期刊名称：FOCAAL-JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims & Scope
Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history, as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as "globalization" or "empire."
Seeking contributions on all world regions, Focaal is unique among anthropology journals for consistently rejecting the old separations between "at home" and "abroad," "center" and "periphery." The journal therefore strives for the resurrection of an "anthropology at large" that can accommodate issues of the global south, postsocialism, mobility, metropolitan experience, capitalist power, and popular resistance into integrated perspectives.
Indexing/Abstracting
Focaal is indexed/abstracted in:
- Abstracts in Anthropology (Baywood)
- Anthropological Literature (Tozzer Library – Harvard University)
- Anthropological Index (RAI)
- Bibliometric Research Indicator List (BFI) – Level 2
- Biography Index (Ebsco)
- Cabell's Directory
- Current Bibliography on African Affairs (Baywood)
- Current Contents/Social & Behaviorial Sciences (Web of Science)
- Electronic Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East (Dayan Center)
- European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS)
- IBR – International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (De Gruyter)
- IBZ – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences (De Gruyter)
- IBSS – International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (Proquest)
- MLA Directory of Periodicals
- MLA International Bibliography
- National Library of Medicine (PubMed)
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
- Periodicals Acquisitions (Proquest)
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Social Sciences Abstracts (Ebsco)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Social Sciences Index (Ebsco)
- Social Services Abstracts (Proquest)
- Sociological Abstracts (Proquest)
- Sustainability Science Abstracts (Proquest)
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Proquest)
Instructions to Authors
General Submission Guidelines
Please review the submission and style guidelines carefully before submitting.
- Use concise titles.
- Do not use notes for referencing.
- Provide acknowledgments under a separate heading.
- Provide page numbers for all quotations.
- Reference lists should include full names (not just initials) of authors.
- Do not capitalize titles, subtitles, or referenced book titles.
- Follow Focaal style of reference (see samples in Style Guide).
Theme Section Proposals
Proposals should include:
- A 1-page introduction outlining original contribution/theoretical intervention of theme section
- A list of abstracts of proposed articles
- Short biographical notes of authors and theme section editor(s)
Theme Section
- Will be 40,000 words maximum (including notes and references)—that is, 3 to 5 articles plus introduction. Theme section articles should cohere in an obvious and interesting manner.
- Will include an introduction that lays out substantively the intellectual program behind the theme section: how does the theme section intervene in existing debates in anthropology?
- Will include a picture for the cover of the volume, referred to in the introduction. The picture should be:
- of good technical quality (pixel density suitable for printing, well-composed)
- reflect in an interesting and original manner the theme of the section as well as the general mission of the journal (as stated in the journal blurb)
- available in terms of copyright
- Theme section articles should include:
- an abstract of 125 words (no verbatim sections from text)
- list of 5 to 8 keywords
- biographical note of 100 words
- contact e-mail of author
General Articles
Articles should be 8,000 words maximum (including notes and references) and include:
- an abstract of 125 words (no verbatim sections from text)
- a list of 5 to 8 keywords
- a biographical note of 100 words
- contact e-mail of author
Forum Articles
Articles should be 5,000 words maximum (including notes and references) and include:
- a biographical note of 100 words
- contact e-mail of author
Style: few references, more free essayist and assertive, experimental writing, including much local detail in the narrative and presenting a more personal voice. Authors are encouraged to bring forward a strong intellectual/political statement, accompanied by reportage.
Review Articles
Review articles are expected to provide a balanced discussion of the works reviewed, taking into account their intrinsic value. Although the editors welcome critical contributions to ongoing debates, we discourage inappropriate remarks, such as gratuitous or personal attacks, and reserve the right to reject reviews deemed unfitting or unsubstantial. Fairness is a paramount criterion in Focaal reviews.
Reviews should be submitted electronically to Focaal's book review editor, Christopher Krupa, at chris.krupa@utoronto.ca. We ask reviewers to check for acknowledgment of receipt within two weeks. The book review editor, sometimes assisted by other members of Focaal or experts on the topic, will go through the submitted reviews and ask the reviewer for revision of the article where necessary.
Focaal's policy is to commission review articles to specialists on a given topic. In some cases, authors of the works reviewed may also be invited to send in a response for publication in Focaal. We do welcome spontaneous offers of reviews/responses that are relevant to Focaal. We ask contributors, however, to coordinate such initiatives with the book review editor.
When writing your review article, please follow the following guidelines:
- A review article should be 3,000 words max (including references and notes).
- At least two books should be discussed. We encourage the review of works with contrasting approaches to a given topic.
- For reasons of fairness, articles should first offer a sensitive commentary on the main argument of the different books before engaging in critical, comparative debate with the authors on their theoretical or ethnographic conclusions.
- Rather than simply summarizing or listing each chapter of the books or edited volumes, we expect the reviewer to offer substantive reflections on, for example, the soundness of the theory and methodology, the style of argumentation, the possible impact of the work on ongoing debates, the ethical/political implications of the chosen approach, or the relevance of the work for particular research agendas. When reviewing an edited volume, do not feel that you must write about, or even mention, every chapter. Instead please describe the overall focus of the volume, pick a few significant contributions, and discuss those in detail.
- We ask reviewers to avoid lengthy direct quotations.
- For correct referencing, placement of notes, and other style guidelines please see the Style Guide for samples.
- Though we welcome the review of books from any social science discipline, we do ask authors to be explicit about the relevance of works from outside the discipline of anthropology to ongoing debates within anthropology broadly defined.
Please address all editorial correspondence to:
Tilde Siglev, Deputy Managing Editor
E-mail: siglev.focaal@gmail.com
Have other questions? Please refer to the Berghahn Info for Authors page for general information and guidelines including topics such as article usage and permissions for Berghahn journal article authors.
License Agreement
As part of the Berghahn Open Anthro initiative, articles in Focaal are published open access under a Creative Commonslicense.
Authors must visit our License Options page to select and download their preferred license agreement. Completed and signed forms should be sent to copyright@berghahnjournals.com.
Ethics Statement
Authors published in Focaal certify that their works are original and their own. The editors certify that all materials, with the possible exception of editorial introductions, book reviews, and some types of commentary, have been subjected to double-blind peer review by qualified scholars in the field. While the publishers and the editorial board make every effort to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions, or statements appear in this journal, they wish to make clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles herein are the sole responsibility of the contributor concerned. For a more detailed explanation concerning these qualifications and responsibilities, please see the complete Focaal ethics statement.
Editorial Board
Managing and Lead Editor
Luisa Steur, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Editor-at-Large
Don Kalb, University of Bergen, Norway
Editors
Charlotte Bruckerman, University of Cologne, Germany
Stephen Campbell, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Alina-Sandra Cucu, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Zoltan Glück, Northeastern University, USA
Dimitra Kofti, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
Christopher Krupa, University of Toronto, Canada
Patrick Neveling, Bournemouth University, UK
Elisabeth Schober, University of Oslo, Norway
Steve Striffler, University of Massachusetts, USA
Anne-Christine Trémon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Theodora Vetta, University of Barcelona, Spain
Oane Visser, International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands Deputy Managing Editor
Tilde Siglev, Central European University, Hungary
Editorial Board
Sharryn Kasmir, Hofstra University, USA
Mao Mollona, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Mathijs Pelkmans, London School of Economics, UK
Oscar Salemink, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Alpa Shah, London School of Economics, UK
Gavin Smith, University of Toronto, Canada
Consulting Editors
George Baca, City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and Dong-A University, South Korea
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Leigh Binford, City University of New York (CUNY), USA
Anton Blok, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Glenn Bowman, University of Kent, UK
Ayse Çaglar, University of Vienna, Austria
Gus Carbonella, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Manuela Ciotti, Aarhus University, Denmark
Donald Donham, University of California at Davis, USA
Hastings Donnan, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Ger Duijzings, University College London, UK
Marc Edelman, Hunter College and City University of New York (CUNY), USA
Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, USA
Halleh Ghorashi, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands
Andre Gingrich, University of Vienna, Austria
Nina Glick Schiller, University of New Hampshire, USA, and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Don Handelman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Holly High, University of Sydney, Australia, and University of Cambridge, UK
Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge, UK
Willy Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Tobias Kelly, University of Edinburgh, UK
Orvar Löfgren, Lund University, Sweden
Christian Lund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jeremy MacClancy, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Hans Marks, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Birgit Müller, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France
David Nugent, Emory University, USA
Wil G. Pansters, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Steve Reyna, University of New Hampshire, USA, and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Roger Rouse, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Irene Silverblatt, Duke University, USA
Peter Skalnik, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Richard Staring, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Michael Stewart, University College London, UK
Maruska Svasek, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Katherine Verdery, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), USA
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