International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies

International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies (IJCDS) launched in 2018 is administered by the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) based in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. WiCDS is an interdisciplinary initiative designed to produce cutting-edge knowledge which contributes towards the deepening of local and international; theoretical and practical understandings of diversity.

WiCDS was established in 2014 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. WiCDS aims to build capacity to meet the challenges of diverse societies, especially in post-apartheid South Africa through interdisciplinary postgraduate education and research. In addition to being grounded in social justice imperatives, WiCDS’s education, programmes and research are informed by Melissa Steyn’s (2007) notion of Critical Diversity Literacy (CDL) which is “a sharply focused critical lens which examines those operations of power which implicate social identities to create systems of privilege, advantage, disadvantage and oppression.” 

International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies (IJCDS) aims to provide an undisciplinary platform for critical engagement with hierarchies of power that create and sustain privilege and oppression along axes of difference. Areas of interest include the constructions of social locations and positionalities; intersections, co-constructions and co-constitutions of systems of oppression; race; gender; sexuality; dis/ability; class; age etc.; the politics of knowledge production; the politics of being and affect; the politics of history and time; the politics of geography and location; reproduction and resistance social injustice; reframing differences. This journal will accept original articles (research and theoretical), commentaries and book reviews.

Editor-in-Chief

Melissa Steyn, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Associate Editors

Book Review Editor: William Mpofu, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Commentary Editor: Haley McEwen, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Editorial Assistant

Gillian Jena, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Editorial Researcher

Rudo Mzite, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Editorial Board

Authors are required to adhere to specific guidelines when submitting manuscripts. For detailed instructions please see Instructions for Authors.

Editorial Office:

International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa,
Private Bag 3,
Wits,
2050, 
Johannesburg,
South Africa.

Tel: +27 11 717 4418

Email: ijcds.wicds@wits.ac.za

Publisher Pluto Journals, evek@plutojournals.com  

The Journal is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed journal published in June and December. The journal has been indexed on DOAJ since March 2023. For the purposes of preservation and restoration the PORTICO archiving system is used to create permanent archives for the journal. For more information on WiCDS visit the official website here. 

The journal is Open Access and the Open Access statement, Open Access license terms, copyright terms as well as a statement on its absolute lack of author charges can be found here. 

The journal became Open Access on 1 January 2021 and is published open access on ScienceOpen. All journal material published prior to 1 January 2021 is also published, Open Access on ScienceOpen here. This means the reuse rights of published material is all under the open  CC BY 4.0 license as stated here. .

The journal adheres to the ethical standards endorsed by the Committee on Publication Ethics
(https://publicationethics.org/). In particular:

• We expect all authors to state in their article if they have a conflict of interest which could potentially
  bias their opinions – for example funding or employment.
• All named authors on the articles should confirm that they have jointly participated in the research and
  writing of the article, and that no author has been omitted from the list of authors.
• We require authors to warrant that their articles are original, have not been previously published, and do
  not plagiarise or otherwise copy someone else’s work without attribution. (If the article is a translation,
  we are happy to consider this for publication but the authors must inform the editors on submission.
• We also require authors to warrant that their article does not defame, libel, or bring another person into
  disrepute, and neither does it contain anything illegal (e.g. copyright infringing).