About the Journal
Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance is a peer-reviewed, open-access digital journal dedicated to the rigorous exploration of embodied knowledge, artistic practice, and aesthetic resistance. Centering Africana, diasporic, Indigenous, and Global Majority perspectives, the journal examines how creative and performative practices function as sites of theory, archives of history, and modes of political and cultural intervention.
The journal is grounded in the understanding that the body is not merely a medium of expression, but a repository of knowledge—one that carries memory, ideology, technique, and historical consciousness across time and space. Through movement, sound, visuality, ritual, spatial practice, and material culture, communities have long theorized their worlds, preserved collective memory, and resisted erasure. Voiceless Shouts foregrounds these practices as legitimate and essential forms of scholarly inquiry.
Committed to interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches, the journal welcomes scholarship that challenges inherited epistemologies and expands methodological possibility. We publish work that interrogates how the “unruly arts”—those that refuse aesthetic containment, institutional domestication, or disciplinary conformity—operate as forms of resistance and world-making. This includes both critical analyses and practice-based research that bridge the academy, creative spaces, and public life.
As a digital journal, Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance embraces multimodal scholarship, recognizing that some arguments cannot be fully articulated through text alone. Submissions may incorporate video, sound, image, and interactive media alongside written analysis, provided they meet the journal’s standards of intellectual rigor and peer review.
The journal is also attentive to contemporary questions surrounding technology, archives, and knowledge production. Where digital tools and artificial intelligence intersect with creative practice, we insist on humanistic and ethical frameworks that honor embodied ways of knowing and cultural accountability.
Ultimately, Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance serves as an intellectual home for scholars and artists committed to documenting, analyzing, and advancing knowledge that has too often been marginalized or misrecognized. By centering the body as archive and the arts as theory, the journal contributes to global conversations about power, memory, resistance, and the future of the humanities.
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Mission Statement
Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance exists to advance rigorous, accessible, and culturally accountable scholarship on embodied knowledge, artistic practice, and aesthetic resistance. The journal creates an intellectual home for work that centers Africana, diasporic, Indigenous, and Global Majority perspectives and recognizes the body, the arts, and creative practice as vital sites of theory, history, memory, and political imagination.
The mission of the journal is to challenge erasure, misrecognition, and disciplinary containment by publishing scholarship and creative inquiry that foregrounds knowledge systems too often marginalized by dominant academic, cultural, and institutional traditions. Through interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches, Voiceless Shouts supports work that documents, analyzes, and advances embodied and artistic practices as powerful forms of resistance, world-making, and scholarly intervention.
Aims & Scope
Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance publishes peer-reviewed scholarship, creative-critical work, practice-based research, reviews, interviews, and multimodal submissions that examine the relationship between embodied knowledge, artistic practice, cultural memory, and resistance.
The journal welcomes work situated within Africana, diasporic, Indigenous, and Global Majority contexts, as well as comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary studies that engage questions of power, history, representation, aesthetics, and knowledge production. We are especially interested in submissions that examine how creative and performative practices function as sites of theory, archives of history, and modes of cultural, political, and intellectual intervention.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Embodied knowledge, performance, movement, ritual, and gesture
- Africana, diasporic, Indigenous, and Global Majority arts and expressive cultures
- Dance, theatre, music, visual culture, film, literature, sound, spatial practice, and material culture
- Aesthetic resistance, cultural memory, archival absence, and acts of recovery
- Practice-based research, creative-critical scholarship, and multimodal inquiry
- Decolonial, Indigenous, and anti-racist methodologies
- Public humanities, community-based cultural work, museums, archives, and heritage practice
- Digital culture, technology, artificial intelligence, ethics, and the politics of representation
The journal seeks submissions that are intellectually rigorous, methodologically grounded, and accessible to readers across disciplines and beyond the academy. Work may be theoretical, historical, critical, ethnographic, practice-based, archival, curatorial, pedagogical, or experimental, provided it aligns with the journal’s commitment to embodied knowledge, artistic resistance, and cultural accountability.
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Digital & Multimodal Scholarship
As a digital journal, Voiceless Shouts, Unruly Arts & Embodied Resistance recognizes that some forms of knowledge cannot be fully conveyed through text alone. The journal welcomes multimodal scholarship that incorporates video, sound, image, movement documentation, digital exhibits, interactive media, or other forms of creative and digital expression alongside written analysis.
Multimodal submissions should not use media as illustration alone, but as part of the argument, method, archive, or scholarly contribution. Whether through recorded performance, soundscape, visual essay, digital storytelling, movement analysis, or interactive documentation, submissions should demonstrate intellectual rigor, ethical engagement, and cultural accountability.
The journal is also attentive to the contemporary intersections of technology, archives, artificial intelligence, and creative practice. We welcome work that critically examines digital tools and emerging technologies while honoring embodied ways of knowing, community-based knowledge systems, and the cultural contexts from which creative practices emerge.
