Call for Papers
Opening Issue of
Journal of Bengali Academia for Social Empowerment (JBASE)
Theme
Crisis and After: Society, Culture and Politics
The present crisis has occasioned, apart from the ontological anxiety and gloom, a rethinking of some of our established social, cultural, economic and political ideas. Not only it has exposed the incompetence and apathy of the political regimes across the globe, it has sharpened the existing fault lines between communities, social groups and classes. India in particular witnessed deaths and despair among lakhs of stranded migrant labourers all across its major cities. While fake news led to vilification of minorities. Owing to the precautionary moves undertaken by the government, education has taken virtual mode thereby furthering the digital divide. The shift has also given space to innumerable stories of frustration and desperation among the rural and downtrodden students and their caretakers. The digital service providers have become the big players reaping maximum benefit in the name of this transformation in dissemination of education, media content and even entertainment.
Democracy, thus, seems to have given way to ‘Pandemocracy’ where security for people’s lives is replaced with ‘Coronopticon’, generating fears of stabilisation of the authoritarian regimes. However, there also have been talks of a post-capitalist future that is sensitive to ecology and a complete rethinking of our livelihood and modes of being. The Black Lives Matter Movement, too, makes us hopeful of a common fight for justice. And the pandemic has made it pertinent to rethink our common destiny as humans.
This opening issue of Journal of Bengali Academia for Social Empowerment (JBASE) proposes to lay bare these conundrums by exploring the ‘after’ of the crisis- philosophically, politically, culturally and economically. However, the thinking of the ‘after’ would also necessitate a critical enquiry on the unfolding present, and similar crisis in the past and the cataclysm they brought to people’s lives. Our focus, thus, is on attempting a critical social enquiry to understand how the world might integrate or disintegrate after the crisis and what are our conceptual wherewithal at hand to imagine a better world.
The following subthemes can be kept in mind for sending abstracts. However, the list is not exhaustive and authors might propose to write on any topic that helps us to understand the ‘after’ of the present crisis in a fresh and critical way.
Subthemes
Literatures of Crisis- Past and Present
Crisis and Populist Politics: Past and Present
Crisis and Inequality: The Migrant and the Homeless
Rethinking Our Common Destiny: Towards a New Politics of Hope
Cultures of Lockdown: Sociality during and after the Pandemic
Media & Pandemic: Misinformation, Prejudice and Scapegoating
New Economic Imaginaries: Degrowth, Postcapitalism and Returning to the Land
Ecological justice after the Pandemic: Anthropocene/ Capitalocene and Beyond
Pedagogy after the Pandemic: Online Teaching, Class Divide and Classroom
Pandemic and the new normal
Censoring Online entertainment platforms post pandemic: boon or bane
Submission Guidelines: (Send via mail to editorsjbase@gmail.com within 31st December 2020)
Original Research papers, commentaries, book reviews are invited for publication with an Abstract of 250 words, 12 point Font size Times New Roman with 1.5 spacing in MS Word following APA 6th Edition guidelines. The abstract should include 5 to 6 keywords.
Once accepted, the authors would have to submit a full paper of non plagiarized content of 5000-6000 words as an email attachment in MS Word, 12 point Font size, Times New Roman with 1.5 spacing following APA 6th edition guidelines of referencing. The content has to adhere to the guidelines of submitting original work and should not be under consideration of publication in any other journal/media. The author(s) must carefully proof-read the research paper for spelling and other grammatical errors, structural organization and plagiarism before submission to expedite the desk review and quicker processing for double blind peer-review. A short note about the author should accompany the article which must contain full name, postal and email address, phone Number, academic accomplishment and positions held if any.