Dialogue Submission Guidelines

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Here at Dialogue we understand politics to be fluid and inter-disciplinary. It concerns the power relations that affect race, gender, culture, society, economics, history, philosophy, ethics, and morality in domestic, international, local, and personal spaces.

We accept submission all year round. We encourage dialogue between submissions, including formal responses and replies to published content as well as comments to published articles.

Although Dialogue is a student run journal you do not have to be a student to submit, you must however meet the guidelines for your submission to be considered.

All submissions are published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-4.0 license. Copyright remains with the author(s).

Images in the visual essay will be accepted under the following copyright provision:

1. Use materials that are no longer in copyright or where permission has been sought for the use.
2. Use materials that have been licensed under creative commons.
3. Use materials in accordance with the fair dealing exception for ‘criticism and review’.  The fair dealing exception of ‘criticism and review’ allows reproduction and use of copyright protected material that is consistent with critiquing and analysing the content and/or the ideas underlying it or critiquing the author of the work. (where there is any uncertainty Dialogue retains the right to reject eh submission

Style Guide

All submission must follow the style guidelines outlined below; submissions which do not meet these guidelines will not be considered until the guidelines are fulfilled.

Essays

Essays are short analysis articles. They must have a coherent argument supported by a methodology/method. Opinion pieces and journalistic accounts are not accepted. All topics related to politics, broadly understood, are welcome.

Essays must be original work and fully referenced. They must not be under consideration elsewhere.

We accept all variants or English, as far as it is consistent, and grammar correct.

Referencing: any referencing style commonly employed in your discipline, as long as it remains consistent throughout the whole article. If using notes, use endnotes rather than footnotes, as footnotes cannot be supported. Hyperlinks are encouraged, but are not a substitute for proper referencing.

Font- 12pt Times New Roman, no indent, single spaced, one space after the full stop. When quoting, please prefer single quotation marks ‘, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Quotes longer than 40 words should be indented.

Length: 3000-4000, bibliography excluded. Essay submissions must be accompanied by:

• An abstract of no more than 200 words;
• A title of no more than 80 characters;
• Five keywords (to allow your essay to be found via a search function);
• Short bio of no more than 200 words.

Blog

Blog posts are short entries that aim at tackling a topic in a punchy and more informal way. An argument is not necessary – yet not excluded. This is also the space to pose questions, as well as propose solutions, initiate debates, discuss fieldwork and teaching/studying best-practices. Normal academic practice around referencing is expected, hyperlinks are encouraged.

Length: 800-1000 words max

Font: 12pt Times New Roman, no indent, single spaced, one space after the full stop. Hyperlinks are encouraged

Blogs must be accompanied by:

• Title of no more than 80 characters;
• Five keywords (to allow your essay to be found via a search function);
• Short bio of no more than 200 words.

Visual Essays

This section is dedicated to visual politics and accommodates photos and videos. We accept analyses of photos and videos made by you, as well as responses to existing visual artefacts. You can provide photos and videos followed by an analytical description of 2000 words max, or you can provide the link of the image or video you want to do a critical analysis of or respond to. Interviews are also accepted. Film, performances, and exhibition reviews are welcome as long as the politics of them is the main focus of the article. Discussions around visual methods are strongly encouraged.

The fair dealing exception of ‘criticism and review’ allows reproduction and use of copyright protected material that is consistent with critiquing and analysing the content and/or the ideas underlying it or critiquing the author of the work.

Length: 2000 words max and a minimum of one image or link to the visual artifact under consideration.

Font: 12pt Times New Roman, no indent, single spaced, one space after the full stop.

Copyright: Dialogue will accept images and film under the following copyright provisions.

1. Use materials that are no longer in copyright or where permission has been sought for the use.
2. Use materials that have been licensed under creative commons.
3. Use materials in accordance with the fair dealing exception for ‘criticism and review’.  The fair dealing exception of ‘criticism and review’ allows reproduction and use of copyright protected material that is consistent with critiquing and analysing the content and/or the ideas underlying it or critiquing the author of the work. (where there is any uncertainty Dialogue retains the right to reject eh submission

Visual Essays must be accompanied by:

• An abstract of no more than 200 words;
• A title of no more than 80 characters;
• Five keywords (to allow your essay to be found via a search function);
• Short bio of no more than 200 words.

Book Review

Book review headline – Name of author(s), year, full name of book reviewed in italics, city, publisher.

Book Reviews must be accompanied by:

• An abstract of no more than 200 words;
• A title of no more than 80 characters;
• Five keywords (to allow your essay to be found via a search function);
• Short bio of no more than 200 words.

Copyright

The copyright of photographs or moving image must be held by the author and clearly established prior to submission