Overview

The International Journal on Responsibility (IJR) (ISSN: 2576-0955) is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, practical, and methodological explorations into the various and complex issues of responsibility. Animated by the question “Who or what is responsible to do what for whom?,” IJR is a broad-ranging journal that incorporates insights from the full range of academic and practical inquiry from the humanities and the social and natural sciences related to addressing the diverse aspects of responsibility.

As a collaborator with the African, African American, and Diaspora (AAAD) Studies Center, IJR would like to highlight this interdisciplinary body and its annual conference. For more information on this Center and its conference, please refer to the AAAD website. Conference participants are encouraged to consider IJR as an outlet for their scholarship. The journal accepts manuscripts on a rolling basis that are not under consideration or published elsewhere. Submitted manuscripts go through a peer-review process and must abide by journal requirements as specified in the Author Guidelines.

Support for this journal has been made possible by the Redekop Family Foundation.

Open Access

Affiliated with the Center for Global and Community Justice (formerly the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence) and published by JMU (James Madison University) Libraries, IJR is an open access journal that does not charge production costs. It is listed in Ulrich’s Periodicals directory and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

IJR publishes accepted manuscripts under a Creative Commons License, which allows authors to retain full copyright of their work and grants IJR a perpetual non-exclusive CC license enabling publication. Users can access scholarship published by IJR for any lawful purpose (e.g., reading, downloading, distributing, searching, printing, or linking full texts of published works) without needing permission from the author or the publisher. The default license is CC BY-NC-SA. However, authors have the option of selecting a CC BY-NC-ND license.

Current Scholarship

The eighth volume examines issues of responsibility surrounding the Spanish language. Guest edited by Dr. Diana Meza (James Madison University, College of Education), this semi-bilingual issue:

"reflects an intentional and profound commitment to linguistic inclusion, cultural diversity, and the shared responsibility of scholars to broaden the scope of academic dialogue beyond the boundaries of English."

"representa un compromiso intencional y profundo con la inclusión lingüística, la diversidad cultural y la responsabilidad compartida de ampliar los horizontes del diálogo académico más allá de los límites del inglés."

Forthcoming volumes examine the relationship between Climate and Responsibility and Free Speech and Responsibility. Articles in these volumes will be published individually as Online First articles before they appear in their respective completed issues.

Questions about thematic content regarding a potential submission or to suggest a potential issue should be directed to the Editor, Dr. Heather L. Scheuerman. Questions concerning the manuscript submission process or a submitted article should be directed to the Managing Editor, Sylvia J. Whitney Beitzel.

Current Issue: Volume 8, Issue 1 (2025)
The Spanish Language, Language Variations, Cultures and Responsibility