A special edition of the Journal of Arts and Communities dedicated to Arts and Human Rights is due to be published in September 2011. This is in partnership with Amnesty International, as part of its 50th Anniversary. The Journal of Arts and Communities seeks to provide a critical examination of the practices known as community or participatory arts, encompassing work which incorporates active creative collaboration between artists and people in a range of communities of place and interest.

The Journal will take a cross-artform and interdisciplinary approach, seeking to include work originating in performance, visual arts and media, writing, multimedia and collaboration involving digital technology and associated forms.

The Journal seeks original researched articles, case studies, reports of projects in progress, particularly from practitioners and research students as well as book reviews, conference reviews and reports. Articles submitted should generally be 5-6000 words long. Case studies and project reports from practitioners should be no more than 4000 words long and do not have to be extensively referenced. Conference proceedings and other reports should be up to 1,000 words long and include both a description and a critical analysis.

For more information, click here or for general enquiries contact Stephanie Knight, Associate Editor, Journal of Arts & Communities on email: stephaniejaneknight@googlemail.com