Calls for Papers

The Journal of Practice Theory welcomes contributions on all topics that advance the study of practices and their significance in contemporary society.

We accept open submissions year-round across all sections of the journal and also publish themed special section collections on particular topics. Current calls are listed below.

Open Submissions

The journal accepts open submissions to the following sections. Contributions are published online on a rolling basis and then gathered into issues.

  • Research Articles (8,000–10,000 words): Full-length research articles that are either based on empirical research or that are conceptual in nature.
  • Essays (3,000–6,000 words): Shorter pieces that pursue a distinct argument.
  • Columns (up to 1,500-2,000 words): short, speculative, or opinionated interventions.

We also welcome proposals for innovative formats that experiment with style and form. For details, see our Types of Contributions page.

We are open to proposals for special sections or collections. If you would like to propose a theme, guest edit, or develop a collaborative project, please contact the editorial team at jpt@lancaster.ac.uk

Current Calls

Special Section - Practice Theory and Power: Politics, Conflict, Transformation

Vol. 3 – 2027

How should practice theory engage with questions of power, conflict, and politics? This section examines how power circulates within and between practices, how conflict shapes social life, and how transformation unfolds through everyday arrangements. We welcome contributions addressing topics such as inequality, governance, domination, resistance, resources, infrastructures, and the politics of practice.

Submissions from: 1st December 2026

Submission deadline: February 2027

Editors: Stanley Blue, Ted Schatzki, and Elizabeth Shove

Further details: here

Special Issue - Practicing Place

Vol. 3(2) - 2027

How should practice theory engage with questions of place, emplacement, and displacement? This special issue explores the proposition that places are not simply locations but are continuously constituted through practices. It examines how places are made, contested, imagined, inhabited, bounded, and transformed, and how practices bind people, materials, meanings, and environments together.

We welcome contributions from across the social sciences, humanities, geography, philosophy, and cultural studies, particularly those addressing conflictuality, imaginaries of place, public life, post- and decolonial perspectives, ecological challenges, and more-than-human practice constellations.

Abstract deadline: 30th September 2026

Submission deadline: 1st February 2027

Guest Editors: Robert Schmidt and Joost van Loon

Further details: here