Decolonising Trauma and Care: Inequality, Healing and Institutional Practice in the Global South
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Call for Papers
Decolonising Trauma and Care: Inequality, Healing and Institutional Practice in the Global South
Journal: South African Review of Sociology
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Abstract Deadline: 24 July 2026
Manuscript Deadline: 04 December 2026
About the Special Issue
The South African Review of Sociology invites submissions for its Special Issue on "Decolonising Trauma and Care: Inequality, Healing and Institutional Practice in the Global South."
This Special Issue explores how trauma is socially and historically produced across the Global South through colonialism, structural inequality, violence, dispossession, exclusion, and institutional neglect. It also highlights diverse community-based, indigenous, and institutional approaches to healing, resilience, and social repair that challenge dominant Euro-American understandings of trauma.
Bringing together perspectives from sociology, decolonial theory, psychosocial studies, and critical social sciences, the issue seeks theoretical, empirical, methodological, and policy-oriented research examining trauma, care, healing, and institutional transformation in Global South contexts. The collection focuses on three key domains: therapeutic practice, community-based healing, and institutional governance.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Clinical sociologies of trauma in contexts of inequality and exclusion
Structural violence, historical injustice, and the social production of trauma
Trauma, inequality, and institutional power
Decolonial approaches to healing and psychosocial care
Community resilience, mutual aid, and collective healing
Indigenous and culturally embedded care practices
Institutional responses within health, education, welfare, and legal systems
Politics of care and institutional governance
Environmental trauma and climate-related suffering
Everyday practices of survival, hope, and recovery
Sport, resilience, identity, and psychosocial wellbeing
LGBTQIA+ and gender-diverse experiences of trauma and healing
Trauma, ethics, and transformative social change
Public policy and institutional innovations addressing trauma and inequality
Submission Guidelines
Submit a 250–300 word abstract.
Include a 100-word biographical note with institutional affiliation, email address, and ORCID.
Provide 5–7 keywords listed alphabetically.
Selected authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts through the journal's ScholarOne submission system.
Full manuscripts should not exceed 8,500 words, including references, tables, figures, endnotes, and appendices.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: 24 July 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 22 August 2026
Extended Abstract Submission: 16 September 2026
Full Manuscript Submission: 04 December 2026
Expected Online Publication: Late 2027
Special Issue Editors
Professor Mariam Seedat-Khan, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dr Jayanathan Govender, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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