JOURNAL AIMS AND SCOPE

Aims and scope: The Journal of Marxist Studies is an online-only, open-access, blind peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal. “Globalization is a two-edged sword. While it has created unprecedented economic opportunities, it has also intensified social inequalities within and across national borders” as Professor Lenore Lyons of University of Sydney wrote in 2006 in a paper presented to the Workshop “Transnationalisation of Solidarities and Women Movements” held at the Université de Montréal. This is surely the environment where Marx’s ideas should be thriving (actually they are but he is not getting credit for them). This journal welcomes theoretical and/or applied research papers which use Marxist theoretical frameworks to address contemporary or historic topics in accounting, business ethics, economics, education, finance, gender studies, law, literature, management, HRM, marketing, media and communication studies, post-colonial studies, race and ethnicity studies, and/or sociology.

We especially welcome applied papers using Marxist theory to interrogate contemporary issues involving professional sport, the music industry, religion, the retirement and death industry, global tourism, foreign worker issues, trade unionism, and globalization more generally. Studies about Really Existing Socialism in the old communist bloc are welcomed as are studies on post-communist developments in the ex-communist countries. Studies with a liberation theology bent are welcomed. If a study uses more than one theoretical framework then Marxism must be one of two primary frameworks and not be restricted to just one or two box-ticking quotations (“men make history...” etc.). We accept research using archival data, quantitative research, qualitative research, and mixed methods research. Research papers dealing with social justice and applied ethics topics or with a social justice or applied ethics focus will be most welcomed. Papers drawing partly or wholly upon the sub-disciplines of Critical Accounting and/or Critical Management Studies (CMS) will be most welcomed. We will also consider accounting, business, and business ethics education papers. Journal articles will normally be between 6,000 and 12,000 words including all references, footnotes, tables, and figures. Book reviews of between 750 and 4,000 words will also be considered for publication.