Sections

Papeles de Identidad is structured different sections: 

Research articles

The main section of Papeles de Identidad collects complete and developed original research papers, both theoretical and empirical. The journal is permanently open to receive texts for this section. The maximum length of the texts submitted is 8,000 words, including footnotes, titles, abstracts, and keywords. Articles will be reviewed using the double-blind system.

 

Critical papers

It collects texts that comment and informe on different materials produced in any format (books, audiovisuals, film fiction, blogs, etc.) that are related to the journal's focus and scope. Their maximum length is 2,500 words. Texts must indicate the title of the work commented, the author, the year and, if applicable, the publisher or production company. The text should include the name, institutional affiliation and e-mail address of the author of the critique, as well as, if available, the links that allow access to part or to the whole commented material. The proposal is subject to evaluation by the Papeles de Identidad editorial committee and its advisors in the field. Submissions are open until two months before the closing date of the corresponding edition (end of December and end of June). A maximum of four "Critical Papers" will be published per issue and, if any, preferably associated with the monographic theme.

 

Fundamentals

This section gathers texts that are especially significant for the development of the theoretical debate in Papeles de Identidad areas of interest. They are published texts in other venues, which are not evaluated for publication in the journal, but which incorporate key elements of reflection on the topics’ addressed in the issue. The reception of proposals is permanently open. If the texts do not arrive due to a request from the editorial team, they must be accompanied by a letter explaining the interest in their publication and, in the case of previously published texts, the appropriate permissions for their translation and/or republication must be included.

 

Inherited Identity

It includes didactic, critical, problematizing articles that deal predominantly with: 1) concepts that question the issue of identity; or 2) authors who, in their work, have contributed stimulating reflections on identity, addressing it head-on, or taking a few detours through its different manifestations (race, nationality, gender, generation, community, class, etc.); or 3) 1 and 2 together. The section is nourished by unpublished texts, preferably short (between 4,000 and 5,000 words). Prior to their publication, the works will be read and discussed by the editors of the section and by specialists in the specially convened topics.

 

Reaction

Some of the texts in this journal elicit reactions from readers and responses from authors, sparking debate. Other texts evaluate works in a way that goes beyond mere judgement and scoring. These texts discuss, converse about, anger, admire and enrich what they judge. There are moments when researchers react to what they see and write about it. Many of these reactions occur through channels that would normally remain private. However, we believe that many of these reactions should be published, despite the rawness of texts written in a state of surprise, astonishment, amazement or anger. Or because of it. "Reaction" is the space that Papeles de Identidad provides for this to happen.

 

Research articles can be gathered in monographic issues or in small topics.

Monographic issues. Papeles de Identidad accepts proposals for monographic issues or calls for the submission of articles on a topic of interest and entrusts its edition to a guest editor. In the case of wanting to propose an issue, the editors must send a reasoned proposal to the journal’s e-mail address (papeles@kontulab.eus), justifying the interest of the proposal, its affinity with the journal’s focus and scope and, if applicable, the texts and authors that could make up the bulk of the issue. If the proposal is approved, the call for papers will be published on the journal’s website at least one year prior to the publication of the issue. All papers submitted must adhere to the formal characteristics of research articles and will receive the same treatment as research articles (double-blind review). The reception of proposals is open throughout the year, although there is a period of 18 to 24 months between the approval of the proposal and its possible publication.

 

The Small Topic section gathers agile, short, intuitive texts, social sciences but not only. They are well-founded but not tedious, rigorous but not heavy. It dialogues with the most structuring elements of social life without forgetting the present, it works from reflection and deep knowledge of the disciplines of those who write, their calms, but conversing with that thing called “current affairs”, which demands speed. It gathers, then, academic texts but not only quotable items: they say things. The proposal of a small topic should be sent to the journal's e-mail address (papeles@kontulab.eus), justifying the proposal, its affinity with the journal and the papers/authors that could participate. Papers must be short (between 4,000 and 5,000 words) without a priori closed formats, they are evaluated but not judged (open peer review). The reception of proposals is open throughout the year, although there is a period of 12 to 18 months between the approval of the proposal and its possible publication.