OPEN CALL: Shifting Centres - Searching for Companions via Errant Journal

Via: Errant Journal
Deadline proposals: 14 September, middernacht CET 2025
Deadline contributions: 5 January 2026
Meer info: errantjournal.org

The ninth issue of Errant Journal is dedicated to decentralising Europe in colonial discourse by exploring transregional possibilities for anti-imperial companionships. The issue starts by thinking of the regions that have experienced Russian Imperial aggression—including settler colonialism, resource extraction, displacements, genocides, physical, linguistic, and cultural violence—from the sixteenth century to the invasion of Ukraine, from Europe to North America. With this issue we want to research how to make connections across times and geographies, share stories of pain and deviance, and how these connections can strengthen anti-colonial resistance.

This issue is guest-edited by Katia Krupennikova. As it aims to foster connections, contributors will be invited to engage with one another’s research through online meetings as part of the editorial process. These efforts will form the basis for broader networks and culminate in a series of public online events and presentations late autumn 2025 at De Appel Arts Center in Amsterdam. For these activities additional remuneration will be made available.

Proposal:
Because it is Errant´s aim to give form to a pluriversal world, we resolutely reject the idea of a universal way of knowing emanating from a neutral or ‘universal’ perspective. Instead, we look for contributions that are concretely situated, personal, specific, etc. and from all possible backgrounds, disciplines, and/or embodied knowledges. We also look for and welcome contributions that come from a different epistemological knowledge or language that the editors of Errant do not understand. Most of Errant consists of essays, but we also welcome other (experimental) forms that can be made suitable for the format of a publication.

Contributors publishing new material especially created for this issue of Errant receive a fee of € 500,- incl. VAT per contribution upon acceptance and publication. The editor is free to reject contributions after they have been written if they do not fit the editorial framework, deviate significantly from what was discussed/agreed upon, or if the quality is considered sub-par.