The Resistance Studies Magazine is calling for papers for issue 4/08 with a thematic focus on Chinese Resistance.

Guest Editors:

Wei Liu wie.liu(at)gmail.com  and  Jorgen Johansen johansen.jorgen(at)gmail.com

We will consider:

Theoretical and empirical articles on power, resistance and social change in Chinese history and ongoing actions and campaigns with a Chinese connection.

We have a special interest on the struggle in Tibet and the protest and counter-protests around the Olympic Games.

Articles on Internet, electronic resistance and struggle against censorship in China.

Reviews of scholarly articles and books.

Deadline for manuscripts: October 20.

For further information, please see our Submission guidelines on

Expected to be published in December 1.

[this message may be re-published anywhere] - The third issue of the Resistance Studies Magazine is out now. You may read it immediately following this link. It has been a great pleasure to edit the five articles, and they are really worth reading. Here is a short summary of the articles from the editorial column:

• Drawing on a theoretical combination of James Scott’s conception of everyday resistance and Erwin Goffman’s symbolic interactionism, Carol Jo Evans develops an interesting case study of resistance within a North American Appalachian community.
• Shane Gunderson discusses how resistance movements may gain momentum, as “popular intellectuals” facilitate and combine ideological work with political initiative. Gunderson shows, through a case-study, that structuring resistance in a more strategic fashion, through sequential actions, will increase the possibility of social change.
• Femke Kaulingfreks writes about the May 2008 riots in Copenhagen, and how such events, when taken seriously, seem to grow politics from the middle, thus shaping grounds for important political agency. What falls outside of normalisation, is not necessary disruptive in a counter-productive way, but may reveal inequalities and open up debates.
• Thomas Riegler analyses the film The Battle of Algiers and how it has been caught up in debates on whether it has influenced resistance like an instruction manual in asymmetric warfare and guerrilla tactics, or not.
• Finally, Adrian Bua deals with the problems of pluralism and democracy, and proposes how class analysis can contribute to a more sustainable alternative called pluralist socialism.

Please download and read the articles, and watch out for a CFP for the 2008#4 Special Issue.

RSMag has received seven highly interesting articles for the next issue. They have been sent out for peer review today.

Look out for a fresh and vibrant RSMag 2008#3 in early/mid august!

There are still five more days to submit articles to the summer issue of the Resistance Studies Magazine (2008#3). Remember that we also, accept shorter reviews of books, articles and films, along our main focus on journal articles.

The fourth issue will be a special issue on resistance in China in the context of the Olympic games. Thus, this is the last opportunity for general topics during 2008.

For submissions, check out the guidelines, or if you wish to discuss your piece in beforehand, do not hesitate to contact the editors via e-mail.

Good luck with your manuscripts!

/Christopher Kulleberg

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The Resistance Studies Magazine is calling for papers to the next general issue, expected to be published in mid August.

We will consider:

- Theoretical and empirical articles on power, resistance and social change.

- Reviews of scholarly articles and books.

On publication of the third issue, we will also officially launch our new website rsmag.org. This way we will be able to further develop the interactivity as well as the impact of the magazine.

Deadline for manuscripts: July 10.

For further information, please see our Submission guidelines.

We are happy to be added to the Swedish directory of journals for culture and arts (see our page here). Even though we publish in English only, we managed to get on the directory.

We encourage all readers to look for other directories and sites to spread the word of the magazine. It is totally open access, so the potential is unlimited when it comes to readership. If anybody knows of a place where we should be, please send an e-mail to christopher.kullenberg@theorysc.gu.se.

Soon the RSM will also launch a site of its own in order to provide possibilities for feedback and better publication formats. After an excellent editorial meeting in London, we are convinced that articles in Resistance Studies have a great potential within and outside academia.

The Resistance Studies Magazine has qualified for becoming a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals. (Click here to go to our entry).

To be included there are both epistemic criteria as well as demands on openness. The journal must be peer-reviewed and needs to have an active editorial function, and the articles must always be downloadable free of charge, allowing readers to redistribute, copy and print all content.

To me, stressing opennes (read the editorial in the second issue) is also related to making better studies and proper science. Our knowledge on resistance must always be available for people to object to, and to further develop, both in theory and practice.

I call out to academics worldwide, to consider the possibility of actively choosing open access journals, when possible, to support this effort in making knowledge accessible to as many as possible - in order to use it, resist it, and to challenge old models with new ones!