Call for Submissions – Special Issue on Identity as Resistance

On June 15^th, initial proposals are due for a”” We look forward to your submissions!

For this special issue, we are seeking work that recognizes and examines the intertwined nature of individuals and our sociopolitical environments.Specifically, we aim to bring together research on identity as a means, result, and possible path of resistance to systemic oppression, in particular in the current context.

The body of work gathered in this special issue should highlight and explore the diverse ways that individuals experience, make sense of, and push against various forms of societal inequity as they navigate and develop their identities. Submissions can focus on identity or the self across domains and social locations, including but not limited to race and ethnicity, religion, immigration, sexuality, gender, and ability.

Although all methods are welcome, we are particularly interested in research that takes a critical, participatory, and/or community-oriented lens, drawing on any type of qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods approach. In addition to empirical studies, we welcome theoretical and conceptual submissions focused on how identity scholars might shift our methods, approaches, or frameworks to foster greater research on identity as resistance. Across submission types, we encourage work anchored in sociopolitical context.

We welcome submissions from across subdisciplines of psychology (e.g., clinical, community, counseling, developmental, educational, social, organizational) as well as adjacent fields (e.g., anthropology, education, family studies, sociology). Regardless of study design or method, we recommend including a stated consideration of guiding onto-epistemological paradigms as well as a reflection on how authors’ positionality shapes their work.

Interested authors should submit a proposal of no more than 700 words that describes the full paper they intend to submit. Please use the above information about the call to guide the proposal and also include a sentence regarding timeline of data collection and analysis, if applicable. Please send one email to all three guest editors (emails below) with the proposal attached as a PDF. Include names and contact information of all authors.

Guest editors’ decisions and feedback regarding invitations for full manuscript submission will be sent to authors.

Invited full manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines (Instructions for Authors) and submitted through the journal’s submission portal indicating that their proposal is for the special issue “Identity as Resistance.” All submitted papers will undergo a full peer review. The guest editors will act as action editors on all special issue submissions, with each manuscript being sent out for blind peer review. An invitation to submit a full paper is, thus, not a guarantee of publication.

To submit a proposal or for more information about this special issue, please contact the guest editors:

The Identity journal is indexed in all main databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PsychInfo, etc). Its 5-year impact factor (IF) is 2.5 (2024; Journal citation reports) and its CiteScore (Scopus) is 5.1 (Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile; Scimago).

The journal is hybrid, meaning that authors can publish their work open access but there is no obligation to do so. For more info on the journal, please visit the journal website.