[Commlist] CFP: Special issue on Transnational Repression and Social Movements

Call for Papers for a special issue of the online academic journal 
**Interface: a journal for and about social movements**. Special issue: 
Transnational Repression and Social Movements.

Kindly visit https://www.interfacejournal.net/ 
<https://www.interfacejournal.net/> for the complete call.

In an era of global connectivity and rising authoritarianism, 
governments increasingly target exiled activists, journalists, and 
dissidents abroad. From assassinations and deportations to digital 
harassment and family intimidation, transnational repression (TR) has 
become a defining challenge for global activism.

This special issue invites contributions exploring the forms, causes, 
and consequences of TR and the creative strategies of resistance it 
provokes. We welcome empirical, theoretical, historical, and 
methodological studies, as well as regional case analyses, toolkits, and 
movement-led reflections on concerns not limited to:

1. How do movement activists protect and adapt themselves from 
cross-border action?

2. The complicity of liberal democracies in TR, South-South dynamics, 
and regional hegemonies?

3. The role of media, technology, and surveillance in shaping TR?

4. New conceptual frameworks for understanding TR and social movement?

We particularly encourage emerging scholars to submit their work, and 
have also made it safer for scholars at risk to submit manuscripts 
anonymously.

Communication and Media Studies scholars are welcome.

All contributions should go to the appropriate regional editors listed 
here 
https://www.interfacejournal.net/who-we-are/current-publications-by-interface-editors/ 
<https://www.interfacejournal.net/who-we-are/current-publications-by-interface-editors/>. 
Anonymous contributors are requested to view the complete call. We 
encourage authors to submit a 250 to 500-word abstract to help us 
engender a coherent conversation between the various contributions. For 
non-standard academic contributions (interviews, audio-files, toolkits, 
literary writings, activist notes, etc), we recommend you provide us 
with a short description of the content and form of your submission. 
This is not mandatory for your submission to be accepted, but it will 
also help you prepare your submission.

Key Deadlines:

  * Abstract and descriptions of submissions: January 30th, 2026
  * Full submissions: March 30th, 2026
  * Review and production process until publication: October/November 2026

There is no submission or article processing fee.








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