2020-09-16
Call for Papers

Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society on "Arts & Social Justice"

The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society (JAMLS) is organizing a special issue on the Arts & Social Justice. It welcomes theoretical reflections, case studies, and empirical studies from scholars around the world. Submission deadline is December 15, 2020.
Throughout its history, the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society (JAMLS) has published scholarly work about Art & Social Justice, including Spellman’s (1988) reflections on multicultural arts, and Keller’s (1989) theorizing of the arts manager’s social responsibility. Scholars have also published on issues of diversity and multiculturalism, entrepreneurship, policy, and social justice education in arts management. Now, however, as inequity has deepened in many nations and social unrest in democracies continues to grow, the urge to examine the role of the arts and culture as a contributor to social justice efforts—or, in some cases, as a barrier to the achievement of social justice—takes on a new urgency.
 
The Role of the Arts in Social Justice
 
A variety of characterizations for the Arts & Social Justice have made way for a wide range of emphases and strategies. Some scholars have suggested that the arts and culture can serve as a vehicle for the acquisition of political capital (Ross 1998). Others concentrate on the role of the arts in understanding and revealing problematic social structures (Freire 1998; 2000; Freire & Freire 1994), or the role of culture, identity, and pedagogy in understanding and challenging oppression (hooks 1994; Nieto 2009). Still others highlight the ways that language reveals social practices and structures embedded in everyday activities and discourses (Bakhtin 1982; Foucault 1982; Bourdieu 1999).
 
In addition, some insist on the need for culture to spark imagination on the range of alternative possibilities (Mouffe 2007; Ranciere 2008; Hardt & Negri 2009). Lastly, scholars have also sought to re-conceptualize the management of funding policies and practices with the aim of achieving cultural equity (Holden 2006; Zuidervaart 2011; Helicon Collaborative 2017; Lawrence 2017). Yet, the claim that culture can achieve social justice remains highly contested due to a lack of critical inquiry into its feasibility. Furthermore, the term "social justice” is associated with such a wide range of artistic practices, initiatives, and institutional critiques that a shared understanding of what is meant as the Arts & Social Justice remains elusive, particularly among cultural professionals.  
 
For this special issue on the Arts & Social Justice, JAMLS invites contributions that explore the following questions:
 
  • What are the emerging practices across the global cultural sector identified as the Arts & Social Justice?
  • In what ways do practices in the Arts & Social Justice differ across cultural contexts?
  • How do the Arts & Social Justice advance or complicate access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) discourses and practices in the cultural sector?
  • In what ways has Arts Management and/or Cultural Policy advanced, complicated, or undermined the Arts & Social Justice?
  • In what ways can the global cultural sector evaluate the Arts & Social Justice to reveal and communicate its benefits for the sector and communities?
Papers should range between 5,000 and 7,000 words. Please follow the journal’s guidelines. Authors should submit manuscripts to ScholarOne Manuscripts, the manuscript processing site for JAMLS. In addition, authors should indicate that they are submitting a manuscript for the special call: Arts & Social Justice.
 
Submissions for this special call for papers are due on December 15, 2020.
For any questions or queries about this special issue, authors can contact the guest editors: 
 
Antonio Cuyler acuyler@fsu.edu
 
 
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