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: 
The authors & their article: 
Doing the research: 
Creating the conceptual framework: 
Drafting the manuscript: 
Choosing a journal for submission: 
Dealing with reviewers’ comments: 
Various forms of English, writing styles, & article structures: 
Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 
Podcast credits & further information: 

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

Episode 2: Lisa Freeman & Nick Blomley, 'Enacting property'

Minor Revisions is a podcast that demystifies the process of writing for academic journals. It is produced by the editors of Politics & Space, an international journal of critical, interdisciplinary research into the political and the spatial. Each episode features authors who tell the ‘behind the curtain’ story of how they developed their article and succeeded in the review process.