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peripheries 7
jails unprisoned
october | 2021

Peripheries, our bi-annual, thematic magazine published in four languages, is, above all, an agency of ideas. Characterized by its plurality of genders, languages, and narratives, and a conceptual, critical, vindicating, and propositive character in the field of alternatives, Peripheries combines multiple dimensions and perspectives, thus overcoming narratives of mere denunciation and grievance. This is our central understanding and launching point for Peripheries 7, Jails unprisioned dedicated to an active hope for a “world without prisons,” and the recognition of the potencies present in spaces of confinement.

This edition has a propositive perspective, highlighting alternatives to incarceration and standing as a counterpoint to the hegemonic punitivistic logic. We thus value dimensions of critical academia, good journalism, and artistic production, as well as testimonies of experience and reflections from within the prison system.

In this way, we will bring visibility to the experiences and propositions of different subjects, individuals, and collectives, in the textual genres proposed below, with greater emphasis given to those who have passed through situations of incarceration and those that act in this social field, as well those that operate in the system, editorial and artistic collectives, human rights defenders, representatives from the judiciary, and State agents that deal with the issue of prisons.

The reality of policies of social, ethnic, racial, and gender-based segregation, as well as the effective loss of citizenship (even upon returning to society), form the basis of the propositive character of Peripheries 7. At the same time, this issue will propose paths for overcoming the contemporary phenomenon of imprisonment. In effect, if punitivism drives incarceration, its counterpoint stands firmly on the side of the right to liberty, valuing alternative conceptions of conflict resolution and safeguarding human dignity.

Such readings broaden our comprehension of both mass and selective incarceration, as well as the viability of decarceration, as experiences in different territories and countries demonstrate.

editorial guide 

Peripheries takes the manifestation and appreciation of the Potency of the Peripheries as its guiding editorial line. Collaboration proposals submitted should consider and attend to this principle. For more information see the Letter from Maré and "The Paradigm of Potency and the Pedagogy of Coexistence."

We wish to emphasize that the concept of the Periphery should be considered broadly, extrapolating the urban sphere and contemplating non-hegemonic peripheral realities. As such, we consider the Periphery to include populations and territories composed of the indigenous, quilombolas, religious/ethnic minorities, and Romani peoples, as well as questions of ethnicity and race, gender, LGBTQ+, refugees, and migration.

proposals and submissions

Submissions will be accepted until August 1 at revista@imja.org.br. Peripheries accepts submissions in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French in accordance with the details specified below in each editorial category.

The Journal accepts submissions that have appeared elsewhere for publication (maximum one other publication platform).

• article
  article up to 2500 words.

• short story
   short story up to 2000 words.

• statement
  personal statement containing up to 2500 words.

• photographic essay
  Collections of photographs on the same theme, containing between 5 and 10 images, with an introductory text. Photographs should be sent in low resolution for consideration. In case of approval, we will send technical specifications for publication. 

• visual arts
  Image production — comics, cartoons, graffiti, painting, engraving, wood engraving, artistic interventions, interventions in space, and all other image-based artistic expressions —, with an introductory text. Images should be sent in low resolution for consideration, with due credit when necessary. In case of approval, we will send technical specifications for publication.

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