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description: The Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress (JUMP) is a refereed interdisciplinary publication (Print ISSN 2574-3465 & Online ISSN 2574-3481) dedicated to the educational, economic, and social progress of minority and underrepresented communities around the world. JUMP strives to provide space for a meaningful, intentional, and actionable scholarship that aims to advance social justice.
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items: Urgent: Special Issue on Law, Literature, and Justice in the SAARC Region: An Inquiry through Marginal Voices
items: Scholarly Publishing Meet-and-Greet Series
items: Special Issue on “The Tribal Chronicles of North-East India”
items: Special Issue on Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia

Urgent: Special Issue on Law, Literature, and Justice in the SAARC Region: An Inquiry through Marginal Voices
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description: The minutely intertwined interdisciplinary domain of Law and Literature has been an established academic and empirical field of inquiry in the West since the early twentieth century. It began to take shape and develop its roots with the outstanding and remarkably genius works of John Wigmore, James Boyd White and Richard Posner. Wigmore in his List of Legal Novels (1908) created an annotated bibliography of works that dealt with aspects of law, courtroom scenes and all forms of justice. James Boyd White, in his The Legal Imagination (1973) explored law as a rhetorical and literary activity, and Richard Posner’s Law and Literature (2009) established and systematized the domain. He was foundational in not only popularizing the domain of law and literature but also established it as an academic domain of critical inquiry. Posner has been fundamental in charting out the nuances and aspects in which law and literature share certain commonalities. These include sharing an inherent and strong foundation on language and rhetoric, both domains resting on sharp storytelling and the power of expression, and both shaping and reflecting societal values, power structures and human experiences. Despite this, Law and Literature remains a neglected domain in South Asia, particularly the SAARC nations encompassing India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Despite shared colonial legal legacies (particularly the British common law tradition inherited by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) and extraordinarily rich literary traditions that document injustice, resistance, and social transformation, this interdisciplinary scholarship has not taken institutional roots. In most law schools across the SAARC regions, particularly in India, the discipline of law and literature either does not exist at all or remains an elective choice for the students which they often bypass in favour of domains that study law theoretically and practically ra…
creator: Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress
date: 2026-08-15

Scholarly Publishing Meet-and-Greet Series
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description: Join this engaging, multidisciplinary Scholarly Publishing Meet-and-Greet Series designed for graduate students, early-career scholars, faculty members, and academic leaders. The series brings together journal editors, book series editors, reviewers, and publishers for open conversations on journal publishing, book development, peer review, AI in scholarship, and academic career pathways. ✔ One-time registration for all sessions ✔ Direct engagement with experienced editors and publishers ✔ Free to attend ✔ Certificate of participation for each session Complete online registration here Upcoming Sessions | download flyer Jan 15 – Publishing in Scholarly Journals: Standards, Strategies, and Success Jan 22 – Inside the Editorial Office: A Conversation with Journal Editors Jan 29 – AI & Peer Review Process: Equity, Ethics, and Editorial Responsibility Feb 5 – Publishing as a Graduate Student or Early-Career Scholar Feb 12 – From Dissertation to Journal Article: Refinement and Repositioning Feb 19 – Publishing Academic Books: From Proposal to Publication Feb 26 – Becoming a Book Series Editor: Leadership, Vision, and Practice Mar 5 – Editing & Managing Journal Special Issues Mar 12 – Publishing in Scopus-Indexed Journals: Standards, Rankings, and Myths Mar 19 – Artificial Intelligence and Journal Article Writing: Ethical Use and Best Practices
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date: 2026-01-17

Special Issue on “The Tribal Chronicles of North-East India”
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description: December 3, 2025 Call for Papers: Special Issue on “The Tribal Chronicles of North-East India” You are invited to submit a paper for possible inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of Underrepresented and Minority Progress (JUMP). The Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress (JUMP) is a refereed interdisciplinary publication (Print ISSN 2574-3465 & Online ISSN 2574-3481) dedicated to the educational, economic, and social progress of minority and underrepresented communities around the world. It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and international, open-access journal published by STAR Scholars Network and is indexed on SCOPUS, one of the major indexing databases for peer-reviewed literature. Tribal literature, in simple terms, refers to the rich set of literary pieces, oral and written, of a tribal community that reflects their generational customs and traditions echoing their cultural heritage. North-East India is composed of eight states: the “Seven Sisters” (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura) and the “brother” (Sikkim). It is home to over 200 tribal communities and several ethnic groups presenting one of the most culturally diverse regions of the whole world. These tribal communities assert themselves with their own languages, traditions, festivals, fashion, history, literature, foods, dance, songs and socio-political movements. The North-East tribal communities differ from the ones present in the other parts of India due to their distinct Tibeto-Burman origins, linguistic identity, accompanied by the historical and geographical isolation and political objectives. This isolation has contributed towards the flourishing of their own cultural identity away from the Dravidian and Indo-Aryan population of India with their own indigenous knowledge and connection to the land. This special issue for the “The Tribal Chronicles of North-East India” aims to highlight the unseen diverse literary shades of the tribal …
creator: Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress
date: 2025-12-07

Special Issue on Digital Marginalisation, AI Bias, and Cultural Representation in South Asia
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description: The Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress (JUMP) invites contributions for a special issue exploring how digital cultures and systems can both reflect and reinforce social marginalisation in the Global South, with a focus on South Asian contexts. This issue will examine caste, ethnic, gender, religious, and linguistic marginalisation in digital spaces, analysing how these forms of exclusion manifest in different regions while intersecting with broader East-West digital divides. We seek academically rigorous discussions that critically examine the cultural biases and power imbalances inherent in digital technologies. By bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship, this special issue aims to advance the understanding of digital marginalisation and provide a platform for scholarly discourse on these pressing issues. The Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress (JUMP) is a refereed interdisciplinary publication (Print ISSN 2574-3465 & Online ISSN 2574-3481) dedicated to the educational, economic, and social progress of minority and underrepresented communities around the world. It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and international open-access journal published by the STAR Scholars Network and is indexed in SCOPUS, one of the major indexing databases for peer-reviewed literature. Scope and Rationale Digital technologies are deeply entwined with society’s power structures. Research shows that axes of identity, such as race, gender, class, caste, religion, and language, fundamentally shape digital knowledge production and access (Risam, 2018). As a result, historically marginalised communities often face new forms of digital exclusion even as connectivity spreads globally. For example, biases and blind spots in data-driven systems can mirror existing social hierarchies: predictive algorithms have exhibited race and gender biases (Prescott 2023), and concerns have arisen that caste-based discrimination is echoed in online spaces and datasets (e.g…
creator: Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress
date: 2025-11-27