NOTICE:
Publication of Issue 2 of the Journal has been postponed while the editors are involved in other major projects. Publication is expected to resume in early 2012.
Stay tuned for updates.
The Basics:
The Journal for Human Advancement: Independent Projects for Progress and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication prepared by The Goodis Center for Research and Reform, LLC. It is set to be published semi-annually online and on CD. The inaugural issue was published in February/March 2010.
The notion of human advancement raised in the title of the journal is intended to speak to our goal of advancing and protecting human rights. Our journal does not aim solely to discuss matters of human rights, but also to find ways to achieve and preserve those rights.
The Purpose:
This Journal is published in order to encourage and develop a general public familiarity with human rights and to foster a productive critical understanding of human rights ideology and practice. Articles include basic introductions to the material, case studies, and theoretical discussions, as well as scientific and artistic works that deal with any themes in human rights.
This Journal is intended to work towards an understanding for the origins, development, direction, applications, conflicts and controversies in human rights, as well as to bring attention to both the relation between human rights and policy and the implementation of policies into practice. Moreover, the Journal for Human Advancement seeks to bring together various disciplines and genres to promote a multifaceted and interdisciplinary framework for evaluating, advancing and protecting human rights.
What's Inside:
The journal is a venue for all things dealing with human rights and/or human advancement. Works may include:
Essays, lectures, research reports or abstracts from any of the humanities or social or natural sciences.
Artistic media and multimedia presentations including, but not limited to: photographs and photo-essays, films and videos, theatrical performances and scripts, dances, songs, readings, poetry, prose, drawings, sketches, paintings, graphic and studio arts, et cetera.
The Goodis Center encourages authors to submit works that contribute to an informed understanding of human rights and objective human advancement from any academic discipline or artistic genre. Works also include those that help to flesh-out discussions within human rights or to 'bring home' these matters to the audiences, as well as any works that problematize relevant ideology and policy. Acceptable submissions may simply review established literature with an accessible, well-rounded and articulated perspective or they may offer strong, progressive critiques of human rights. The Journal is also seeking works that can help to relate matters of human rights with our everyday lives.
The Authors and Artists:
Many of our authors and artists are undergraduate students; however, the Journal is open to submissions from everyone. Everyone is welcome to submit their original, unpublished works to this journal for consideration. Students of all levels, academics, professionals, and amateurs alike are all encouraged to send in their works to be reviewed by our editors and for a chance to be published alongside other thinkers, researchers, artists, and activists.
Submission Guidelines:
Submission guidelines can be found in the front-matter of any published issue of the Journal. A PDF overview of our guidelines is available here.
And while you're at it, check out our special request for our first issue.
Submission does not guarantee publication. Copies of the Journal will be provided to those published in each respective issue only if funding permits. Published authors and artists will receive free online access to their issues through The Goodis Center for Research and Reform, LLC.
The Journal makes no guarantee that it will be able to provide feedback on any submissions it receives. Our staff will try to provide a productive review and critique of all submissions, but our capacity for this amount of work as a fully volunteer-based organization will be limited.
If you still have questions, please contact us at journal@thegoodiscenter.org for more information.
If you have materials to submit that already meet the guidelines, please email your submission to journal@thegoodiscenter.org and/or mail it in duplicate to:
Journal for Human Advancement
Robert Goodis, Editor
30 Campus Road
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-9800
advancing and protecting human rights since 2009
