À propos

Historique

Atlantis : Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice/Études critiques sur le genre, la culture, et la justice sociale a été créée en 1975 à l’Université Acadia, en Nouvelle-Écosse, au Canada. En 1980, la revue est devenue une publication de l’Université Mount Saint Vincent, Halifax, Nouvelle-Écosse. La revue a été publiée sans interruption pendant 45 ans, d’abord en version imprimée et, depuis 2011, en version numérique.

Atlantis est répertoriée dans l’European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences et Érudit, et est indexée dans la Gender Studies Database (EBSCO), la MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO), SocIndex (EBSCO) et America : History & Life (EBSCO).

Objectif et portée

Atlantis est une revue de recherche érudite consacrée au travail critique sous divers formats qui reflètent les études et les approches actuelles au sein de la discipline des études sur les femmes et le genre. Elle intègre une variété d’approches féministes, antiracistes, identitaires, intersectionnelles, transnationales et culturelles à un large éventail d’enjeux, de connaissances et de sujets contemporains. Atlantis se consacre à l’expansion constante des connaissances dans le domaine des études sur les femmes et le genre, ainsi qu’à des réflexions critiques sur le domaine proprement dit.

Atlantis est publiée deux fois par an et accepte uniquement les travaux inédits (c’est-à-dire qui ne sont pas actuellement du domaine public, que ce soit en format imprimé ou électronique).

Politique éditoriale et éthique

Politique d’évaluation par les pairs

Atlantis accepte uniquement les soumissions inédites (c’est-à-dire qui ne sont pas actuellement du domaine public, que ce soit en format imprimé ou électronique), y compris les articles de recherche érudite, les articles de synthèse, les critiques de livres, les entretiens et les œuvres littéraires. Les articles de recherche originale et les articles de synthèse sont soumis à une évaluation par les pairs en double aveugle comportant au moins deux examinateurs externes. La décision de publication est basée sur les rapports des examinateurs. Pour en savoir plus sur le processus de soumission et d’évaluation, consultez la rubrique Soumissions.

Politique de libre accès

Cette revue permet un accès libre et immédiat à son contenu, selon le principe que le fait de mettre gratuitement la recherche à disposition du public favorise davantage d’échange de connaissances à l’échelle mondiale. Il n’y a pas de frais pour publier un article dans la revue Atlantis.

Archivage

Cette revue utilise le système LOCKSS pour créer un mécanisme d’archivage décentralisé entre les bibliothèques participantes et permet à ces bibliothèques de créer des archives permanentes de la revue à des fins de préservation et de restauration. Pour en savoir plus.

Déclaration de confidentialité

Les noms et les adresses de courriel entrés dans ce site Web seront utilisés exclusivement aux fins prévues par ce journal et ne seront pas divulgués à toute autre fin ou à toute autre partie.

Comité de rédaction

Editors / Editorial Board

Editorial Board members are selected by submitting their CV to the Board (via the Managing Editor (atlantismanagingeditor@gmail.com). An annual call for Board members will be circulated online and in the first quarter of each year. Board members are appointed for a three-year term with the option to renew.

The criteria for Editorial Board membership are:

• Experience in scholarly intersectional and feminist studies with a post-graduate academic degree, or a graduate degree in progress combined with community-based work;
• A publication record of research articles, books, or other types of scholarly work (including exhibits and performance pieces) related to the themes of intersectionality and feminism;
• Familiarity with the editorial and publication processes of academic journals. Ideally, previous experience on an Editorial Board;
• Current academic appointment at a university (or equivalent scholarly work);
• Proficiency in the English language.

Current Editorial Board members:

Christiana Abraham is Scholar in-residence, Critical Race Pedagogies at Concordia University. Her teaching and research specialities are in critical race studies, media, visual representations and culture; de/post-coloniality and gender; race, ethnicity and media and transnational and global-South media practices. A scholar, media practitioner, and independent curator, her scholarship is interested in the destabilization and re-visualization of visualities in anti-racist and de-colonial pedagogies. Her writings have been featured in the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, Atlantis, and TOPIA (forthcoming). She is the curator of Protests and Pedagogy: Representations, Memories, and Meanings, an archival exhibition that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Sir George Williams Student protest. Prior to this, she curated From the Archives to the Everyday: Caribbean Visualities and Meanings, a collection of vintage family photographs of Caribbean life.

Rohini Bannerjee (she.her.elle), born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, daughter of immigrants from Himachal Pradesh, India, is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages & Classics, Graduate Coordinator of the International Development Studies program and a Faculty Member in the Asian Studies, and Graduate Women & Gender Studies program at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. Rohini’s primary research focuses on the literatures and cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean. When she is not teaching poetry and fiction, she attempts to write it herself. Her work has appeared with Cambridge Scholars, Caitlin Press and Canadian Scholars and Women's Press. Rohini self identifies as a woman scholar of colour.

Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst (Journal Editor) is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her research is concerned with the relationships between power, embodiment, and (visual) culture, from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and decolonial thought.  She is author of Surface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin (MQUP, 2015), editor of Representing Abortion (Routledge, 2021), and co-editor of Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 2013) as well as a special section of Atlantis (41.1). Her most recent essays have been published in History of Photography, Feminist Studies, Configurations, and Body & Society.

Jennifer L. Johnson, PhD, holds degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies from York University, the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) and Queen’s University. Her community-based research and teaching are guided by deep commitments to critical pedagogies and methodologies that open onto better understandings of gender, race, and sexuality in un/paid work, space and place, and equitable workplaces. She is co-editor of Feminist Issues: Gender, Race, and Class 6th edition (Pearson Education, 2016), Feminist Praxis Revisited: Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement (WLUP, 2018) and Maternal Geographies: Mothering In and Out of Place (Demeter Press, 2019). Jen Johnson lives in Sudbury Ontario, on the traditional territories of Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation and Wahnapitae First Nation, and in acknowledgement of the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850.

Emma McKenna is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Criminology at the University of Ottawa and an Honorary Killam in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta (2020-2022). She is currently working on a book examining the overlaps and tensions between second wave anti-violence feminisms and the sex workers’ rights movement in Canada, and wrapping up a collaborative SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant with Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work, Educate, Resist. Her writing can be found in Sexualities; On_Culture; Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Women: A Cultural Review; Atlantis: Journal of Gender, Culture, and Social Justice; Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; and Journal of Gender Studies. She is also the author of the poetry collection Chenille or Silk. See www.emmamckenna.ca for updates.

Maki Motapanyane is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research spans the fields of feminist theory and methodology, colonialism/anti-colonial social movements/decolonization, motherhood, and cultural studies. Recent publications examine Canadian childcare policy, and EDI policies in academe. She is the editor of Motherhood and Lone/Single Parenting: A 21st Century Perspective (Demeter Press, 2016), Mothering in Hip-Hop Culture: Representation and Experience (Demeter Press, 2012), and co-editor (with Roksana Badruddoja) of "New Maternalisms": Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable) (Demeter Press, 2016).  Web: www.makimotapanyane.com 

Managing Editor

Katherine Barrett holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of British Columbia and is currently Adjunct Professor in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has published scholarly research in both the natural and social sciences, as well as literary work in journals such as The New Quarterly and The Antigonish Review. Katherine is the founder and editor of Understorey Magazine.

University Liaison

Tanja Harrison is the University Librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is also a PhD student enrolled in the Nova Scotia Inter-University Doctoral Program in Educational Studies within the foundations of leadership area of study. She holds degrees in classics, English, German, and art history from Bishop’s University as well as library and information studies from Dalhousie University. Tanja's current research is focused on developing a critical feminist history of library education in Canada during the early twentieth century with a focus on the Maritime provinces.

Administrative Assistant

Jessica Long completed her Master of Arts in Communication Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University and her undergraduate studies at Acadia University. Jessica is currently working as the Research Capacity Liaison in the MSVU Research Office.

Technical Support

Stanislav Orlov is a Systems Librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University. He has a Masters of Education from Moscow State Pedagogical University and a Masters of Information Studies from the University of Toronto. Besides ensuring seamless access to various e-resources, he teaches the Intro to Research in Info Age course. Stanislav’s research interests include Open Education Resources and Social Media in Libraries.