About the Journal

Mission

GPS: Global Performance Studies is a peer-reviewed, Open Access academic journal. We provide a platform for scholars and artists engaged in a broad range of performance studies, including contemporary performance practices; theory, politics, social and cultural contexts of and as performance; performance and visual arts and media; and practices of resilience and care for everyday life. We emphasize a global perspective on these themes and practices, and aim to support under-represented narratives and epistemologies that trouble and contest the discipline of performance studies. 

Platform

As an online platform, GPS aims to create and utilize digital methods of publishing as a method for supporting diverse and situated knowledges that intervene within centralized or universalizing academic discourses. We are interested in modes of scholarship that engage productively with the relationship between form and content, and we support video and audio papers, podcasts, and recordings; performance texts, scores, and scripts; as well as academic articles that take a more conventional text form. GPS is published biannually and is funded by Performance Studies international. 

Editorial and peer-review policies

All submissions are considered by the editors for suitability in relation to the above mission.  Every submission that is accepted for consideration is assigned to two external reviewers whose expertise is appropriate to the submission. GPS uses double-blind peer review, where both reviewers and authors are anonymized, except in cases where authors cannot be anonymized (as in video pieces or other non-text formats). The editors will make the final decision about publication or assess the need for further revision, and are committed to supporting work from emerging and underrepresented scholars and areas of research. 

We understand academic scholarship to be part of, and not separate from, the global contexts that it describes, and we are committed to editing as a political act, amplifying voices that are not always heard in global scholarship, and expanding possibilities for multilingual and coalitional publishing.