Special issue information
Special Issues
Submitting a Special Issue
Area Development and Policy welcomes proposals for special issues that:
- show a close fit with the journal’s aims and scope;
- contribute significantly to past and present debates and research on the development of the Global South;
- are sufficiently diverse yet coherent and preferably cover a number of continental regions of the world.
Proposals are reviewed against these criteria by Editors and may be subject to revision before acceptance. Accepted proposals should all involve a Call for Papers evaluated by the Special Issue Editors and a group of Journal Editors. After an assessment of submitted abstracts and, if they exist pre-selected abstracts/papers, authors will be invited to submit. All submitted papers are subject to peer review by the Journal Editors in consultation with the Special Issue Editors.
If you would like to propose a special issue for publication in the journal, please complete the
information sheet and submit it according to the instructions.
If you would like to discuss your proposal before submitting the form, please contact the Editor in Chief Mick Dunford at [email protected].
Calls for papers
If you would like to be part of a forthcoming special issue, please see the list of announcements for current special issue calls for papers on the RSA homepage .
