Announcing CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion
The Brandeis Library is pleased to announce the launch of its first open-access journal: CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion.
Editors-in-Chief: Laurence R. Simon (Brandeis University, United States) and Sukhadeo Thorat (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Editorial Team: Joseph K, Assan (Brandeis University, United States), Suraj Yengde (Harvard University, United States), Dolly Daftary (University of Massachusetts – Boston, United States), Afia Adaboh (Brandeis University, United States), Jaspreet Mahal (Brandeis University, United States), Vinod Mishra (Indian Institute for Dalit Studies, India), Matthew Sheehy (Brandeis University, United States), and Brian Meuse (Brandeis University, United States)
The Editorial Team will be assisted in its work by an Editorial Advisory Board of highly reputed social scientists, philosophers, legal experts, and more from around the world.
CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion advances peer-reviewed scholarship across disciplines into caste systems in South Asia and beyond and considers the marginalization and inter-generational oppression of religious, racial and cultural minorities throughout the world.
J-CASTE assesses social policies meant to counter exclusion in multiple spheres and intolerance in multi-faith democracies. Our authors come from varying disciplines including philosophy and ethics, theology and culture, sociology and anthropology, economics, law, health, literature, and art among others. We welcome critical reviews of our papers, as well as book and film reviews and commentaries. The journal now welcomes submissions via its website, https://www.brandeis.edu/j-