Local-Global journal

Local-Global journal, volume 4 01/07/2007
Food, farming and community

Local-Global journal, volume 3 01/05/2007
Exploring the Legacy of Judith Wright

Local-Global journal, volume 2 01/07/2005
Sarajevo, pathways to reconciliation

Local-Global journal, volume 1 01/05/2005
Hamilton, community life in the region

About the journal

Local–Global is a collaborative international journal concerned with the resilience and difficulties of contemporary social life. It draws together groups of researchers and practitioners located in different communities across the world to critically address issues concerning the relationship between the global and the local.

It emphasises the following social themes and over-arching issues that inform daily life over time and space:

• Authority-Participation
• Belonging-Mobility
• Equality-Wealth Distribution
• Freedom-Obligation
• Identity-Difference
• Inclusion-Exclusion
• Local Knowledges-Expert Systems
• Mediation-Disconnectedness
• Past-Present
• Power-Subjection
• Security-Risk
• Wellbeing-Adversity

Editorial team

International advisory board

• Professor Perry Anderson, (University of California)
• Dr Alan Chun, (Academica Sinica)
• Professor Jonathan Friedman, (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social)
• Emeritus Professor Jack Goody (Cambridge University)
• Professor Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia)
• Professor David Lyon (Queens University)
• Professor Walter Mignolo (Duke University)
• Professor Juliet Mitchell (Cambridge University)
• Ashis Nandy, (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
• Professor Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania)
• Professor Fazal Rizvi (University of Illinois)
• Professor Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick)
• Professor Peter Sellers (University of California)
• Professor Manfred Steger (RMIT University and University of Hawai’i)
• Professor Jukka Siikala (University of Helsinki)
• Professor Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University)

Submission guidelines

Local–Global welcomes contributions from interested authors and researchers. Authors should consult the Style Guide (PDF 78kb 2pp).

Authors wishing to submit articles to be considered for publication in Local–Global should please email contributions as a Microsoft Word file to globalism@rmit.edu.au. Papers in the 'Research Papers' section of Local–Global are academically refereed articles. Manuscripts are read initially by the editors. If considered to fall within the journal's brief, the manuscript is forwarded to two referees who conduct a blind review. Referee's comments are forwarded to the author, and the editors determine whether the article has been adequately corrected or adjusted for publication. The editors reserve the right to alter the normal refereeing process in exceptional circumstances.

Manuscripts should be sent in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format, and be between 4500 and 6000 words in length. A short abstract of the article and author contact details should be supplied as well.

Articles should use no more than two levels of heading. The use of bullet-points, or other forms of point listing, is discouraged in favour of a discursive statement of ideas the author wishes to convey.

Authors are requested to keep to an absolute minimum the styling and formatting functions of the word processing software they use. If figures or diagrams are to be included in the article, they should be sent as separate attachments in 'gif', 'jpg' or 'png' format. If the article includes tables, these should be constructed using the table-building functions available in most word processing software, rather than being constructed manually.