Postcolonial Studies is the journal of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne.
Postcolonial Studies is the first international journal dedicated to exploring the colonial encounter and the variety of ways in which colonial relations and processes shaped and continue to shape the global world order.
In the context of world history, the colonial encounter was a violent event whose legacies thread through to the present. Colonialism structures relationships between peoples in a multitude of ways. It gives rise to distinct bodies of literature and art, as well as political subjectivities and brutal economic inequalities. Colonial relationships and broader processes of coloniality are investigated from a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives. Postcolonial theory offers distinct critical perspectives on diverse circumstances historically and in the present. Postcolonial Studies is a leading forum for timely interventions and searching debates that traverse, but are not limited to, settler colonialism and indigenous-settler relations, nationalism, citizenship, statelessness, political violence, gender and sexuality, displacement and migration, climate justice and environmental ethics, human/non-human relations, decolonising movements, aesthetics, and poetics of colonial engagement.
Postcolonial Studies welcomes original, creative, and challenging submissions of diverse lengths and formats. The journal publishes research that is theoretically insightful and specifically grounded. It aims to generate dialogue and debate between theorists, writers, artists, and activists in support of world-changing relationships transnationally.
29 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
8% acceptance rate
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
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the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
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Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Global Editors: Francisco Carballo -Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Ramaswami Harindranath -University of New South Wales, Australia Dolly Kikon- University of Melbourne, Australia Priya Kumar - University of Delhi, India David L. Martin -Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Suren Pillay- University of Western Cape, South Africa Katerina Teaiwa - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Convening Editors: Crystal McKinnon -Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Australia Evelyn Araluen -Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Australia
Reviews Editor: Michele Lobo - Deakin University, Australia
Managing Editor: Aran Martin - Institute for Postcolonial Studies, Australia International Consulting Editors: Ackbar Abbas - University of Hong Kong, China Pal Ahluwalia - University of the South Pacific, Fiji Samantha Balaton-Chrimes -Deakin University, Australia Tani Barlow - Rice University, USA Iain Chambers - Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy Dipesh Chakrabarty -University of Chicago, USA Partha Chatterjee - Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences, Calcutta, India Rey Chow - Duke University, USA Yue Daiyun - Beijing University, China Liu Dong - Beijing University, China Simon During - University of Melbourne, Australia Leela Gandhi -University of Chicago, USA Michele Grossman -Deakin University, Australia Ranajit Guha - Vienna, Austria Sneja Gunew - University of British Columbia, Canada Wang Hui - Qinghua University, China David Lloyd - University of California, Riverside, USA Abdul Jan Mohamed - University of California, Berkeley, USA Meaghan Morris - Sydney University, Australia Ashis Nandy - Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India Rajyashree Pandey - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Gyan Prakash - Princeton University, USA Naoki Sakai - Cornell University, USA VanitaSeth - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Yashon Tandon - University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Sue Thomas - La Trobe University, Australia Tim Watson - University of Miami, USA
Updated 18-04-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/ Indexed in: America: History and Life; Historical Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; C S A Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; EBSCOhost; Humanities International Index; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Swets Information Services and Thomson Gale; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Current Contents:Arts and Humanities; Current Contents:Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Sciences Citation Index; and Journal Citation Report: Social Sciences Edition.
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Postcolonial Studies is published on behalf of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS), an independent educational institution devoted to understanding postcolonialism and putting it into practice. It was established in 1996 at the initiative of Phillip Darby and Michael Dutton and is now overseen by the IPCS board and council. The Institute engages in activities that encompass intellectual enquiry, public debate and artistic expression. Membership is open to all.
Print ISSN:
1368-8790
Online ISSN:
1466-1888
4 issues per year
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