eSharp
eSharp is an international online journal for postgraduate research in the arts, humanities, social sciences and education. Based at the University of Glasgow and run entirely by graduate students, it aims to provide a critical but supportive entry into the realm of academic publishing for emerging academics, including postgraduates and recent postdoctoral students.
One of our aims is to encourage the publication of high quality postgraduate research; therefore all submitted articles are anonymously double-blind peer reviewed as part of the acceptance and feedback process. This rigorous and constructive process is designed to enhance the worth of postgraduate and postdoctoral work. eSharp also engages in training postgraduate students in the various tasks that running an academic journal requires. Enhancing both employability and the graduate experience is a key aspect of its aims and objectives.
Call for Papers
eSharp invites papers for the forthcoming themed issue. Issue 15, Uniting Nations: Risks and Opportunities, will open explorations on social, economic, cultural and political facets of internationalization and globalization. We welcome articles which take up the implications of internationalization in the field of arts, humanities, social sciences and education. We encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research and early career authors within one year of graduation.
As the title indicates, Issue 15 pertains to the unification and conjoining of nations, whether as co-operative economic and political blocs, such as the European Union, the imposed annexation of one nation into another, or national policies on immigration / emigration, to list some examples. While the processes of national unification may bring with them economic or industrial gain, they may also be accompanied by the negation of cultural difference and their corollaries of political resistance and even terrorism; inversely again, international unions such as NATO work to counter or defuse such sites of intransigence. Even in political conditions where international migration is extolled (i.e. 'melting pot', multicultural ideologies) the acceptance of cultural difference can be contingent on how such difference is commensurate with the dominant cultural reality, and national differences may be incorporated and re-articulated as 'our' national difference. Issue 15 will be looking to collate its essays in a manner that would facilitate a dialectic on the risks and opportunities of uniting nations.
Subjects may include, but are not limited to:
- Treaty of Union / Devolution
- 'Nations within Nations'
- Equality in Diversity
- Patriotism and Nationalism vis-à-vis Global Citizenship
- Immigration / Emigration
- Regionalization
- Corporatization
- Cross-cultural management
- Peace-building
- Pedagogy to Facilitate (Inter) national Diversification
- Interfaith Dialogue
- World Englishes
Submissions must be based on original research and should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. These should be made in Word document or RTF format. Please ensure that you accompany your article with an abstract of 200 to 250 words and a list of three to five keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. A full list of guidelines and our style sheet is available here. Submissions and enquiries should be sent to submissions@esharp.org.uk. The final deadline for submission of articles is Tuesday 28th February 2010.
Current Issue
eSharp's fourteenth issue, 'Imagination and Innovation' focuses on the potential of the human imagination in generating innovation, creation and new developments. From technological advances to the formation of various media, the inventive capacity of the human mind has shaped our history and our world in countless ways. Submissions to this issue explore and reflect its creative energy, with topics ranging from Eurovision and identity politics to the phantasmagorical imagination in 18th century/ fin-de-siècle cultures; from discourses of creativity in BBC production to the reception and re-interpretation of a 15th century dream romance. The articles demonstrate that imagination is an important factor to consider when it comes to the formation and development of nation state profiles, global identity, children's TV program-making, literary works and Christian beliefs. In effect, image-branding, narratives, organizational practices, the reception of texts from prior eras and defining religious identities are found to be key in making sense of our modern society.
eSharp is proud to present this diverse collection of articles, which demonstrate the variety of creative processes and developments within entertainment, literature, religion and other manifestations of human culture.