The Editorial Board, the Editor, and the editorial staff of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies have decided to change the title of the publication to the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies. The journal is expanding its scope not only to appeal to a broader audience, but also so it can include such areas as Latin American Studies, Diaspora Studies, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, Development Studies, etc. in recognition of the convergences (and divergences) that exist between them and Postcolonial Studies, especially in their mutual awareness of history and relations of power. This new direction for the journal will seek to reveal, in the words of Arif  Dirlik, “societies globally in their complex heterogeneity and contingency.” Additionally, with a change in the Editorial Board and a new publisher, the University of Florida Press, now is the most opportune time for us to re-envision and re-task ourselves as the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.

This change is effective with issue 8-1 (Spring 2020).

The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles, interviews, and creative writings on the literatures, the histories, the politics, and the arts whose focus, locales, or subjects involve Britain and other European countries and their former colonies, the now decolonized, independent nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and also Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.