focus and scope

From the European South: a transdisciplinary journal of postcolonial humanities is a refereed, open access e-journal that publishes articles, reviews, interviews, and creative interventions exploring the various facets – textual, figural, artistic, spatial, historical, social, political – of the postcolonial across the wide spectrum of the humanities.

It stems from the postcolonialitalia research project at the University of Padua, and intends to be a forum for the scientific research and conversations of scholars, intellectuals and artists who are based/located in the European South or involved in and contributing to debates of/from the Global South.

The title refers to a provocative theoretical location, rather than an identifiable geo-political region, connected to the notion of the ‘Global South’, which has become shorthand for the world of non-European postcolonial peoples, and to the ‘diffused’, percolating, entangled Souths of contemporary migrations.

The journal does not confine its attentions to any single place, region or discipline. It publishes original and challenging contributions from all over the world, and it aims to generate a productive dialogue and exchange between theorists and writers in disparate locations.

In order to remain critical of academically instituted forms of cultural knowledge production, the journal is committed to a rigorous analysis of the neocolonial and uneven power relationships between the North and the South at the crossroads of class, gender, religion, ethnic belonging, and race.

section policies

editorial

open submissions

indexed

peer reviewed

articles

open submissions

indexed

peer reviewed

interviews

open submissions

indexed

peer reviewed

book reviews

open submissions

indexed

peer reviewed

peer review process

All articles submitted to the Editorial Board are subjected to an anonymous peer review by two reviewers. The reviewers’ recommendations are taken into consideration by the editor handling the submission, in order to formulate publication and revision decisions.

publication frequency

From the European South started as an annual journal in 2016. Since 2019, it has been published twice a year.

open access policy

From the European South provides open access to all of its contents to make research and current intellectual and scientific debate freely available.

From the European South is a Diamond Open Access Journal.No publication/submission/waiver policy charges or fees are applied.

This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Citations of the author’s work must be accompanied by reference to the author and to the journal as source (year, issue, and page).

repository policy

FES journal acknowledges the importance of maximizing the visibility and accessibility of scholarly research by supporting the self-archiving of its publications.

1. Self-archiving article version:
   • The publisher’s final version, or Version of Record, may be used.
   • The peer-reviewed accepted version, or Author Accepted Manuscript, is not allowed;
   • The use of the preprint, or Author Manuscript (pre-peer reviewed) version, is not allowed.
2. Permitted sites:
   • Disciplinary, subject-related, institutional or non-commercial online repositories;
   • Websites of research-funding organizations that have provided support for the research of an article;
   • Author’s website.
3. Terms of use:
   • The published source must be acknowledged with a full citation.
   • The CC BY-NC-ND license must be used.

prior publication policy

FES journal considers for publication only original work that has not previously been published. It is the responsibility of authors to let editors know at the time of submission whether a paper’s contents have been previously disseminated in any manner, so that the editors can determine whether to proceed with the review process.

• Sharing of ‘working papers’ to a limited audience is not considered prior publication.
• Preprint shared online is considered prior publication.
• Publication in the form of an abstract is not considered prior publication.

artificial intelligence (AI) policy

From the European South journal does not allow artificial intelligence tools (AI, GenAI) or large language models (LLMs) to be listed as authors of its publications. 

As  reported by the Committee on Publication Ethics, AI tools do not meet the requirements for authorship because they cannot assume ethical and legal responsibility for their work.

Authors who use AI tools to produce text or images/graphics, or to collect data, must disclose the use of AI to the editors and be transparent about it in their manuscripts and the role of these tools in the development of their work.

Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscripts, including any portions produced by AI tools.

Usage of LLMs or GenAI tools to assist in the peer review process is currently disapproved.