Call for papers for volume 8, number 1, year 2023
In order to encourage the academic production in the State Sciences intellectual field, the Editorial Board of REVICE makes public this call for papers, regarding the composition of the dossier of volume 8, number 1, year 2023. The theme of this issue’s dossier will be STATE SCIENCES: MEANINGS AND DESTINATIONS.
The reason for the existence of the State Sciences Journal goes beyond being a quality scientific journal. As a result of the commitment of the students of the Bachelor of State Sciences, the REVICE, since its creation in 2016, accomplishes three goals that are inherent to its formation. The first of these is to develop itself as a journal of high academic quality, the second is to be a space of interdisciplinary knowledge for the study of State Sciences and its correlated areas and the third — equally important — is to be an academic locus for undergraduates and Bachelors in State Sciences to publish their research on this ancient and autonomous field of knowledge.
The Bachelor of State Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais was an achievement provided by the Program to Support Plans for Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities (2007) that proposed the creation of a group of new courses, focused on innovation, which integrated the competence installed with unprecedented formative trajectories. Thus, the course is inventive as it proposes to think the phenomenon of power macrophilosophically. Hyperspecialization, very characteristic of the XIX and XX centuries, represented a problem for philosophy and sciences as a whole by providing a technical exaggeration that, despite its success in producing a thunderous volume of information, was also not able to formulate comprehensive answers to the problems of humanity and especially the humanities. Therefore, it is urgent to recover macro questions for public, cosmic and critical use of reason. The course, therefore, intended to reconcile the technical and philosophical in an interdisciplinary way and to make this possible, the pedagogical project allowed the students, upon reaching the fifth period of graduation, to choose between two academic paths: the formation in Democracy and Social Governance or in Democratic State and Contemporaneity.
In fact, to make the course a space for debate for a branch of autonomous and new knowledge, it was necessary to think of an object and a method of study of its own. Thus, its object of study is the State itself, not only as an idea or only the State that manifests itself in effectiveness, but the state thought of in the whole, the historical-cultural State: the idea manifests in history. And to think about this State, the transversal method is the only one capable of interconnecting the political, the juridical and the social inter and cross-disciplinarly by the phenomenon of power. Political science, legal science, and social science are parts of the study of State Sciences, but these are not limited to those. The interdisciplinary study of these sciences thinking of the State as its object is what produces the completely unprecedented, autonomous and revolutionary richness of the State Sciences.
In its first edition, REVICE proposed to think about State Sciences: Trajectories and Perspectives. In this Volume 8, Number 1, in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the Bachelor of State Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the 7th anniversary of the Journal of State Sciences, the theme of the dossier of this edition will be STATE SCIENCES: MEANINGS AND DESTINATIONS.
The richness desired by the new dossier of the Journal of State Sciences covers questions such as: what are the State Sciences? How to think the State interdisciplinarly? How can the fields of politics, law and society be studied by the transversal method? How to promote a knowledge that goes from micro to macro? What are the macro questions essential to this field? What are the possible macro responses at the moment? How to overcome the limits of hyperspecialization? What are the contemporary challenges of State Sciences? What is the State and what is its role? How to think about the world through the Philosophy of the State? What meanings and destinies have the State Sciences taken or should take in contemporary times?
This number therefore includes papers on: State Science; Interdisciplinarity; Transdisciplinarity; University; Legal Education; Rule of Law [Rechstaat]; Nation; Culture; Power; Political Ethics; State Theory; Comparative State Theory; State Philosophy; Cultural Anthropology of the State; Citizenship(s); Social Governance; Public Administration Theory; Social Organisations; Third Sector Management; History of the State; External Control; Political Institutions; Democracy; Development(s); State Economic Planning; International Protection of Human Rights; Diplomacy; Strategic Studies, as well as reflections on the Bachelor of State Science itself.
I - The issue of REVICE will follow a rolling publishing process.
II – REVICE will receive works for the present dossier from the date of its publication up until April 16th, 2023.
III - Works whose evaluation and correction process is not completed by Juno 30th, 2023, will be published in the following issues of REVICE.
IV - All REVICE's submission policies, as well as its editorial policies, can be found on its official website.
V – Only articles, essays, reviews, unpublished translations, and historical memoirs will be accepted.
VI – Free-themed works continue to be accepted by REVICE.
Belo Horizonte, January 16th, 2022.
Lucas Antônio Nogueira Rodrigues
Editor-In-Chief
João Pedro Braga de Carvalho
Deputy Editor-In-Chief
