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  • CFP 2021

    2021-08-10

    In contemporary “precarious times” human rights are frequently violated, violence is perpetrated, and soft democracies back down in the face of emergency regimes. These conditions produce the need to engage in critical reflection on our contemporary human condition. Our interdisciplinary Journal seeks to reflect on these issues. We seek to reflect on multifarious manifestations of violence and derogations from human rights, whether historical or current. We would like to approach them from political, social, psychological, and cultural domains. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the situation of human rights is represented in art genre: literature, film, theatre or visual arts, and local narratives.

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  • Review of Human Rights Calls For Papers 2020

    2020-02-07

    Theme: In contemporary “precarious times” human rights are frequently violated, violence is perpetrated, and soft democracies back down in face of emergency regimes. These conditions produce the need to engage in critical reflection on our contemporary human condition. Our interdisciplinary Call for Papers seeks to reflect on these issues. We seek to reflect on multifarious manifestations of violence and derogations from human rights, whether historical or current. We would like to approach them from political, social, psychological, and cultural domains. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the situation of human rights is represented in art genre: literature, film, theatre or visual arts, and local narratives.

    We hope that its interdisciplinary method will bring many interesting observations on and intellectual deliberations about the role of human rights in the past and in the present-day world. We invite both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers, as well as doctoral students, to submit their papers. Full-length papers should not exceed 10,000 words. For more details about the submission guideline please visit our website:

    Although papers are published on rolling basis, we provide a deadline for final submissions: November 30, 2020. Papers submitted earlier will be processed and published without waiting for the deadline. For submissions please visit our website: http://reviewhumanrights.com You can directly submit here as well: syedraza@hawaii.edu; review.humanrights@gmail.com.

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  • Call For Papers

    2019-07-04

    In contemporary “precarious times” human rights are frequently violated, violence is perpetrated, and soft democracies back down in the face of emergency regimes. These conditions produce the need to engage in critical reflection on our contemporary human condition. Our interdisciplinary Journal seeks to reflect on these issues. We seek to reflect on multifarious manifestations of violence and derogations from human rights, whether historical or current. We would like to approach them from political, social, psychological, and cultural domains. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the situation of human rights is represented in art genre: literature, film, theatre or visual arts, and local narratives.

    We hope that its interdisciplinary method brings many interesting observations on and intellectual deliberations about the role of human rights in the past and in the present-day world. We invite both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers, as well as doctoral students, to turn in papers.

    Our areas of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

    1. Societies
    •  Genocides
    •  Slavery
    •  Nationalism
    •  Ethnic cleansings
    1. Individuals
    • Domestic violence
    • Mobbing
    • Sexual abuse
    • Symbolic violence
    • Economic discrimination
    • Youth and Violence

    III. Defense of Human Rights

    •  Human rights organizations
    •  Humanitarian missions
    •  Resistance movement
    •  The ethos of a freedom fighter
    •  Conspiracies, protests, revolts
    •  Women's rights
    •  Minority rights
    •  Disability rights
    •  Human rights and animal rights
    •  Human rights Derogations
    1. Violence and Subjectivity
    • Politics of trauma
    • Fear, despair and utopia
    • Violence and language
    1. Violence in the (Post-)Modern World
    • Cultural conditioning of violence
    • The regime of political correctness
    • Democracy and the dictatorship of the majority
    • Democracy and liberalism
    • Human rights and the free market
    • Violence in the media
    1. Literature and the Arts
    • Art and Literature about human rights violation
    • Art and Literature about violence
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