content
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Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture will produce two issues per calendar year. It will primarily publish original, full-length, research-based articles of no more than 10,000 words (inclusive of notes and references). All submissions will go through a double, anonymous, peer-review process, with the exception of instances when the co-editors determine that a direct process between reviewer(s) and author would enhance the quality of a particular submission. In such an instance, the co-editors should obtain approval from the managing editors.
In addition, RPC will publish alternative scholarly reports that archive, document, theorize, or participate in various types of intervention as detailed in the mission. The genre of such contributions may vary widely and include (but not be limited to) interviews, reflections, or collections of primary documents that help to augment the mission of the journal. These contributions should also be no more than 10,000 words and must undergo either the same peer-review process as outlined above or a “fact-checking” process that might include the addition of corroborating sources. RPC forums will be comprised of original work on a coherent theme selected by the forum editor(s), although the form may vary (e.g., essays, poems, provocations, case studies, visual art). For written work, forum pieces should be between 1,500-3,000 words inclusive of notes and references. The forum editor(s) will solicit contributors for their forums and take them through an open peer review process. In some instances, the forum editor(s) may decide to invite additional reviewers to enhance the quality of certain contributions. RPC will accept proposals for special issues or special forums. Those proposals will be vetted by the co-editors in consultation with the forum editor(s) and executive board on a rolling basis. All special issues must go through the same double, anonymous peer-review process as submissions to regular issues. Special forums will follow the same process as regular forums. Special issues and forums cannot go into production without the approval of the RPC editors. |
management
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Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture will be helmed by two to three co-editors who will serve for no more than one four-year term without a break from service. The co-editors will comprise one colleague from rhetoric in English and one from Communication. In addition to the co-editors, RPC will include an executive board of four to six people who will also serve as members of the editorial board and whose other primary task will be the selection of new co-editors. For the sake of continuity, two of the executive board will serve five-year terms, and the other four members will serve the same term as the co-editors. Thus, each new team of co-editors will appoint two managing editors for four-year terms and two for five-year terms. The executive board members will also serve no more than one four or five-year term without a break. Co-editors will be responsible for constructing an editorial board of no more than 25 scholars. There are no term limits for editorial board members.
In addition, co-editors will be responsible for selecting a forum editor or co-editors, who will also serve no more than one consecutive four-year term. Forums will be peer-reviewed by the forum editor(s) with a final review by the RPC co-editors. The RPC co-editors will make the final determination about the content of the forum and, in rare instances, they may elect to send a forum in its entirety or individual pieces to members of the editorial board for additional review. In the first years of the journals, the co-editors will edit and establish the forum. Decision making for the appointment of the main editors and the forum editors will ideally be made using a consensus voting structure. If consensus cannot be made, in rare instances and if applicable, a consensus minus one structure may be used. In the event that the main co-editors disagree on a decision that is theirs alone to make, the question will be put before the executive board who will deliberate and publicly vote. A simple majority is needed to go forward. |
funding
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For a journal of about 200 pages, published electronically with a print-on-demand option:
● Initial design: $1,000 ● Copyediting per issue: $1,300 ● Typesetting per issue: $1,500 ● Printing per issue (e-only): $750 ● Hosting (JSTOR): $2,000 per year ● Fulfillment services: $2,000 per year The proposers of this new journal commit to raise $50,000 to launch the new journal. For a listing of the original funders for this journal, click here. |
This webpage represents the original proposal that launched RPC. We offer it here as way to extend full transparency on RPC as well as general behind-the-scenes logistics of beginning a print-based journal that is not funded through a professional society, academic conference, university department, or wealthy white donor/founder.
