About This Journal
Contents
Aims and Scope:
Landscapes of Violence(LoV) is a peer reviewed periodical dedicated to fostering a dialogue between scholarly discourses on violence, conflict and trauma in both past and present populations. One of the primary goals of this new journal is to create an inclusive platform designed to reach a broad audience including scientists, academics, policymakers, and the public. To that end, LoV is an open-access journal. Articles will be available to all on the internet, free of charge and without restriction. The objective of LoV is to engage in an interdisciplinary inquiry of the theoretical and empirical issues around the study of violence, conflict, trauma, warfare, and human rights.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- The development of hatred and violence
- Being and becoming violent
- Rage, anger, hatred and violence
- Ideas, images and ideologies of hatred
- Violence and the self
- Violence, trauma and victimhood
- Violence over bodies and psyches
- The politics and dialectics of fear and violence
- Mental illness, deviance and violence
- Societal roots of violence
- Inequality, marginalization and injustice
- Alienation, isolation, and marginality as roots and consequences of violence
- Violence as a social pathology
- Social structures and violence or the violence of social structures
- Religion, religious institutions, and their role in curtailing or propelling violence
- Violence in Families, Communities, and Nations
- Domestic violence directed toward families, women, men and children
- Community violence directed toward ethnic, minority, and racialised groups
- Youth and gang violence
- Issues of nationalism, ethnic violence and mass killing
- Discourse on violence
- Symbolic violence
- Views of human nature in the disciplines as naturally violent
- Discourse, ethics and legitimacy: When is violence justified?
- Education and Violence
- Fostering, nurturing, and socialization for violence
- Education and violence; educating for violence
- The promotion of education and educative strategies
- Implications of Violence for Public Policy
- Respect and recognition of diversity and radical difference to prevent violence
- The creation of the non-violent person
- The use of violence to achieve peace (e.g., human/animal rights, resistance movements), anti-globalisation violence, anti-vivisection violence
- Violence as resistance to domination
Given the radical changes in the dissemination of information brought about by the internet we have decided not to follow a traditional print format for the LoV. The journal will be published multiple times a year (see "Publication frequency") and will include video and audio formats.
Content Sections
Landscapes of Violence publishes Letters to the Editor, Articles, Reviews, Announcements and we also encourage video and audio submission. See the "Peer Review Process" for information on conditions for publication.