In this episode, Gabriel Silvestre, a lecturer in urban planning at Newcastle University in England, and Guillermo Jajamovich, an Adjunct Researcher at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “The afterlives of urban megaprojects: Grounding policy models and recirculating knowledge through domestic networks.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 3:10 The article’s focus & purpose 5:38 Writing together: 15:40 Choosing a journal: 20:29 Addressing comments from reviewers: 26:19 Writing for English-language journals: 35:56 Wise advice for fellow authors: 41:59 Authors’ hopes for their article: 48:37 Podcast credits & further information: 53:49 The article was published in 2022, in Volume 40 Issue 7 of Politics & Space. It is Open Access on the journal’s website, so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23996544221082411

Our third episode features Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith. Pavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Sara is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They tell the inside story of researching writing and publishing their article, “The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 3:25 The article’s focus & purpose 5:42 Writing together (as mentor & mentee): 12:48 Addressing comments from reviewers & others: 21:05 Revising strategies & writing styles: 27:44 The importance of journal editors: 35:26 Wise advice for fellow authors: 40:55 Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 46:05 Podcast credits & further information: 52:40 The article was published in 2020, in Volume 38 Issue 7-8 of Politics & Space. It is part of a theme issue on “Feminist Political Geographies: Critical Reflections, New Directions,” which was guest edited by Caroline Faria, Vanessa A. Massaro, Jill M. Williams. The article is free to access on the journal's website so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654420901567

In this episode, Lisa Freeman, an urban geographer with a doctorate from the University of Toronto who is a researcher at a healthcare union and Nick Blomley, a professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “Enacting property: Making space for the public in the municipal library.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 2:35 Creating the conceptual framework: 8:31 Intended audience(s): 12:27 Drafting the manuscript: 14:03 Life intervening & keeping going, slowly: 17:59 Choosing a journal & handling a rejection: 21:18 Addressing reviewers’ & editor’s comments: 24:52 Wise advice for fellow authors: 36:35 Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 4013 Podcast credits & further information: 43:41 The article was published in 2019, in Volume 37 Issue 2 of Politics & Space. It’s free to access, so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654418784024

In our first episode, Luiza Bialasiewicz, a professor of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam, and Sabrina Stallone, a doctoral student at the University of Bern, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “Focalizing new-Fascism: Right politics and integralisms in contemporary Italy.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 02:25 Doing the research: 09:50 Creating the conceptual framework: 16:00 Drafting the manuscript: 20:26 Choosing a journal for submission: 26:54 Dealing with reviewers’ comments: 31:50 Various forms of English, writing styles, & article structures: 39:01 Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 44:40 Podcast credits & further information: 48:11 The article was published in 2020, in Volume 38 Issue 3 of Politics & Space. It’s free to access on the journal’s website, so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654419871303

Welcome to Minor Revisions, a podcast that demystifies the process of writing for academic journals. This short ‘trailer’ describes the purpose of the podcast (to demystify the publishing process through behind the scenes stories told by published authors) and highlights who might be interested in listening to future episodes (many people, we hope!). Later this Fall, we’ll release our first episode, in which geographer Luiza Bialasiewicz and anthropologist Sabrina Stallone discuss how they wrote and published their recent article in the journal Politics & Space.