Call for Written Submissions
The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research (IJR)

Volume 15: Transforming Justice

 

Call for Papers: The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research (IJR) in conjunction with the Department of Criminal Justice and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies (CIJS) at the University of Winnipeg invites manuscripts for Volume 15 (2025) on the theme of Transforming Justice.

 

Theme: We seek written submissions that explore possibilities for transforming conceptions and practices of justice in Canada and beyond. In considering justice as something that we are collectively responsible for, we welcome submissions about the tensions, opportunities, and barriers that exist when thinking of justice as both a formal state-based apparatus and a principle upheld across social networks and contexts, and in cultural practices and representations. We welcome submissions that critically assess and challenge how justice is fostered and undermined within current practices and systems, and how this may create and sustain inequalities. This thematic issue of The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research offers an inclusive forum for scholarly and artistic exchange about how practices, conceptions, and representations of justice might be transformed across law, policing, sentencing, incarceration, politics, culture, and community organizing. We therefore seek original written contributions that critically and creatively engage in a broad exploration of law, crime, justice, and transformation.

We invite submissions from scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and beyond that examine how issues of crime, law, and justice intersect with the concept of transformation. We seek academic contributions as well as photographic, artistic, and cinematic exposures of justice and transformation including but not limited to: health justice; ecological and green justice; anarchic justice; Indigenous justice; urban justice; human rights and justice; works on surveillance; theoretical and philosophical works; governing labour practices; media and cultural representations of justice; pedagogical and research notes; and any other scholarly and/or creative work that engages with the theme of Transforming Justice. We especially welcome submissions that creatively apply the theme in ways that expand conceptions of both justice and transformation.

 

We encourage submissions that build from the joint Critical Perspectives / CIJS conference Transforming Justice held in conjunction with the departments of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Victoria and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies’ (CAEFS) Centre for Research into the Processes & Outcomes of Incarceration (CRPOI), May 14-16, 2025 at the University of Victoria. We also welcome other scholarly and artistic submissions that engage with the theme.

 

Submission Deadline: September 2, 2025

 

Download the detailed call for papers.

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Please direct all inquiries and submissions to our email: CIJS@uwinnipeg.ca  

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