The editorial board of Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa / Nationalities Affairs (https: //ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sn/index) has launched a call for articles addressing real and virtual spaces of exclusion. The articles need to be written in English and submitted by February 28, 2022. Visit the journal's website (https: //ispan.waw.pl/downloads/SN54-CfP.pdf) to learn about further requirements.
Nowadays people and groups can be excluded on real as well as virtual levels. When it comes to physical spaces, fences, walls and borders strengthened with barbed wire are built. There could be various reasons for exclusion, resulting from personal or group characteristics, for instance ethnic origin, religion, class, age, gender, sexual orientation and expression. This causes the feeling of being excluded both on individual and collective levels. But exclusion can also mean a limited access to various services and goods. In economic terms, we can observe how people are excluded by the lack of access to education or public transport. Moreover, exclusion can be determined by the geographical location, especially in partially recognized states. Yet, exclusion can be marked in physical spaces also by symbolic practices, e.g. toppling statues and sites of memory, territorial restrictions (so called “free zones”) or exclusive language policy in naming places. The same examples are palpable in virtual spaces. Here, the limited access to information can be especially severe. It comprises the aforementioned phenomenon of filter bubbles. Furthermore, we can follow various cases of exclusion in (but not limited to) literary works, film and theatrical productions.
Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa / Nationalities Affairs (SNSN) is the leading Polish journal devoted to nationalism and ethnicity, publishing articles in humanities and social sciences. The aim of the journal is to provide a platform for trans-disciplinary research on nationalism and ethnic issues, especially in Central Europe. The subject area in focus is the empirical and theory-oriented study of nationalism and ethnicity, pursued with a view to making a contribution to the development of Central European area studies.