A Peer-Reviewing Journal
Contributions to Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge pass through a rigorous selective process with respect to their fit, relevance, coherence of argument, and innovativeness in consideration of the scope, nature, and intended purpose of the journal. The journal adheres to the peer-reviewing principle for advancing scholarship, but aims to design and build new scholarly avenues to meet this requirement—seeking mechanisms that foster openness of inquiry and evaluation; mechanisms that invite constructive judgments subject to free, open, and mutually interactive, not blinded and one-sided, peer reviewing practices; mechanisms that can be employed as widely and dynamically as possible among specialist and interested scholars in the field who value the need for the proliferation of new, critical, and innovative personal and global insights and transformations.
To meet the highest standards of scholarship, liberatory editorial practices need to transition from static peer reviewed to dynamic peer reviewing models that de-couple publication from defective pre-publication peer review requirements, and engage in alternative peer review practices that remain open to all those wishing to review a manuscript at any time in the post-publication phase—encouraging expanded and deepening exchanges among scholars, authors and readers alike. They need to invite critical thinking about prevailing and dominant paradigms and inflame creative spirits to forge new scholarly horizons and intellectual landscapes. And they need to embrace the subaltern voices in the academia and beyond, voices of those who have been deprived of cultivating their sociological imaginations through formal scholarly publishing avenues.
Human Architecture warmly invites contributors and readers to peer review the articles herein and to openly share their critical and constructive insights with one another in the future chronicles of this journal. (For further elaboration of the journal's perspective and policy regarding peer reviewing, click here.)
Submission
and Subscription Information
Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (ISSN # 1540-5699) is published by OKCIR: the Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics) (www.okcir.com, info@okcir.com) and printed by the Okcir Press, an imprint of Ahead Publishing House (APH), located at 6 Hobbs Road, Medford, MA, 02155, U.S.A., tel/fax: 781.874.1448. Copyright © by Ahead Publishing House, 2002-6. All rights reserved. Human Architecture is indexed in CSA Illumina’s Sociological Abstracts® and included in EBSCO’s SocINDEX with Full-Text®. The journal is printed in both soft cover and online (pdf) formats.
Submissions: Human Architecture publishes both submitted and invited manuscripts as well as the working papers of OKCIR: the Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science—an independent research and educational project. Contributors extend permission to Human Architecture for the publication of their work in the journal. They retain copyrights to their work and may publish them elsewhere. If the submitted manuscript has been published elsewhere before, written permission from both the author(s) and publication(s) where it earlier appeared should accompany submission to Human Architecture.
Editorial Decisions: Human Architecture adheres to the peer reviewing principle for advancing scholarship—seeking innovative ways to meet the need in favor of liberatory scholarly practices most conducive to the aim and purpose of the journal. Selection of papers from submitted or invited manuscripts are based on their substantive relevance and the coherence and innovativeness of their argument in consideration of the perspective of the journal and the mission of OKCIR. Views expressed in the journal by contributors are those of their authors and may not necessarily coincide with one another, or with the views of the editor, members of the Editorial Advisory Board, or the institutions with which any of the above are affiliated. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of factual, bibliographic, and referential materials used in their own articles, and for obtaining permissions for using copyrighted material in their manuscripts. Methodological, theoretical, historical, empirical, practical, as well as literary and artistic contributions relevant to the mission of the journal are all encouraged. The primary language used is English, but material in other languages may be included if relevant to the purpose of the journal.
What to Submit:
All manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format. They should
preferably be double-spaced in Times 12 typeface., with 1 inch margins
all around. In general, please follow a consistent bibliographic and
citation style throughout the manuscript, following the ASA (American
Sociological Association), MLA, or the University of Chicago style guides.
Where to Submit:
The Editor, Human Architecture, Okcir Press, 6 Hobbs Road,
Medford, MA, 02155, U.S.A., tel/fax: 781.874.1448, e-mail: mohammad.tamdgidi@umb.edu.
Subscriptions: Human Architecture is a quarterly publication, variously published in single or double-issues formats, all produced and published concurrently at the end of every Summer. Individual and institutional rates are $15 and $30 for single issues, and $30 and $60 for double issues respectively. Individual and institutional subscription rates per year are $60 and $120 respectively. Back issues or additional copies of the journal are available upon request at the same per single issue rates as indicated above. Rates include domestic shipping and sales tax, where applicable. For international or bulk orders please inquire for special rates & shipping charges. Make checks payable in U.S. dollars to Ahead Publishing House, and send payments to the Ahead Publishing House, 6 Hobbs Road, Medford, MA, 02155, U.S.A. Contributors each receive one free copy of the issue in which their articles appear. Rates are subjected to change without notice.
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