Overview
Societal security has emerged as a new and, at times, highly contested concept of political and interdisciplinary research. At its core, it seeks to determine and understand the ability of societies to endure against a backdrop of changing conditions and threats. In so doing, societal security research merges together considerations on risk and security from economic, political, ecological, social, legal, natural science, technological, and engineering perspectives.
With an emphasis on the interdisciplinary efforts of all the humanities and technological sciences, the European Journal for Security Research provides a comprehensive platform to discuss a wide-range of security research topics, such as the inability of new security technologies to deliver definitive solutions, the phenomena of increased securitization, the epistemological, political, legal, and media framing of “safety production”, interdisciplinary development and optimization processes, and the disruptive potential of new technologies. By publishing wholly original articles from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the European Journal for Security Research offers a uniquely European forum for debate on social security research developments and how they are transforming our world.
We welcome articles from any relevant disciplinary approach. Articles for consideration should be lodged electronically via https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejsr. As a rule, they should not exceed 8,500 words.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Stefan Kaufmann
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Call for Abstracts: Perpetual crisis or continual risk? Theory at the intersection of multiple extremes
Guest editors:
Kristin S. Scharffscher, University of Stavanger, Norway
Tjorven Harmsen, University of Freiburg, GermanyWhile both risk and crisis are interdisciplinary areas of research, the theoretical perspective of the Special Issue of EJSR is predominantly anchored in sociology and the social sciences. We invite scholars from these disciplines and beyond to provide conceptual insights and updated integrated knowledge on risk and crisis in relation to theoretical paradigms as well as to policy- and decision-making.
Deadlines:
- Abstract submission until August 30th 2024: max. 300 words, to be sent to kristin.s.scharffscher@uis.no and tjorven.harmsen@css.uni-freiburg.de
- Submission of invited full article until January 31st 2025: EJSR author guidelines apply; articles to be submitted via the EJSR online submission system
- Planned time of Special Issue publication: late 2025
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Special Issue Call for Papers: New Directions in the Evaluation of Civil Protection Exercises
This Special Issue addresses the connex between exercise, evaluation, and planning. Interested researchers are invited to submit their full articles (8,000 words) by 31st August 2023.
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- 2365-1695
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- 2365-0931
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