Small States & Territories Journal

Call for papers

Call for papers

Call for Papers: SST 8(2), November 2025

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024): His contribution to small state studies
A special section to appear in: Small States and Territories, 8(2), November 2025

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024) was a world-leading social anthropologist whose fame was also based on fieldwork in two small island states: Trinidad and Tobago, and Mauritius. He also published widely on inter-ethnic urban relations in a third small state, his native Norway. In this special section of SST, guest edited by his life-long friend and collaborator Iver B. Neumann, we aim to honour Thomas’s contribution to research and policy by discussing his work on the inter-ethnic urban integration of small state societies, and on small states more generally.

We are particularly looking for papers that critically discuss:
•    Trinidadian studies
•    Mauritian and Indian Ocean studies
•    Norwegian and Scandinavian studies
•    Ethnic interaction in small states
•    Assessment of Thomas’s anthropological work for small states studies in general
•    In- and our-migration to and from small states

To be eligible for consideration, please submit an abstract of around 200 words to Guest SST Section Editor, Dr Iver B. Neumann, Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, at: ibneumann@fni.no  The abstract should be accompanied by the name of the author(s), institutional affiliation, email address, the title of the proposed paper, and 5-6 keywords. All manuscripts must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere and will be rigorously peer-reviewed.

Manuscripts should be around 6,000 words long. All details regarding the SST house style can be found at: www.um.edu.mt/sst/guidelines  

Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: by 15 March 2025
Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstract: by 25 March 2025
Submission of full manuscript to Guest Section Editor: by 30 June 2025
Publication (Online; Open Access): Early November 2025

Call for Papers: SST 9(1), May 2026

Referendums in small states and territories: The elusive ‘Yes’ vote

Small States & Territories journal, Special Section, Vol. 9, No. 1, May 2026

Referendums in small states and territories are back in the news. Recent examples, include New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Puerto Rico. There have been referendums on political status, electoral systems and constitutional reform, but often results support the status quo rather than change. The focus of the conference is on these entities and to what extent change can be brought about by referendums. This is critical as it is likely that referendums will be held in several countries and territories over the next few years, for example, Jamaica on becoming a republic. In short, the conference considers how past referendums can positively inform ones to come.

A conference on this theme is being is co-organised by the Centre for Small States, Queen Mary University of London, UK – which is the conference host – the University of Malta, Malta; and the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, in April 2025. Panel titles include: Referendums in the English-speaking Caribbean, Referendums in the Atlantic/Europe Region, Referendums Unresolved, and Referendums: A View into the Future.

We welcome papers from this Conference, and from other scholars, to be considered for a special section of Small States & Territories – a diamond open access journal – Vol. 9, No. 1, May 2026.

To be eligible for consideration, please submit an abstract of around 200 words to one of the two Guest Section Editors, Dr Peter Clegg, University of the West of England, U.K. - Peter.Clegg@uwe.ac.uk or Dr Wendy C. Grenade, St George's University, Grenada, West Indies - wgrenade@sgu.edu - by 15 May 2025. The abstract should include the author(s) name, affiliation, the title of the proposed study, up to five keywords, and the corresponding email address. All manuscripts will be rigorously double-blind peer-reviewed.

All details regarding the SST house style can be found at: www.um/edu.mt/sst

Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2025
Deadline for complete draft submission to Guest Editors: 30 September 2025
Publication (Online: Diamond Open Access): SST, Vol. 9, No. 1, May 2026


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About the journal: Launched in 2018, Small States & Territories (SST) has its institutional home at the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta. All articles published in SST are rigorously peer-reviewed. SST is committed to the principles of open access (OA) publishing, as outlined in the IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation. SST is a Diamond Open Access journal, with no processing charges or fees.


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