JOURNAL OF URBAN RESEARCH
Call for Papers
Urban Studies is constituting a broad and significant, interdisciplinary research area which is essential to understand the current urban condition of today. The world is facing a situation that it has never faced before. The majority of the human settlements in the world is under a rapid urbanization process that contain complex and variant economical, sociological, architectural and political inputs. Therefore urban studies in all scales and localities hold great importance to contribute to this transformation globally. The interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies have never been so important than it is today because of the multiple impacts of events. Post-Fordist, post-colonial, post-industrial, post-war transformations are just a few of these transitions to trace the spill-over effects.
In Turkey, there is a clear need for a peer-reviewed academic urban studies journal to channel the existing and potential researches. It is also necessary for the accumulation of knowledge in specific areas.There is a growing interest in cross-disciplinary encounters and studies. Konya Metropolitan Municipality and EDAM (Education Counseling and Research Center) have joined forces to initiate a publication in this field.
Journal of Urban Research will be a quarterly peer reviewed academic journal published by Konya Metropolitan Municipality which will focus on built environment, urban living and urban management areas to contribute to the process of promoting new intellectual studies.
Journal of Urban Research as a social science journal in general and as an urban studies platform in particular will feature the articles on the areas of urban sociology, city and regional planning, architecture, urban history, political science, and public management. The interest areas of the journal will be the concepts which are directly relevant with problems of cities like urban planning, architecture, human settlements, sociology, criminology and etc. as well as the phenomenon of globalization, modernization, traditions, democracy, civil society, public sphere, private sphere, everyday life and consumption cultures, life styles, mass housing, slum hosing, and ghettoization. The journal will feature high-qualified interdisciplinary articles from the areas of sociology, psychology, health, anthropology, law, political science, international relations, economics, art history, archeology, literature and communication. Journal of Urban Research is open to international articles as well as the articles from Turkey.
The publication of Journal of Urban Research will be performed by EDAM (Education Counseling and Research Center). EDAM publishes international academic journals in Turkey such as Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, Journal of Civil Society, Journal of Values Education, Human Rights Review, Journal of Content, and Journal of Women Studies.
Editor of Journal of Urban Research
E-Mail: editor@sehirarastir malari.com
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