Huellas (Footprints)
The spirit of this project is one of interdisciplinary nature, encompassing perspectives from the fields of anthropology, literature, archaeology, history, art history, sociology, philosophy, cultural and visual studies, and political theory. This interdisciplinary spirit aims to acknowledge subaltern histories and address the current reverberations of the past. It also embraces an analysis of empirical case studies or conceptual formations with the aim to critically asses the ways in which historical structures of perception, biopolitics, and necropolitics survive in our immediate present, and to enable the projection of “other” futures.
Lines and interests of the journal
- Epistemological foundations of anticolonial and decolonial thought: Past, present and future
Analysis of the epistemological basics of anti-colonial, decolonial and postcolonial thought from its origins, current debates and future projects.
- Visual studies: Slavery and (anti)colonialism
Analysis of the visual construction of the enslaved and colonised subject, including their forms of agency and resistance.
Institutional and amateur photography. The image in the era of postmemory.
- Literary studies: Slavery and (anti)colonialism
Analysis and interpretation of the literary representation of the enslaved and colonised subject in works produced in the colonial context or during the colonial period.
Analysis of the processes of appropriation, current use, and treatment of the figure of the enslaved and colonised subject in contemporary literary works.
- Cultural studies: Colonialism and its contemporary legacies
Study of the contemporary legacies of slavery, and neoslavery, in the post-abolition and colonial contexts.
- Reparations and restitution
Museums, archives, public and private collections, and (de)coloniality.
New cultural production that revisits the themes of slavery, colonialism and their legacies.
- Memory and postmemory
Affiliative memory and the links between memory and postmemory associated with the historical processes of slavery, colonialism and their legacies, especially in the Spanish-speaking context.
Frequency and structure
The journal will publish one issue per year; submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer review and evaluation process.
Each issue of the journal will contain a thematic dossier with a guest editor responsible for its coordination. This section is called IN FOCUS. At least six months prior to publication, the theme of the dossier will be made known in order to facilitate its preparation and the submission of manuscripts.
Furthermore, the journal will have a permanent section titled TRACES dedicated to miscellaneous material. In this section, a maximum of 10 articles of thematic interest to the journal will be selected for publication based on the double-blind peer revision and evaluation process.
Lastly, there will be a space dedicated to book reviews. Proposals for book reviews are welcome; the Editorial Board is responsible for determining their relevance to the objectives of the journal.
Those interested in coordinating the dossier are advised to contact the journal’s management and send a document presenting their project and justifying its interest and objectives. The proposal will be evaluated by the Editorial Board and a response will be issued within six months.
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