Call for papers: Special issue of Politique Africaine

Thursday, 19 May 2016

The journal Politique Africaine has called for submissions to a special issue on ‘The old and new faces of planning in Africa’.

Click here to download the call for papers document.

Submissions could engage with the following themes:

  • The history and circulation of planning models and techniques
  • The tools and actors of planning
  • The political repertoires and imaginaries of planning
  • The margins of planning

Important Dates

  • June 10, 2016: Deadline for submissions of proposals (1 page maximum summary) to Boris Samuel
  • June 24, 2016: Notification of acceptance to the selected authors
  • October 25, 2016: Deadline for sending draft articles to the editorial board (50,000 signs, including spaces and footnotes)
  • Oct. 2016-Feb. 2017: Evaluation, revision and (where necessary) translation of the texts selected by the editorial board of the review

The special issue will be published in March 2017. Submissions can be sent in English or French. The final publication will be in French.

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