Call for articles — Dossier Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice in Latin America (June 2023 edition)(DEADLINE EXTENSION)
1. About the organizers of the dossier
The Observatory of Criminal Law and Indigenous Peoples is and initiative of the National Coordination of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil — APIB) with the objective of fostering the production, systematization and diffusion of information and analyses concerning the interactions between Indigenous peoples and state and non-state criminal justice systems.
Based on existing research and analysis, the Observatory aims to build alliances and coalitions capable of designing and proposing strategies to overcome the systematic violations of Indigenous rights that stem from the functioning of the criminal justice system. It also seeks to and foster the recognition and application of Indigenous legal norms and procedures and to promote the values of diversity and self-determination.
The Observatory was founded in 2021. Its coordination is composed of Indigenous and indigenist lawyers. More information about our mission, organization and activities can be accessed at https://apiboficial.org/observatorio/.
2. Call for papers
Over the course of the previous decade, a growing field of research has revealed that the use of criminal law to investigate, charge and punish Indigenous peoples is systematically pervaded by rights violations. Such processes not only systematically violate the individual rights of those who are being investigated, charged, or punished, but it also curtails their cultural, social, and political rights, and especially those related to freedom of association and expression. Moreover, recent investigations have increasingly demonstrated the link between processes of criminalization and the violation of Indigenous territorial rights, revealing that the former is intimately connected and often stems from or contributes to the latter.
At the same time, political and theoretical debates about the recognition of Indigenous legal systems and their forms of communication and concatenation with state legal systems remains incipient in Brazil, unlike in other countries of Latin America where such debates have advanced significantly. This is especially true in the field of criminal law, where, despite the existence of norms that ensure the recognition of Indigenous institutions — such as the International Labor Organization Convention 169 -, the latter are systematically ignored or cast aside.
With these issues in sight, the Observatory of Criminal Law and Indigenous Peoples opens the present call for articles to integrate the Law and Praxis Dossier on Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Law, edited by Luiz Henrique Eloy Amado, Ana Carolina Alfinito e Caíque Ribeiro Galícia.
The Dossier is open to and seeks to bring together investigations which mobilize a variety theoretical perspectives and methodologies ensuing from legal, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, and that are aligned with one or more of the following themes:
A. Criminal justice system and access to justice: The first theme includes research exploring the interpretation and application of national and international legal norms pertaining to the criminal investigation, prosecution, and penalization of Indigenous peoples. This includes, for instance, empirical research such as analyses of court precedents; reflections about the concept of criminalization, its limits and frontiers; case studies of criminalization of Indigenous peoples and their organizations; investigations about access to the criminal justice system, institutional racism, and hyper punitivism of Indigenous peoples in the state penal system, amongst others.
B. Indigenous justice, legal pluralism and self-determination: This axis includes research on the interface and interactions between state criminal justice systems and indigenous forms of understanding, organizing and practicing justice, and investigations on the experiences and institutions that create, delimit and open up zones of legal autonomy for Indigenous groups in Brazil and in other Latin American countries.
C. Decolonial and intercultural perspectives: Includes research that draws decolonial, anticolonial and intercultural perspectives, theories, and methodologies to investigate the criminalization of Indigenous individuals, groups and organizations. Papers may, for instance, refer to the possibilities of decolonial transformation of criminological practices and understandings pertaining to the criminal persecution of Indigenous peoples; the possibility of anticolonial or decolonial emancipation of Indigenous peoples vis-à-vis criminal justice systems; perspectives for the construction of decolonial and antiracist legal pedagogies and methodologies, among others.
3. Submissions
Article submissions should be sent to the email dossie.observatoriocrim@gmail.com until May 30th 2022, and, in addition to complying with general submission norms for the Direito e Práxis Journal, should present:
· Title and, when applicable, subtitle.
· Name, email, qualification, institutional filiation and ORCID of authors.
· A summary of up to 1,200 words indicating the objectives of the article, its hypothesis, the methods which will be used in developing the investigation, conclusions and expected contributions to the research field;
· A provisional structure of topics, including list of eventual cases, experiences or theoretical proposals that will be analyzed, when applicable.
The editorial committee will receive only one article per author.
Summaries that are accepted for development will receive comments from the organizers. The first version of the full paper is to be submitted by October 2022 and the paper with final revisions should be submitted by March 2023 at the latest to be included in the publication.
We incentivize the submission of contributions by Indigenous researchers and academics, as well as by researchers from different Latin American countries.
4. Timeline
- May 30th, 2022: Deadline for summary submission. DEADLINE EXTENDED: 06/15/2022!!
- July 30th, 2022: Deadline for editors to communicate decisions about received proposals.
- October 30th, 2022: Deadline for submission of complete articles to editors.
- January 15th, 2023: Deadline for editors to send comments to authors.
- March 30th, 2023: Deadline for submission of revised articles by authors.
- June 2023: Publication of dossier.
