The University of Virginia Press is pleased to announce Dis(place)ment, Migration, and Social Justice, a new series that will publish the latest scholarship on forced relocation with a focus on the temporality of migration and the way that “place” is central to displacement. Informed by interdisciplinary perspectives about multiple forms of displacement, this series will examine and highlight how inscribed meaning on spaces define and deny the complexity of humanity, and their continued impact on communities through cyclical, generational, socioeconomic, and racial and ethnic implications of both forcible removal and voluntary relocation. This series will be edited by Dr. Katrina M. Powell, senior editor, and Dr. Andrea R. Roberts, consulting editor.

"Much of the scholarship about displacement focuses on a particular displacement event or a singular disciplinary approach,” observes Katrina M. Powell, series editor. “The complexity of displacement, however, calls for inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches. This series, therefore, includes texts and analyses across genres and audiences, including practitioner and arts-related work, that reflects the ways that scholars working in these areas collaborate and work with community partners and experts. Part of what makes this approach unique is the attention to the ways that displacement impacts us all.”

Consulting editor Andrea R. Roberts agrees: "Displacement manifests as a consequence of gentrification, post-disaster dispersals, traumatic cultural dislocation, disavowal of local knowledge and values, and sublimation of marginalized groups’ histories. This series takes a transdisciplinary approach to explicating the impacts of these and other emerging displacements in contexts ranging from the hyperlocal to the global."

Inspired by recent interdisciplinary scholarship on displacement and its impact, Dis(place)ment, Migration, and Social Justice welcomes projects from new and established scholars and practitioners, ranging from single-authored monographs to multi-authored/contributed volumes to books aimed at crossover audiences.

To inquire about publishing in the series, please contact Beth Colón Pizzini, Associate Acquisitions Editor of Africana Studies at the University of Virginia Press, at ehz2wg@virginia.edu.