Call for submissions: Wicked Stars: a zin to trouble disaster studies

'Wicked stars: A zin to trouble disaster studies' is the publication of RADIX: Radical interpretations of disasters.

Background

Wicked Stars offers an alternative space to researchers and whoever else feels like they need to share about their experience of harm, hardship and suffering as per the ethos of the Disaster Studies Manifesto and Accord. 

We conceive of Wicked Stars as a heterodox space that invites challenges to dominant and critical approaches to studying disasters and the work of disaster risk reduction, response, and recovery. This is a space in which to lodge critiques from multiple trajectories, for renderings of humans and other beings ill matched to prevailing orthodoxies; to identify and aspire to new possibilities of repair and transformation; to reject state legibilities or to refashion them; in sum, Wicked Stars do not merely portend catastrophe, they flicker in varying degrees of intensity on new pathways to the otherwise.

How to submit

Wicked Stars is open to all voices, in all forms. We are committed to publishing academic essays alongside other forms of reflections, whether through visual arts and poetry, photography and songs, reviews of books and films, or any other format. We also offer a dump where we invite researchers to publish the bits and pieces that they had to cut out of their published articles because reviewers or editors thought they were irrelevant. We are open to all languages, whether spoken by hundreds of millions of people or only a few thousands. We prefer shorter pieces but we are open to submissions of any length and format. 

Submission must be in any conventional word processor (although .doc/.docx is preferred) and/or image (although .png is preferred) formats and must be addressed to JC Gaillard: [email protected]. The editorial collective makes acceptance decisions guided by Wicked Stars's mission, and collective members will provide editorial guidance on accepted drafts.