CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers · Interdisciplinary Journal of Oral History

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Oral History invites submissions of proposals for thematic dossiers and for the Miscellany and Historiographical Debate sections.

Profile and scope

The journal is being launched to provide continuity — and renewed impetus — to research in oral history. Our aim is to consolidate an interdisciplinary space in which orality, memory and testimony constitute the empirical core, bringing into dialogue history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, social psychology and cultural studies.

Preferred lines of research:

● Experiences, memories and identities (local/national/transnational scales).
● Methodological innovation: interview design and ethics, narrative and discourse analysis, prosody and performativity; audiovisual ethnography; cartographies and networks.
● Subaltern voices, decolonial approaches, gender and sexualities, health and the medical humanities, education and memory studies, intangible cultural heritage (songs, narratives, rituals), war/post-conflict memories, trauma and intergenerational transmission, rurality and countryside/city relations, etc.
● Educational innovation projects based on orality in Spain and from a comparative perspective.

We accept submissions in Spanish, Catalan/Valencian, Basque, Galician and Portuguese (with trilingual abstracts in accordance with the editorial guidelines).

Thematic dossier proposals

Contents: 4–7 original articles centred on a common issue; comparative approaches, institutional and international diversity, and the participation of women authors will be especially valued.

Submission (1 document, 800–1,200 words):
● Dossier title and rationale (debates, contribution, methodological originality).
● Provisional table of contents (titles and authors) and, optionally, a mixed CFP format (commissioned articles + open call).
● For each article, a 150–200 word abstract including objectives, sources and methodology.

Approval of the dossier does not imply automatic acceptance of the articles: each manuscript will be externally reviewed.

Miscellany section

Individual research articles, case studies, methodological contributions or technical innovation pieces on the analysis and archiving of oral sources.

Suggested length: 7,000–11,000 words (including notes, tables and images).

Submissions should include: framework, method, corpus, results and discussion; as well as an ethics and data section (consent, anonymisation, preservation).

Historiographical Debate section

Critical essays, state-of-the-art reviews and methodological controversies related to oral history (e.g. disciplinary status, reflexivity, performativity, archive, digital preservation, artificial intelligence and orality).

Suggested length: 4,500–6,000 words.

Structure: map of the debate, critical review of the literature (last decade), proposal/research agenda.