About the Journal

FOCUS AND SCOPE

ABYA-YALA - JOURNAL ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAS (ISSN 2526-6675/ Qualis Capes: A3) is an academic journal organized within the activities of the Laboratory on Access to Justice and Inequalities - LADES (Law/UnB). Edited in collaboration with the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) of Mexico and with the Graduate Program in Agrarian Law of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). The journal focuses on the issue of access to justice and rights in the Americas and seeks to bring together multi and interdisciplinary, theoretical, empirical and comparative studies carried out in the most different countries of the continent. Its proposal is to stimulate and give flow to empirical and comparative studies and research in the thematic area, advocating qualitative approaches and multicultural, intersectional and critical perspectives. The magazine also proposes to give space, from the American regional perspective, to dialogue with other regions of the world, mainly with countries of the global south.

For the development of its activities and composition of its scientific council, the journal also has the collaboration of CIESAS-Mexico and members of the Latin American Network of Legal Anthropology (RELAJU).

Target audience for the magazine:

Postgraduate students, researchers and researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and higher education teachers.

 

SECTION POLICIES

EDITORIAL

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TRIBUTE

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ARTICLES

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ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

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Interview

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DOSSIER

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EVALUATION PROCESS

The works submitted to Abya Yala undergo a double blind evaluation system, in which two different evaluators analyze and evaluate the submission, observing the following criteria:

  • The article meets the rules required by the journal.
  • The text has clarity, coherence and objectivity.
  • The article is divided into sections and has internal structure.
  • The sections of the article are interrelated.
  • In formal aspects, the article corresponds to academic standards.
  • The article establishes a dialogue with studies on access to justice and rights in the Americas.
  • The theme of the article has originality.
  • The article's approach is innovative.
  • Conducting the theme and approach is relevant to the objectives proposed in the article itself.
  • The article makes good use of the proposed theoretical framework.
  • The methodology followed was exposed and followed.
  • The summary of the article expresses the objectives and results achieved.
  • The bibliography used dialogues with national and international production.
  • The analysis made corresponds to the data presented.
  • The article fulfills the objectives for which it is proposed.
 

FREQUENCY

Semiannual (2 X year)

 

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

New numbers published in:

June 31st 

December 30st 

Please be advised that no new issues will be published.

FREE ACCESS POLICY

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that providing free scientific knowledge to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.

Abya Yala does not charge fees for job submission. Processing of articles received is also free.

 

ARCHIVING

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed file system between participating libraries and allows them to create permanent journal files for preservation and restoration.

 

PRIVACY POLICY
The names and addresses informed in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication, and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

 

ETHICS POLICY AND GOOD PRACTICE GUIDELINES IN PUBLICATION

Abya Yala assumes an ethical commitment to her publications and adopts international ethical standards to guarantee the quality of the works she publishes. Based on the principles of originality, reliability, transparency, respect for copyright,

To this end, the magazine adopts the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE and the following conflict of interest policy:

1. Evaluators: they must immediately report the occurrence of conflicts of interest, of any nature, to the editorial team, declaring themselves prevented from proceeding with the evaluation of manuscripts. This measure is necessary to guarantee the reliability of the double blind evaluation process;
2. Authors: must disclose in their manuscripts any conflict of interest, whether financial or otherwise, that may lead to influence the results or the interpretation of their manuscripts. All sources of funding for the relevant research project must be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include employment relationships, consultancies, shareholding, honors, expertise, patent registration, awards or other financing. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed as soon as possible.
3. Editorial team: all members of the editorial team must, immediately, report the existence of a conflict of interest, whenever they identify a situation that can be framed in this way. No member of the editorial team will use their function to obtain their own benefits, such as using unpublished data or materials disclosed in an article that has been submitted to the magazine. The team must safeguard the confidentiality of the editorial data during the entire publishing process, especially in the double blind evaluation stage.

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL

  • Agustín Escobar Latapí, doutor, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México
  • Alejandro Medici, doutor, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina
  • Alejandro Rosillo, doutor, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), México
  • Alexandre Bernardino Costa, doutor, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • Antônio Carlos Wolkmer, doutor, Universidade La Salle (Unilasalle), Brasil
  • Carlos Frederico Mares de Souza Filho, doutor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC/PR), Brasil
  • Charles Hale, doutor, University of Texas, Austin, Estados Unidos das Américas
  • Consuelo Sanchez, doutora, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), México
  • Cristiano Paixão, doutor, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • Daniel Bonilla, doutor, Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), Colômbia
  • David Recondo, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) -Pacífico Sur, México
  • David Sánchez Rubio, Universidad de Sevilla, Espanha
  • Eduardo Saxe-Fernández, doutor, Universidad Nacional (UNA), Costa Rica
  • Ela Wiecko Volkmer de Castilho, doutora, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • Elena Azaola Garrido, doutora, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México
  • Eneá de Stutz Almeida, doutora, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • Esther Sanchez, doutora, Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), Colômbia
  • Farid Samir Benevides, doutor, Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), Colômbia
  • Fernando Antônio de Carvalho Dantas, doutor, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Brasil
  • Fernando García, Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais (Flacso), Equador
  • Hector Diaz-Polanco, doutor, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México
  • Irene Bellier, doutora, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (EHESS), França
  • José Carlos Moreira da Silva Filho, doutor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brasil
  • José Geraldo de Sousa Jr., doutor, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • José Roberto Xavier, doutor, FGV Direito SP, Brasil
  • Karina Mariela Ansolabehere, doutora, Universidade Nacional Autónoma do México (UNAM), México
  • Luis Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, doutor, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • María Magdalena Gomez Rivera, doutora, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN), México
  • Maria Tereza Sierra, doutora, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México
  • Marjorie Corrêa Marona, doutora, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brasil
  • Michel Wievorka, doutor, Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH), França
  • Milka Castro Lucic, doutora, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  • Morita Carrasco, doutora, Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
  • Odile Hoffman, doutora, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), França
  • Pablo Gentili, doutor, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil
  • Rachel Henriette Sieder, doutora, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México
  • Rainer Enrique Hamel, doutor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), México
  • Ramiro Molina Rivero, doutor, Universidad Católica Boliviana, Bolívia
  • Raquel Yrigoyen Fajardo, doutora, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad (IIDS), Peru
  • Rebecca Lemos Igreja, doutora, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • Ricardo Verdum, doutor, Museu Nacional, Unviersidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil
  • Roberto Kant de Lima, doutor, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brasil
  • Silvina Ramirez, doutora, Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
  • Talita Tatiana Dias Rampin, doutora, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasil 
  • Victoria Chenault, doutora, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), México
  • Walter Antillón, doutor, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
 

HISTORIC

Abya-Yala is an original expression of the Kuna language used to designate the territory that today we know as "American continent". Delimiting an exact meaning for the Abya-Yala expression is a difficult task, since the ancestral languages ”‹”‹- as is the case of the kuna - have terms of high degree of abstraction and plurissignification. "Yala" is denomination for land, territory. "Abya" denotes mother, young woman mature, vital blood. Together, the terms transmigrate to conform new meanings: land of all, territory in full maturity, living land, of blood. It is ancestral area that welcomes everyone.

Since 1492 the peoples of Abya-Yala have been resisting and fighting for the recognition of their identities, cultures and worldview. European colonization on the continent, begun in the fifteenth century and intensified and complicated in subsequent periods, marks a violent process of exploitation and genocide of the original peoples. This condition of subordination of different peoples and strata of the socially deprived population is perpetuated in a situation of internal colonialism that promotes a deep social injustice.

In recent years, the emergence and strengthening of new political forces, social movements and the elaboration of new national constitutions on the continent have highlighted the need to broaden citizenship, to reverse this situation of subordination and to promote not only political rights, but also social rights for all. The issue of access to justice is gaining ground in this context, since this access is considered as a fundamental right to guarantee the demands for social justice.

Abya-Yala is resigned in the magazine's proposal as a constant struggle for the realization of social justice and the guarantee of human rights in the American continent and in the other countries, especially in the global South, who share this same struggle. It is the resistance to any strategy that denies the specificities, experiences and contexts of the various countries and at the same time denies recognition of the human rights of citizens.

ABYA-YALA - JOURNAL ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAS is an academic journal organized by the University of Brasilia, in a co-edition with CIESAS / Mexico and the Postgraduate Program in Agrarian Law at UFG. For the development of its activities and scientific advice, the journal also has the collaboration of members of the Latin American Network of Legal Anthropology - RELAJU.

Abya-Yala is therefore a journal that aims to stimulate and disseminate, in the field of human and social sciences, studies on justice and rights from the different Latin American contexts and from America in general. In particular, it intends to give rise to critical, multidisciplinary, multicultural, plural and comparative studies and reflections on access to justice, which is as much a phenomenon as it can be an analytical category, an instrument of domination or the right of the human person. 

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