Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

SITUATIONS addresses the lapse of the radical imagination in both left theory and in popular consciousness. It explores the social conditions and lived experiences that have led to this
malaise and supports explanations that do not reduce political phenomena to a reflection. SITUATIONS publishes critical assessments of radical political thought, identifying what is new and different in politics and culture today. SITUATIONS publishes critical examinations of social movements and popular attempts to guide political change. SITUATIONS fosters modes of thinking that recognize the creative role that society plays in its own production. Mindful of its role as a journal, SITUATIONS brings political theory and questions of strategy back to the fore as pragmatic and political necessities. SITUATIONS attempts to
overcome reductionist thought by searching out the revolutionary impulse that comes from the abstract, the impulse to break with lived experience and seek new ways of understanding and situating ourselves within society.

 

Section Policies

Essays

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed

Section on Latin America

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Critical Interventions

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Articles

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Review Essays

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World Social Forum

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed

Scholarship With a Purpose

Distinguished critiques or analyses focused on new political assessment of well established ideas or facts

Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed

Reflections on Terrorism

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed

Situation in France

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Critical Book Reviews

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Contributors

Editors
  • Michael Pelias, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
  • Ivan Zatz, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed

Poem

Editors
  • Mark Zuss, Lehman College
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed

Insurgencies

Editors
  • Michael Pelias, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
  • Ivan Zatz, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed

Leftist Travelogues

Editors
  • Michael Pelias, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed

The Current Situation

Editors
  • Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
  • Michael Pelias, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed
 

Peer Review Process

At the moment, the journal is published from articles written internally or by direct solicitation from the editors and are not subject to established peer review procedures. The editors will consider establishing a peer review procedure at a future date.

 

Publication Frequency

Situations is semi-annual publication. The current issue was released February 3, 2006. The next issue is delayed and will be out in January 2007.

 

Open Access Policy

The online contents of the journal are free for the current issue. The Situations Collective will revise its online subscription policy for future issues.