Passages: A Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies is a new, interdisciplinary journal published by World Heritage Press. The journal seeks to act as a focal point for the burgeoning literature on transnational phenomena and cross-cultural encounters. As a journal of transnational and transcultural studies, Passages regards both terms not as doctrines, principles or namesakes of identifiable schools of thought, but rather as terms that act as place-holders for interconnected dynamics. It regards these social, textual, political, cultural, and economic dynamics as the grounds from which the world of the twenty first century is emerging. At the same time, it is also attentive to their historical genesis, parallels and trajectories.
Passages is committed to the belief that the nation-state has become exhausted as a frame of political, cultural or economic reference. Such an exhaustion manifests itself in the challenges that confront this unit from within its proclaimed boundaries as well as from without. Passages seeks to examine all facets of the contested terrains of transnational and transcultural experiences, movements, ideologies, histories, economies. It is not committed to any program or school of thought. It does, however, encourage interdisciplinary investigation. The journal seeks to connect economic analysis to cultural awareness, political commentary to historical depth, literary analysis to contexts of textual production, and so on.
The journal thus seeks to contribute to moving transnational studies beyond the confines of policy recommendations, narrow economism or grand cultural totalizations. Similarly, it seeks to contribute to moving multiculturalism beyond its current status as a "slogan" with few historical or theoretical frames of presentation. In sum, Passages seeks to examine the role of both transnationalism and cross-cultural knowledge systems in producing social knowledge, memory, facts, histories, and dynamics of coexistence and conflict.
Passages welcomes submissions of scholarly articles, as well as of writings in other formats, such as personal narratives, interviews, survey articles and summaries of material available in foreign languages.
Address before August 5: Send manuscripts and queries
to the editor,
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Dept of Sociology, University of
Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854. Phone (508) 934-4305.
Fax (508) 934-3023. email: bamyehm@woods.uml.edu.
After August 5: Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Editor, New York
University,
The Gallatin School, 715 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-6806,
USA.
Advisory Board of Passages includes:
Houston Baker, Jr., Homi Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Johannes Fabian, Richard Falk, Andre Gunder Frank, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Henry Giroux, J|rgen Habermas, Anthony D. King, Dominick LaCapra, Mary Layoun, Ashis Nandy, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Mark Poster, Amartya Sen, Wolfgang Streeck, Charles Taylor, Immanuel Wallerstein.