围相关的重要和热门问题。风格应该引人入胜，旨在吸引更广泛的非专业受众，但又不能牺牲学术分析的严谨性。 CrAS 将定期发布我们寻求多（跨）学科观点的主题。这些辩论鼓励作者从概念上和经验上参与期刊确定的主题，使他们能够利用自己的学科传统和研究专业知识。每个指定主题的辩论文章通常会在同一期中一起发表，旨在就该主题产生不同的观点，从而激发学术辩论。每一篇辩论文章都将独立存在，但最终将成为有关该主题的一系列挑衅性想法的一部分。编辑们很高兴收到作者团体的来信，他们可能有有趣的辩论想法。如果是这种情况，请通过 Critical.african.studies@ed.ac.uk 联系我们。同行评审声明 所有文章类型的所有提交内容均由编辑进行评估，然后再发送出去进行双重匿名同行评审。审稿人是根据他们在所提交论文领域的专业知识来选择的，我们寻求至少一名来自论文重点国家或地区的审稿人。我们的目标是在三个月内向作者提供对其稿件的决定。该决定以及审稿人的任何建议和评论将由处理编辑发送给作者，由作者做出接受或拒绝论文的最终决定。