Call for Papers - Indigenous Knowledges and Cosmopolitanism

2024-07-12

This special issue of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies takes up this challenge. Its focus is on indigenous knowledges, as they are understood in their own societies and as they are represented in the majority culture. It considers government policies and local efforts to share the knowledge of First Nations people in the context of civil society; it explores the implementation of indigenous law and justice; it examines the ways in which indigenous culture and art are shared in a society; it investigates how indigenous documents and artefacts become part of a national heritage; and it documents efforts to maintain and expand the use of indigenous languages.

The deadline for submission is 30 January 2025.

Publication vol. 17 no. 3, December 2025

Please click on the title to read the full CfP.

Keynote Speakers for New Conceptualisations of Cosmopolitanism

2023-02-02

NEW CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF COSMOPOLITANISM

6 + 7 May 2023, 9am-3pm Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

This online conference, organised by the Editorial Board of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, reassesses debates about civil society and cosmopolitanisms at the current juncture. Interested scholars should submit an abstract of 500 words addressing one of the panel themes listed below to ccsjournal@uts.edu.au by the end of February 2023. If accepted they will be expected to send a draft paper to the editorial convenors by 28 April 2023, to enable active feedback at the sessions from the editors and other participants. Invited keynote sessions will act as a lead-in to thematic paper sessions. Presenters will be invited to submit papers for a special issue of the CCS journal.

THEMATIC PANELS

Saturday 6 May

9am - 12noon UTC – Climate Change, Environmentalism and Cosmopolitanism 

Keynote: Patrick Bond, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

12noon - 3pm UTC – Gender Relations and Cosmopolitanism

Keynote: Margaret Walton-Roberts, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Sunday 7 May

9am - 12noon UTC – Ethno-nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Keynote: Debal SinghaRoy, Indira Gandhi National Open University and Nehru Memorial Museum

12noon - 3pm UTC – Transforming Local-Global Relations

Keynote: Michael Samers, University of Kentucky

CALL FOR PAPERS NEW CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF COSMOPOLITANISM

2023-01-03

CALL FOR PAPERS  NEW CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF COSMOPOLITANISM

6-7 May 2023, 7-11pm AEST (UTC 9am-1pm)

This online conference, organised by the Editorial Board of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, reassesses debates about civil society and cosmopolitanisms at the current juncture. Interested scholars should submit an abstract addressing one of the themes by 15 February 2023. If accepted (28 February 2023), they will be expected to send a draft paper to the editorial convenors, by 28 April 2023, to enable active feedback at the sessions from the editors and other participants. The conference is composed of two aspects – invited keynote sessions and thematic paper sessions. Presenters will be invited to submit papers for a special issue of the CCS journal.

New Extractivism - Deadline Extended to 28 May 2022

2022-05-16

The deadline for abstracts for the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Special Issue has been extended to 28 May 2022 in response to requests for more time. Please see the full announcement under Announcements at https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs 

The 'New' Extractivism: Winning over Civil Society

2022-03-28

This Special Issue of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal investigates the phenomenon of ‘new’ extractivism, focusing on its civil society dimensions. How is civil society re-patterned by extractivism? What social technologies are being developed by extractivist corporates to enable civil society participation in their projects? What tensions or contradictions emerge in this nexus? How may these tensions, understood dialectically, generate new constituencies in civil society, lead to failed extractivist projects, and open-up the potential for wider post-extractivist futures?