Call for Papers – No. 1, Globalities. A Journal of Global History
Globalities is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the study of global history, with a particular focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The journal promotes critical, interdisciplinary, and decentered approaches to global history, encouraging scholarship that explores historical entanglements, circulations, and asymmetries through transnational and comparative lenses.
For more information about the journal Globalities, please visit: https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/GH/index
For its first issue, Globalities invites contributions that engage with the making and unmaking of global connections in all their complexity. We welcome original research articles, shorter critical interventions, reflections on sources and archives, and reviews of recent publications or digital projects. Particular attention will be given to work that challenges Eurocentric narratives and offers alternative epistemologies and global perspectives.
The core section of the journal will feature peer-reviewed research articles, either submitted individually or as part of a thematic cluster. Articles should be between 15 and 30 pages in length (approximately 5,250 to 10,500 words, based on a standard of 350 words per page). Thematic clusters are composed of 3 to 5 articles and include an editorial introduction of 5 to 10 pages (approx. 1,750 to 3,500 words) by the cluster editors. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: colonialism and decolonization, global capitalism and labor, migration and diasporas, ecological and environmental transformations, scientific and cultural exchanges, transnational media, and global everyday life.
In addition to full-length articles, Globalities hosts the Dialogues & Perspectives section, which offers space for shorter, critical, and often experimental contributions (1 essay: total length 15–20 pages = 5,250–7,000 words or 2 essays: total length 10 pages = 3,500 words). These may include reflections on methodology and theory, interviews, or polemical essays on the politics of global history.
The Archives and Sources section (1 essay: total lenght 10–15 pages = 3,500–5,250 words) is dedicated to essays that critically examine archival practices, source materials, and material culture within a global historical framework.
The journal also publishes a selection of Reviews (3–4 contributions: 1 contribution = 1,300 words), focusing on recent monographs, edited volumes, or digital initiatives relevant to the field.
Finally, Globalities includes two regular columns, Traces and Echoes and Voices from the Edge (10 pages each = 3,500 words), which provide space respectively for reflections on global resonances in the present, and for perspectives from marginal, peripheral, or underrepresented contexts, geographically, politically, or epistemologically).
The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2025. Contributions should be submitted in English.
To propose a contribution, please consult: https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/GH/about/submissions
