Call for papers for volume 9, issue 2, year 2024
In order to encourage academic production in the field of State Sciences, the Editorial Board of the Journal of State Sciences (REVICE) makes public this call, regarding the composition of the dossier of volume 9, number 2, year 2024. The theme of this issue's dossier will be: "CITIZENSHIP DILEMMAS: DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES".
It is said that democracy is the regime of the power of the people. However, how to understand democracy without first defining what is power , who are the people and what is their role in citizenship?
In 2024 we will complete 60 years since the beginning of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship. After more than 20 years of restrictions on freedoms and a total break with what we could understand as "People's Power", we have achieved redemocratization. The Rule of Law is resurrected with the 1988 Constitution and we once again have hope for freedom. However, even after 200 years of brazilian constitutional history, today we live safely with our democracy?
Democracies around the world are faced with a difficult task: to remain aligned with democratic principles, even facing numerous attempts to make them deficient. In addition, reflecting on this theme seems especially opportune for the year 2024, when a series of electoral processes have taken place or will still take place in several important political communities around the globe, among which we highlight: Brazil, Russia, France, the United States, Venezuela, Iran, the United Kingdom, Mexico, India, South Africa, and the European Union. Therefore, it is at this moment — when the political dispute is once again around with greater intensity — that we need to reflect on Democratic States and their challenges.
It should be recognized, however, that popular representation, although fundamental, does not exhaust in itself the problems inherent to democratic life. In this vein, we consider it important to also problematize democracy from another equally fundamental milestone of the Rule of Law: citizenship. Now, citizenship implies a particular bond between subjects and their political communities, marked by duties and rights. The former are repeatedly forgotten, when not reduced to the exercise of the vote and the payment of taxes, and as far as the seconds implies the ownership of fundamental rights in their multiple dimensions — thus making it possible to think about the phenomenon of citizenship from the civil, political, social, economic or cultural perspectives. In addition, citizenship delimits the group of those who can legitimately take part in the conduct of collective life, that is, those who can publicly express their ideas and convictions, who can be part of political parties and who can vote and be voted for. Outside of citizenship, therefore, we cannot speak of democratic participation; both presuppose one another.
Democracy is, therefore, a space for deliberation and project, where a people self-determines and reflects on what it wants to be in the future. Categories such as coherence and representation therefore accompany the entire history of democracy and citizenship. Who is the representative? Who is represented? What are the limits of those who govern and the rights and duties of the governed? How to reconcile political representation and participation? These are latent dilemmas of the democratic tradition, but also an invitation to reflect on the future. After all, how to build an effectively full democracy with an engaged citizenry? Is our current model of democracy the end of history? What will the citizenship of tomorrow be like?
All of this leads us to think about the following questions: how to think about citizen action beyond the right to vote? How can political representation be improved? How does the democratization of political power result in a more plural and dynamic social environment? How does political polarization affect the quality of popular representation? How is the crisis of democracy around the world linked to a crisis of citizenship? Can the awakening of authoritarian movements around the world be qualified as a form of political and social strategy? What is the role of universities in the creation and dissemination of approaches and perspectives to strengthen democratic citizenship? How can we think about the construction and evolution of Brazilian citizenship? To what extent do technological innovations influence, negatively and positively, the exercise of citizenship? How to deal with the growing spread of segregationist discourses? What is the role of civil society organizations in promoting representativeness and citizenship? How do the different regimes of political government favor or disfavor democracy and citizenship? What is the duty of the State? What is the duty of the citizen? Who are the people? What lessons can we draw from the history of our democracy and the other peoples of the world? What do the 2024 elections tell us about contemporary democracies and citizen action?
This issue therefore includes works on: Democracy; Democratic Crisis; Government Project; State Project; Systems and Regimes of Government; Political freedoms; Political Citizenship; Social and Economic Citizenship; Cultural Citizenship; Public Policies; Constitution; Human rights; Inequality; Social exclusion; Sub-citizenship; Political Participation; Coalition Policy; Polarization; Radicalization of political groups; Influences of social networks on politics; Disinformation; Fake News; Psychopolitics; Citizen Participation; Social Movements; Elections; Populism; Public opinion; Political History; Dictatorship; Coup; Militarism; AI-5; Nationalism; Post-Politics; Social Governance; Cosmopolitanism and Self-determination of peoples.
I - The publication of REVICE will take place in a continuous flow.
II – REVICE will receive papers for the present dossier from the date of its publication until September 10 , 2024.
III - Papers whose evaluation and correction process is not completed by December 31, 2024 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 – Papers with free themes continue to be accepted by REVICE.
Belo Horizonte, July 11, 2024.
Theo Augusto Apolinário Moreira Fonseca
Editor-in-Chief of REVICE
Lucas Antônio Nogueira Rodrigues
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of REVICE
