Penn Press is excited to celebrate International Open Access Week by highlighting the launch of two new open-access journals: the Journal of Disaster Studies and Pasados.
The Journal of Disaster Studies publishes peer-reviewed work from disaster researchers around the world. The first journal to focus entirely on interdisciplinary disaster studies, the Journal of Disaster Studies looks at how both slow and abrupt disasters have been designated, conceptualized, and politicized. Published biannually, the journal advances interpretive theory, methods, and empirical research that supports disaster prevention and response. It foregrounds articles that examine how disasters are anticipated, experienced, governed, and understood, conceptualizing “disaster” expansively to guide analysis of a wide array of hazards, risks, and disruptions—from earthquakes, industrial operations, and extreme weather, to viral pandemics, climate change, migration, and war.
Pasados: Recovering Histories, Imagining Latinidad provides peer-reviewed content with a focus on Latinx cultural pasts. The biannual publication covers methodological and theoretical studies of Latinx archives, textual artifacts, and histories. Researchers, students, teachers, and community partners alike will find essays in the fields of critical archive studies, history, and literary criticism, as well as translations of recovered materials, and pedagogical models for classroom teaching. The journal is an initiative of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”), an international program to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States.
These journals join the list of five Diamond (free to the author and reader) open-access journals published by Penn Press. Additional titles include Foucault Studies, Manuscript Studies, and Observational Studies.