We are pleased to announce the new ACME Editorial Collective, with Jack Gieseking serving as Managing Editor. We are grateful to our previous Managing Editors, Simon Springer and Levi Gahman, and our Editors Sean Wang, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Laura Bisaillon, and Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch for their years of service. The new Editorial Collective looks forward to supporting the open access publication of critical and radical geographical scholarship for years to come. Click through for the full listing of the ACME Editorial Collective.

 

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The editorial collective of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographers supports Black Lives Matter. 

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ACME has decided that it is best for us to establish a rolling pause on all new submissions not related to issues amplified by, adjacent to, or instigated by COVID-19, and submissions not by junior authors who need papers to go through at this time. Given the unprecedented situation of COVID-19, we are also unsure when, exactly, we will be able to receive new work. The severity of the ongoing pandemic is immense and we, as a Collective and journal, feel like a full slowdown is needed, not only to support our editorial Collective but also to support our reviewers, who tend to reflect the disproportionately marginalized people we study. As we announce this on May Day, it is especially a time for ACME to rethink our priorities and identity, to take care in all aspects of our life and of those we love, and to enact our best way forward in support of the reproductive labor of journal work. By work that is “amplified by, adjacent to, or instigated by COVID-19,” we recognize that authors have research manuscripts that already speak to the violence and disparities seen during this pandemic. 

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Our first issue of 2020 features a themed issue on the narratives of populations suffering from displacement on a global scale. It also includes eleven research articles ranging from topics including urban conflict, housing, geographies of anti-Blackness, and Indigenous geographies.

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Dear all,

In this time of crisis, we hope you are well and connected to those you love. 

We are writing now to announce that ACME will pause accepting of most new work through April 15th. However, as an online journal with the ability to publish quickly and publicly, we will accept new work regarding COVID-19 to make sure this work can reach public audiences in a timely manner. We will not send out reviewer reminders for most publications through this period, with the exception of early career researchers who may still need feedback during this time and we will support them in all ways possible. As an all-volunteer journal, we will do our best to continue to support our authors and keep working on those papers already submitted. We are already set to continue to publish issues.

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ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies invites applications for Editors to join the journal’s Collective. We are seeking at least EIGHT new editors. All who apply will be considered. A commitment to mutuality, collective work, conviviality, and punctuality is required. No previous editorial experience is required; ACME will offer mentorship by previous editors and create cohorts to build expertise. Previous editorial experience is appreciated but not at all required or expected.

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ACME will not be publishing our February issue in solidarity with our colleagues in France who have shut down their journals as part of the protest against the neoliberalization of the university. Please share information of this strike with other lists and your colleagues. For more about the protest, see the links below the protest image.

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February 7, 2020 :: We, the ACME editorial collective, stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and land defenders who are lawfully defending their unceded territories from violent raids, invasions, and unlawful uses in efforts to advance development of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline by TC Energy (formerly TransCanada).

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Our last issue of 2019 features an intervention on the geography of peace, and eight research articles on topics ranging from anti-immigration policy and necropolitics to doctoral fieldwork experiences with and without Indigenous communities.

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We are not accepting special issue or themed section proposals at this time.

We are working through the special issue and themed section proposals currently underway and will announce when are able to accept new proposals.

Thank you for your understanding,
ACME Editorial Collective

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This special issue, guest edited by Caitlin Cahill, and Rachel Pain, revolves around the theme of ‘Slow Violence’.

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This issue includes interventions on ’climate mathematics’, ‘care-full’ academic spaces, a photo essay, and new research articles on mutual aid, wind energy, the Knitting Nannas Against Gas, and more.

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This issue includes an intervention on ‘slow conferencing,’ and new research articles on environmental justice, research on sexual violence, art and rural gentrification, and more.

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This issue includes a themed section on “Acting Peripheries,” and new creative and research articles on contested public space, green grabbing, public art and more.

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This issue includes a themed section on “Border Imperialism,” and new research articles on feminist countertopographies, vers une recherche-création, decolonizing postcolonial thinking, and undoing fieldwork.

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This issue includes themed section on “Food Justice Scholar-Activism and Activist-Scholarship,” and new research articles on biometrics, university responses to the travel ban, and more.

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Check out the third issue of 2018, hot off the press!

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Our latest issue is published!

This issue includes an intervention on academic freedom, a themed section on “(urban) commons to commoning: political practices and horizons in the Mediterranean context”, and new research articles.

https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/issue/view/109

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Our latest issue is published!

This issue includes coverart work by Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, an intervention by geographers on Trump, and new research articles.

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Our latest issue is published!

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Vol 16, No 3 (2017)

Our latest issue is published!

It includes a themed section on critical geographical queer semiotics, as well as original research articles.

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