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2024 Call for Papers is now open!
#03 Thinking Through Crisis

LACIS Review invites the academic community to submit short articles (1,000-1,200 words) and/or video essays (5-7 minutes) for publication in the third edition of our online journal. This publication will explore interdisciplinary research within Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) and is supported by the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For this third edition, submissions of articles and/or video essays on relevant subject matter should be submitted for consideration by May 31st, 2024.

Description

Since its origin in Ancient Greece, the term crisis has evolved from its technical usage in medicine or economics to become a broader, more complex concept used to analyze social conditions and lived experiences. That decisive moment, that point of inflection, whose outcome was either demise or recovery, has undergone a series of conceptual expansions that affect its temporal coordinates and question the binary logic of its aftermath. As the word crisis proliferates in academic titles and popular media, as it becomes politicized and even weaponized, it has come to signify too many things too vaguely.  At its worst, it becomes a rhetorical device for reactionary politics and even a cynical recourse for what has been called disaster capitalism.  Furthermore, the term’s ambiguity is also conditioned by geopolitical considerations.  From Reinhart Koselleck to Bruno Latour, the list of thinkers who see the concept of crisis as inherent to Modernity is long and illustrious.  It warrants mentioning, however, that their Modernity is routinely located in what we now consider the Global North. This conventional perspective should prompt us to consider the specificity of crises occurring far from, and usually to the south of, Western economic and political power centers.  This third edition of the LACIS Review calls for inter-, trans-, or multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding crisis and crises as they occur, are experienced, represented, or thought of in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian regions.

Topics

Submissions might explore (but are not limited to) the following themes:

-       Financial crisis
-       Humanitarian crisis
-       Political crisis
-       Health crisis
-       Crisis at the border
-       Environmental crisis
-       Crisis and narration
-       Crisis images
-       The cinema of crisis
-       Continental crisis
-       Crisis and the Global South
-       Crisis as opportunity
-       The possibility of crisis studies
-       Disciplinary crisis
-       Identity crisis
-       Crisis and dystopia

How to Submit

Works should be submitted via the submission form on our website or to lacis_review@g-groups.wisc.edu by May 31st, 2024. Short essays (1,000-1,200 words) should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document. Citations may be in any style, but must be consistent. In the case of video essays (5-7 minutes), files should be submitted as an MP4. Files should be titled according to the following format: “last name_submission title_lacis”; example: “egea_concerning crisis_lacis”.

Submissions may be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. However, if you would like to publish in another language, please share a translation of your work in one of the previously mentioned languages. If you are not able to provide a translation, contact LACIS Review directly to discuss other options.

Authors will be informed regarding the acceptance status of their papers by the beginning of the Fall 2024 semester and submissions will be published in December 2024 on the LACIS Review website (lacisreview.org).

Guest Editor:

Dr. Juan Egea
Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Executive editors:

Andrea Guzmán Giura
Jamie de Moya-Cotter
Addison Nace
Diego Alegria
Anneli Marisa Aliaga
Rocio Gonzalez-Espresati Clement
Logan Krishka