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Qualitative Methods in Genealogical Research: New Approaches to Studying Intergenerational Memory
edited by
submission deadline 26 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1825 | Submission Open
Keywords: qualitative research; Fourth Industrial Revolution; memory; genealogy
Names as Heritage: Tracing Family and Community Identity Through Naming
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9903 | Submission Open
Keywords: personal names; genealogy; cultural identity; family; community; African anthroponyms; society; gender; person reference
Ancestral Threads: Ancient DNA and the Weaving of Human History and Migration
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2242 | Submission Open
Keywords: ancient DNA (aDNA); paleogenomics; human migration; kinship; paleopathology; admixture; biocultural interaction
Race, Gender, and the Moral State: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
edited by Canglong Wang
submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2196 | Submission Open
Keywords: race; gender; moral state; intersectionality; moral governance; cross-cultural analysis; global perspectives
Genealogies of Indigenous Knowledge: Intergenerational Transmission and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa
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submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5502 | Submission Open
Keywords: indigenous knowledge; Africa; intergenerational transmission; cultural continuity; sustainable livelihoods; informal economies; environmental stewardship; oral traditions; community-based research; decolonial methodologies
Genealogies of Place: Place (Re)naming and Heritage-Making in the Global East submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 2660 | Submission Open
Keywords: place names; toponymy; cultural heritage; social memory; Global East; post-socialism
Population Pathways: Intergenerational Migration and Settlement Patterns
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submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open
Keywords: settlement geography; family history; genealogy; generational migration
Multiraciality and Social Mobility: Challenges Faced by Racialised Citizenship Across Europe
edited by , Damjan Mandelc and Ana Ješe Perković
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8476 | Submission Open
Keywords: race; ethnicity; multiraciality; social mobility; migration; citizenship; institutional racism; Europe; inclusion; belonging; intersectionality
Transnational Genealogies: The Politics of Space, Migration, and Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
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submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7119 | Submission Open
Keywords: colonial borders; colonial migration; decolonization; diaspora; forced displacement; hybrid identity; politics of space; postcolonial identity; spatial; segregation; transnational genealogies
Narratives of Impact: The Influence of Family Stories on Personal Meaning
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submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3451 | Submission Open
Keywords: family narratives; storytelling; meaning making; family history; genealogy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Family History)
Genealogies of Resilience: Family and Cultural Continuity in Colonial Latin America
edited by Amos Megged
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 2599 | Submission Open
Keywords: Latin American familial patterns and structures; cultural transformations; changing patriarchal norms; migration and instability; Latin American ethnic familial variations; African/mixed bloods familial patterns in Latin America
Narratives of the Unseen: Tracing Conspiracy, Religion, and Popular Culture submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1121 | Submission Open
Keywords: conspiracy theories; religion/spirituality; popular culture; digital culture; media; narrativity; digital folklore; perception; (in)visibility; secrecy
Kinship and Connection: Genealogy and Geography in Indigenous Australia
edited by James Rose and Joel Liddle
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 484 | Submission Open
Keywords: kinship; population health; cultural heritage preservation; social anthropology; history; linguistics; forensic and expert social anthropology; FESA; legal pluralism
Heritage and Memory: Jewish Cultural Narratives in Historical Context
edited by Ilan Fuchs
submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 229 | Submission Open
Keywords: halakhic cultural memory; jurisprudential narratives in jewish tradition; messianic temporality and futurity; exile–redemption ideologies in religious zionism; pedagogies of jewish historical consciousness; digital preservation of jewish textual heritage; archival silences and marginalized jewish histories; reconstruction of post‑war eastern european jewry; collective memory and jewish political theology; mythmaking and narrative transmission in jewish communities; heritage formation across migration and displacement; legal memory and identity formation; cultural production in contemporary jewish movements; historiography of sectarian and minoritarian traditions
Decolonizing East African Genealogies of Power
edited by and Eyob Balcha Gebremariam
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 24870 | Submission Open
Keywords: East Africa; decolonization; indigenous; nature; coloniality; ethnicism; nationalism; geopolitics; Indian Ocean; security
Exploring Gender Roles and Identities in African Rituals and Culture
edited by Hundzukani Portia Khosa
submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2049 | Submission Open
Keywords: rituals; culture; identities; gender; integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Genealogical Communities: Community History, Myths, Cultures)
Fatherhood, Memory, and Identity
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submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 839 | Submission Open
Keywords: fatherhood; memory; identity
Father Involvement and Family Heritage: A Genealogical Perspective on Parenting and Ethnic Diversity
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submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 385 | Submission Open
Keywords: father involvement; fatherhood; men; genealogy; cross-culture; ethnic diversity
Critical Reflections on the Erosion of African Burial and Mourning Traditions submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open
Keywords: African funerals; death; mourning; community; rituals; religions; philosophy
Beyond Borders: Youth Migration, Inequality, and Social Change
edited by Ninna Nyberg-Sørensen and
submission deadline 1 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 484 | Submission Open
Keywords: youth mobility; youth transitions; youth aspirations; trajectories; uncertainties; border experiences
Race, Family, and Identity: The Impact of Transracial Adoption
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submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5238 | Submission Open
Keywords: transracial; adoption; adoptees; racism; ethnicity; minoritized; identity
The Sacred and the Secular: Race, Gender, and Religion in Historical Context submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3373 | Submission Open
Keywords: race; gender; religion; intersectionality; historical
Kinship, Care, and Coercion: Historical Narratives of Family and Power in U.S. and Global Contexts
edited by Gwendoline Alphonso and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open
Keywords: kinship; family; politics; intimacy and relationality; power and justice; public policy; historical institutionalism; affect and memory; transnationalism; United States; care; coercion
Genealogies of Youth Narratives: Race, Voice, and Education in Intergenerational Perspective
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submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open
Keywords: genealogy; youth; intergenerational; pedagogy; urban education; race; ethnicity; culturally relevant pedagogy; heritage; community; youth agency; dispositions; identity
Language, Education, and Genealogy: Heritage Language Maintenance in Families, Communities, and Schools
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submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3611 | Submission Open
Keywords: heritage language maintenance; family language practices; community language schools; multilingual education; plurilingual pedagogies; intergenerational language transmission; language policy frameworks
Honouring Ancestral Connections: Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Cultural Identity
edited by Leonie Pihama, and Mera Penehira
submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1097 | Submission Open
Keywords: indigenous identity; ancestral connection; indigenous relationality; cultural connections to land; indigenous language and knowledge
Roots and Routes: African American Narratives, Folklore, and Cultural Memory
edited by
submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 675 | Submission Open
Keywords: folklore; history; past; stories; narrative
Colonial Mentalities and Family Histories: Documenting Intergenerational Impacts
edited by
submission deadline 30 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 493 | Submission Open
Keywords: colonization; family; violence; war; mentalities
Tracing the Roots of Critical Policy: Race, Education, and Social Justice
edited by Brittany A. Aronson, , and Hannah Stohry
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1344 | Submission Open
Keywords: genealogy (critical method); critical race theory (CRT); education policy; race-conscious education
Critical Theories and the Future of Child and Youth Empowerment: A Genealogical Perspective
edited by , Shemine Gulamhusein and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 914 | Submission Open
Keywords: critical youth empowerment; power and agency; decoloniality; racialized; migration; activism; voice; cognitive justice; participatory methodologies
Reclaiming Kinship: Decolonizing Indigenous Child and Family Wellbeing
edited by Cary Waubanascum Hawpetoss and Meenakshi Richardson
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 470 | Submission Open
Keywords: Indigenous kinship; Indigenous family wellbeing; Indigenous child wellbeing; Indigenous sovereignty; Indigenous child welfare; decolonizing child welfare; culturally grounded child welfare; decolonization; reclamation
Identity and Nationhood: Unraveling the Narratives That Define Us
edited by Muchativugwa Hove and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open
Keywords: representation; nation and narration; identity and identities; postcolonial state; architectures of identity; migration; Southern Africa; dividends of democracy; precarity; narrative and discursive spaces
Perspectives on Global Diasporas: Ethnic Return Migration to the Ancestral Homeland
edited by Takeyuki Tsuda
submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 1022 | Submission Open
Keywords: diasporas; ethnic return migration; unskilled and skilled migration; homeland; ethnic and national identity; discrimination and racism; generation; socioeconomic mobility; transnationalism
Migration, Integration, and Social Justice
edited by Cátia Moreira de Carvalho
submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 619 | Submission Open
Keywords: migration; integration; social justice; media narratives; migration and integration policies; conflict dynamics; refugees; politicisation of mobility
The Intergenerational Archive: Political Narratives and Family Histories in the Global South
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submission deadline 28 Feb 2027 | Viewed by 232 | Submission Open
Keywords: collective archive; political narratives; family histories; kinship; oral histories; bodily memories; coloniality of the document; Global South; decolonizing the archive; state violence
Gendered-(Anti)Blackness: Understanding Black Fatherhood, Race, Gender & Resistance
edited by and David Pate
submission deadline 1 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open
Keywords: black men; black fatherhood; black family; antiblackness
Youth and Everyday Multiculturalism: Negotiating Identity, Community, and Transcultural Notions of Social Justice
edited by Lorne Foster and Naomi Couto
submission deadline 15 Mar 2027 | Viewed by 537 | Submission Open
Keywords: everyday multiculturalism; digital communication platforms; digital literacy; transcultural identities; grassroots social justice
Decolonial Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Religion
edited by and Ngcobo Siwakhile
submission deadline 30 Jun 2027 | Viewed by 926 | Submission Open
Keywords: decoloniality; race; gender; sexuality; religion; intersectionality
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