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Managing an academic journal with care

In: How to Edit and Manage a Successful Scholarly Journal

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  • Matej Blazek

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With the importance of publishing for academic careers, everyone wants the process to be as effective as possible: authors wish for a speedy and attentive review process; reviewers for their time to be spent where it is most needed; and editors for a system that copes with the large amount of work that goes into manuscript productions. In this chapter, I position the idea of effectiveness next to the ethics of care. Drawing on experience of editing the journal Children’s Geographies, I aim to show that care and effectiveness should not be seen in opposition but that the former can foster the latter. Thinking through the range of relationships and commitments a journal’s editor has - from the immediate ones with authors, reviewers and other editors, to the more implicit ones with the wider academic and non-academic community - I aim to illustrate how an ethics of care make for arrangements that prove stronger in the long term and for scholarship that can shift the established ways of thinking.

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  • Matej Blazek, 2024. "Managing an academic journal with care," Chapters, in: Iain Hay & Gareth Butler & Gerti Szili (ed.), How to Edit and Manage a Successful Scholarly Journal, chapter 16, pages 169-179, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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