Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 15th Nov 2021
- Melbourne > North Melbourne
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The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public educational project. We interrogate colonial relations and their consequences in the past, present and future in Australia and globally. We build collaborations, projects, and knowledge in support of new forms of sustainable coexistence.
We operate a lively hub where scholars, students, artists, activists and citizens come together to share practically engaged ideas for creating a better world. Through creative research, performance, and discussions we aim to cultivate new relationships of shared responsibility and care—across communities and for the places we inhabit.
A cluster of issues make our vision for coexistence through critical and creative practice compelling and also indicate the unique contribution to be made by an organisation that highlights attention to colonial legacies as vital to any future focused community building exercise. These include:
We aim to support projects that intervene in public debate; generate discussions that can change minds; and produce practically grounded ideas for ethical and just relationships geared towards a better future.
The Institute is home to the internationally renowned scholarly journal, Postcolonial Studies.
Postcolonial Studies is the flagship scholarly journal of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne. Established in 1996 and published by Taylor and Francis, the journal has a strong international reputation and is edited by a diversely located global board. It is published four times a year.
We are seeking an experienced, well organised, and energetic Managing Editor to oversee the editorial administration and workflows associated with ensuring high quality production and timely publication of the journal. The Managing Editor must have the necessary expertise and confidence to desk reject submissions that fall outside of the journal’s editorial scope (Postcolonial Studies currently receives more than 150 submissions per year, 80% of which are rejected, as well as proposals for special issues); liaise directly with authors, editors, guest editors, reviewers, publishers; and be responsible for collating and efficiently delivering final copy into the publishing system.
The Managing Editor works closely with the journal’s co-editors and reviews editor who are currently located in Australia, India and the UK, and is supported by the journal’s convening editor(s).
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For more information about this position contact Melinda Hinkson, Director of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and Convening Editor of Postcolonial Studies, [email protected] using the subject line: Managing Editor, Postcolonial Studies enquiry via EthicalJobs.
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