About the Journal
FOCUS AND SCOPE
InSURgência: revista de direitos e movimentos sociais [InSURgence: rights and social movements journal], linked to the Instituto de Pesquisa, Direitos e Movimentos Sociais - IPDMS [Institute for Research, Rights and Social Movements] and linked to the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direitos Humanos e Cidadania da Universidade de Brasília (PPGDH/UnB) [Graduate Program in Human Rights and Citizenship at the University of Brasilia] aims to disseminate unpublished theoretical production regarding the theme “rights and social movements”.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.
BLIND PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The process of evaluating scientific articles is carried out by pairs of blind evaluators, members of the journal's reviewer body, all researchers on the theme of rights and social movements. The evaluation will take into account the thematic relevance and the adequacy to the journal's editorial standards, which may result in the approval of the article, with or without recommendation of changes, as well as non-approval. In all cases, the authors will be informed and will have time to make any changes. In order to be approved for publication, the paper must not have received an opinion of refusal by an appraiser. The Journal reserves the right to make changes in the original orthographic and grammatical order, without altering the content and style of the texts.
FREQUENCY
Half-yearly.
FREE ACCESS POLICY
InSURgência: revista de direitos e movimentos sociais offers free access to its content, in order to ensure a broad socialization of knowledge and democratization of research.
ARCHIVING
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SECTION POLICIES
I. INSURGENT DIALOGUES
Interview section, tributing to Miguel Pressburger.
Open submissions.
II. DOSSIER
Scientific articles section.
- Open submissions
- Indexed articles
- Blind peer review
- Free access
- Responsibility of the authors
Open Submissions | Indexed | Peer-reviewed
III. IN DEFENSE OF RESEARCH
Free articles section, tributing to Patrícia Galvão.
- Open submissions
- Indexed
- Blind peer review system
- Free access
- Responsibility of the authors
Open Submissions | Indexed | Peer-reviewed
IV. GENERATING THEMES
Entries section, tributing to Paulo Freire.
Open Submissions.
V. RELEASE PRAXIS
Section of texts and documents of the social movements, tributing to Enrique Dussel.
Open Submissions.
VI. POLITICAL POETICS
Section of texts and artistic manifestations, tributing to Augusto Boal
Open Submissions.
VII. RETURN NOTEBOOK
Text review section, tributing to Aimé Césaire.
Open Submissions.
