About the Journal
Focus and scope
InSURgence: rights and social movements journal [InSURgência: revista de direitos e movimentos sociais], linked to the Institute for Research, Rights and Social Movements [Instituto de Pesquisa, Direitos e Movimentos Sociais - IPDMS] and linked to the Graduate Program in Human Rights and Citizenship at the University of Brasilia [Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direitos Humanos e Cidadania da Universidade de Brasília - PPGDH/UnB] aims to disseminate unpublished theoretical production regarding the theme “rights and social movements”. With the perspective of boosting the research activity developed with, by and for social movements, mobilizing researchers from all over Brazil in various thematic areas, IPDMS proposes to publish a publication, in the format of an international journal, that promotes productions theorists who are committed to the construction of critical and liberating knowledge on the subject of rights and social movements, allowing the creative and engaged elaboration of analyzes and interpretations on the various subjects that affect the Brazilian and Latin American people.
The journal admits productions related to the theme rights and social movements, considering as areas of interest those linked to the IPDMS Thematic Groups (TGs): 1 - Popular legal advice, legal education and popular education; 2 - Law and Marxism; 3 - Critical thinking and militant research in Latin America; 4 - Agrarian question, socio-environmental conflicts, peoples and traditional communities; 5 - Gender, sexuality and rights; 6 - City and rights; 7 - World of Work; 8 - Critical criminology and social movements; 9 - Observatory of the Justice System, public policies and the Legislative; 10 - Observatory of the media and human rights; 11 - Law, children and adolescents; 12 - Law, memory and transitional justice; 13 - Law and racial relations.
Periodicity
The publications are biannual, occurring from the year 2025 in the months of March and September each year.
Peer review process
The process of evaluating scientific articles is done by double-blind peer review, except in the sections Insurgent Dialogs, Political Poetics and Praxis of Liberation. The evaluation is carried out by members of the Reviewers body of InSURgence Journal or from ad hoc guests.
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Open and Free Access Policy
The InSURgence Journal provides immediate, free, and open access to its content, aiming for the broad socialization of knowledge and the democratization of research. All articles are published under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.
The journal follows the DOAJ definition of "Open Access Journals," where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others through an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent). This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
In accordance with this policy, all content is available for free and open access without delay (no embargo period, and no user registration required to read the content).
There are no submission fees, and authors are not charged Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Copyright policy
The Journal reserves the right to make changes in the original spelling and grammar, as well as to adapt to technical standards of citation and referencing, without changing the content and style of the texts. The revision of the texts, however, remains the responsibility of the authors.
When making submissions, the authors authorize the publication of the submitted documents, taking responsibility for their authorship and/or their rights of use, and agree that, in case of publication, this will be carried out under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
In the event of any conflict of interest or submission of the same text to another journal, the authors undertake to provide appropriate information to InSURgence Journal through the submission system or by their institutional e-mail address.
Errata and Excuse Policy
In case of verification of ethical conflicts, plagiarism, redundant publications, use of materials without rights of use, infringement of copyright or absence of declaration of conflicts of interest by the authors, the InSURgence Journal reserves the right to retract publications made on the basis of its Statement of Ethics on Publications and the guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE.
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Archiving and Repository Policy
This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent journal files for preservation and restoration. Learn more.
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, allowing for the creation of permanent archives for preservation and restoration purposes. Furthermore, the journal is integrated into the PKP PN (Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network) to ensure long-term digital archiving.
The journal encourages authors to deposit their work in institutional or thematic repositories, adhering to open access criteria: a) the deposit of the preprint (submitted version), postprint (accepted version after peer review), and publisher's version (final published PDF) is permitted; b) there is no embargo period, and access is immediate; and c) the deposit must maintain the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License and include a full citation of the original source of publication with its respective DOI.
Section policy
Insurgence has sections with open and continuous flow submissions and closed ones. To know about each of the sections, see Section Policy.
*About de Journal of 2026, January 08.
