Call For Articles-Transgressive Teaching & Learning: Critical Essays on bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy

Call For  Papers

Almost thirty years after the publication of Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994), bell hooks’ theory of radical engaged pedagogy continues to offer vision and hope for students and pedagogues who find themselves navigating insurgent antiblackness, the ongoing pandemic, and the quotidian violence of the state. For hooks, “education as the practice of freedom,” as she describes it, informs and animates her critical pedagogical praxis—what does it mean to lead others toward freedom, to encourage freedom as an intellectual practice, to practice freedom ourselves as teachers and learners? hooks’ collection of pedagogical strategies and reflections on the practice of freedom works to counter the devaluation of pedagogy, particularly in relation to the teaching of writing, embraces the possibilities of an informed and critical classroom praxis, and centers pleasure in communal learning as an act of resistance. What strategies does hooks offer us to engage the possibility—or even necessity—of pleasure and freedom in classroom spaces, from face-to-face to online to community? In our current era of social distancing, ceaseless intra- and interpersonal anxiety, and political apathy, what does hooks teach us about pedagogical praxes that can help us survive these moments? 

Hooks’ subsequent collections—Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003) and Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2010)—shift the mode to personal reflections on teaching outside of academia and brief “teachings” that center action and activity. By urging us to (re)commit to making revolutionary ideas accessible and “expand our communities of resistance,” hooks reminds us of our imperative to engage with and in public narratives concerning the development of critical ethnic and cultural studies programs that promote justice in education. Framing the exigent need for practical wisdom in our time, hooks’ recollections of her own foray into college education during the civil rights struggle remind us that, even in moments that foment equality in education, old hierarchies of race, class, and gender remain. We recognize this continuing paradox, particularly as our universities scramble to respond to student demands for access, equity, and justice. hooks’ recognition of teaching as a fundamentally political act, and her call for the creation of transformative learning spaces that center counter-hegemonic and anticolonial praxis provides educators with the roadmaps to co-create participatory spaces of self-recovery and collective liberation.

Transgressive Teaching & Learning: Critical Essays on bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy is the first sustained collection of critical essays to engage hooks’ teaching trilogy. This volume seeks to explore how teachers and learners across all educational levels and disciplines, in locations inside and outside of the university, employ hooks’ engaged pedagogical praxes. We seek contributions from both learners and practitioners who actively resist antiblack, imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, abled, cisheteronorative patriarchal pedagogical praxes, and who remain deeply committed to the work of “educat[ing] people to heal this world into what it might become.” In the spirit of hooks’ trilogy, crafted in community across decades with people who inhabit various positionalities within both academic and public learning communities, we invite learner-scholars and teacher-scholars alike to submit proposals for critical chapters on educational praxes (3000-5500 words), personal reflections on pedagogy from learners and practitioners (1500-3000 words), and “teachings” describing pedagogical activities designed to facilitate dialogue following hooks’ idiom in Teaching Critical Thinking and Teaching Community (1000-2000 words).

We especially welcome submissions from emerging and multiply-marginalized learners and scholars; work from community educators and learners in underserved communities; and co-authored essays with students and/or community education justice collectives.

Possible topics include:

• Pedagogies of hope
• Theory as liberatory practice
• Engaged pedagogies
• Anticolonial pedagogies and practices
• Intersectional feminist pedagogies
• Teaching and learning communities
• Eros and pedagogy
• Pedagogies of (self-)care
• Critical thinking & democratic education
• Teaching as “Prophetic Vocation”
• Spirituality and pedagogy
• Feminist/queer pedagogies
• Antiracist praxis
• Affective pedagogies and the politics of emotion
• Pedagogies of love, sorrow, grief, and joy
• Practical wisdom of pedagogy
• Conflict, aggression, fear
• Resistance and revolution
• Disability politics in the classroom

Please send abstract (300 words) and a short author bio (150 words) by May 2nd, 2022 to: bhookscollection@gmail.com. Notification of accepted essays by June 3rd, 2022. Completed pieces due by January 15th, 2023.

Contact Info: 

Maia L. Butler, Assistant Professor of African American Literature at University of North Carolina Wilmington in the Department of English

Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Assistant Professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of North Texas, where she is also affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies

Megan Feifer, Teacher-Scholar in Residence at the bell hooks center at Berea College

 

Contact Email: 

bhookscollection@gmail.com

[Call for Book Proposals] ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF ISLAM (Edinburgh UP)

 Advances in the Study of Islam

Editors: Abbas Aghdassi & Aaron W. Hughes

Edinburgh University Press

 

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

Advances in the Study of Islam welcomes book proposals (scholarly monographs and edited volumes) that focus explicitly on new, original and creative approaches to understand, analyse and critically revisit Islamic studies. The series,

• Highlights both disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches to Islamic studies from religious studies, theology, philosophy, law, history, cultural anthropology and linguistics
• Challenges existing paradigms and norms by providing alternatives for the study of Islam
• Pushes the study of Islam to the forefront of larger conversations in the Humanities and Social Sciences

 

Advances in the Study of Islam will publish cutting-edge research that reflects the long history and geographic breadth of Islam. It seeks to rethink traditional literary canons while simultaneously offering innovative and alternative approaches to push beyond traditional understandings of Islam. The series provides a platform for creative studies spanning:

• Disciplines including religious studies, legal studies, archaeology and anthropology
• Theoretical questions including historical, philological, ethnographic, comparative and redescriptive
• Time periods from late antiquity to the present
• Geographical regions including the so-called Arab World, South Asia, Africa, Iran and the Persian World, Europe and North America

 

WRITE FOR THE SERIES

If you have a proposal suitable for this series, we would love to hear from you. If you have any questions before submitting, or would like to discuss your ideas, please contact the series editors Abbas Aghdassi (aghdassi@um.ac.ir) & Aaron W. Hughes (aaron.hughes@rochester.edu).

Once you’re ready to submit, email your book proposal to Emma House, Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (emma.house@eup.ed.ac.uk).

 

For more information, please, visit: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-advances-in-the-study-of-islam

 

Download the CALL

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Contact Info: 

Abbas Aghdassi, PhD

Contact Email: 

aghdassi@um.ac.ir

URL: 

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-advances-in-the-study-of-islam

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Mapping Global Inequality -Economic Inequality -Published by Springer Nature, United States.

 CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Economic Inequality

Editors-in-Chief:

Rajendra Baikady Ph.D., Department of Social Work, School of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Email: rajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il

Jaroslaw Przeperski Ph.D. Director, Centre for Family Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 

Email: jarek.przeperski@gmail.com

Berch Berberoglu, Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, United States.

Email: berchb@unr.edu

Dear colleagues we invite you to take part in one of the largest editorial projects on Inequality - Mapping Global Inequality - Major Reference Work Book Series being published by Springer Nature, United States.

The Series encompasses several volumes, but we will publish an individual call for contributions to each volume separately. In this call for contributions, we are particularly seeking authors for the volume on Economic Inequality

This volume in the mapping global inequality series aims to provide an understanding and tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze economic inequality within different political, economic, cultural and geographic boundaries. While exploring different aspects of economic inequality we aim to understand the connection between Globalization, Neoliberal Policies and Economic Inequality across the globe. The process of globalization and technological advancement in the 21^st century resulted in unequal distribution of wealth and economic resources between and within different countries and thus leaving a huge number of people experiencing discrimination and unequal treatment. Unequal distribution of economic resources brings inequality and disparities between and within the countries, communities and different population groups which further leads to several social problems. Economic inequality is a concern in almost all countries around the world and often people are trapped in poverty with little chance to climb up the social ladder as they experience lack of resources and opportunities. This volume invites contributions approaching economic inequality at different levels of global society (whether local, regional, national, or transnational) --the micro, meso, and macro.

The volume is multidisciplinary in its approach and encourages scholars to respond to the following four questions:

• What do we know about economic inequality (i.e., what is the definition and perception of inequality)?
• Why is economic inequality still existing in the country and what are the consequences (i.e., root causes from micro, meso or macro level)?
• What are the current trends in economic inequality?

Chapters in this volume will explore how economic resources such as land, labor, capital, and technology are unequally distributed among different population groups and its impact on the overall human development. Further, this will also focus on how economic inequality experienced in a country will affect its progress towards achieving different Sustainable Development Goals. We invite chapters that examine: 

(i) anatomy of economic inequality ; (ii) globalization, labor market and economic inequality; (iii) patterns of globalization, regionalization and their consequences on economic development (iv) analytical and normative responses to globalization; (v) agriculture and economic development in developed countries; (vi) measuring economic inequality; (vii) the influence of the urban informal sector on economic inequality; (viii) identifying and measuring economic discrimination; (ix) role of higher education to reduce inequality in developing countries; (x) skill development and economic development; (xi) trade, foreign investment, and economic inequality in developing countries; (xii) progressive social security programs; (xiii) entrepreneurship, jobs, and economic growth; (xiv) role of policymakers in reducing economic inequality; (xv) technological development, digital transformation, big data, and the future of economic development.

The goal is to gather the best possible contributions in the respective areas and make this reference work as a truly global project. There will be a minimum of 40 chapters from at least 30 countries in this and each volume discussing various aspects of inequality in different socio-political and economic contexts providing a valuable source for researchers, academics and policy makers at both local and global contexts.  Each of the Mapping Global Inequality volumes will also include chapters on cross-country comparison to provide an understanding of similarities and differences in many aspects of inequality across different regions. Additionally,  an exclusive and extensive introductory chapter with an overview of the volume, its scope and comparative understanding of all the contributions will be covered in this and all the other volumes.

Structure of the Volume:

Level of Your Contribution: Our aim is to provide an accessible and exciting handbook for specialists, academicians, advanced students, and readers who are familiar with the field as well as those from other related disciplines.

The size of each chapter that we are expecting will be circa 8000-10,000 words (including the reference list). We are inviting chapters that are critical summaries/synopses (tertiary literature)  rather than original research reports.

We are accepting contributions on a rolling basis and writing and reviewing is scheduled to take place until approximately July 2024 and final proofing between then and the end of the year. The sooner you submit your chapter the sooner it will be published online and citable. Contributions to all the volumes in this series are peer-reviewed. 

Online-First Publication of Chapters: Once the production and proofing loop is completed, the chapter will be published online-first on Springer Nature's online publication webpage SpringerLink http://link.springer.com. At that stage, the article is DOI citable. You will be able to access it via your chapter page on METEOR. As the author of this project, you can also access via METEOR all other online published Springer Nature References.

Please keep in mind: the sooner you send in your manuscript, the sooner it will be published and citable.

Print Publication: The print publication of the volume you contribute to will be finalized once the last chapter of the volume has been reviewed and gone through the production workflow.

Online Update of Chapters: One copy of the published version of your chapter is re-ingested to METEOR for further updates. The chapter opens up for updates again in METEOR and the status of your chapter changes to ‘Open for Submission’. At this time, you can up-load fresh or updated files, if you wish. The updated and approved chapters will be published as a new version in the living reference version of this project.  Editors and authors can submit updates to articles at the pace of the advancement of science.  On behalf of the Editors of Palgrave/Springer Nature, we thank you for your contributions. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you might have.

Interested authors, please send a 250-word abstract and author bio By 25 March 2022,  to Dr. Rajendra Baikady rajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il. Please give the subject header as - Economic Inequality: Chapter proposal. The editorial team members will evaluate the submitted abstracts on a rolling basis and notify the authors along with full chapter submission guidelines.

Qualifications: We recommend that academic authors have, be supervised by, or in pursuit of their Ph.D., whereas non-academic professionals should have at least 3 years of experience in the field.

Full chapter submission Schedule: 

December 25, 2022	June 25, 2023
December 25, 2023	June 25, 2024

 

 

Contact Info: 

Rajendra Baikady Ph.D., Department of Social Work, School of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Email: rajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il

Contact Email: 

rajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il

URL: 

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Economic-Inequality-Major-Reference-Work

Call For Papers: Death, Dying and Diseases: Critical Reflections. Jadavpur University Essays and Studies Vol. 36 (Themed Issue)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme: Death, Dying and Diseases: Critical Reflections

 Jadavpur University Essays and Studies (JUES) Vol. 36 (Themed Issue)

Editors: Dr. Rafat Ali, Dr. Doyeeta Majumder

CALL FOR PAPERS

Death, dying and diseases are some of the most important signs that human civilization, from its earliest days, has struggled to understand. Remembrance of death and warnings about the fleeting nature of earthly life, in comparison to the eternity of a resurrected and regenerated afterlife, have been a foundational aspect of the divine scriptures; and the attempt to find the right response to disease, decay and mortality and their associated emotions of pain, sorrow, loss and suffering have long preoccupied philosophers and poets. From the catharsis of pity and fear in Aristotle, the stoic notions of indifference and transcendence, to the modern western tradition of aestheticizing or sublimating it, as well as the view that such an aesthetic culture can become a crucial component of oppression’s political self-legitimation –  art has had a tricky but greatly responsible role to play in interpreting these signs. How can pain be understood, not aestheticized, as hurt or deprivation without neither passively submitting to oppression nor following one’s individual caprices in wrongly resisting order and justice? If the role of art is not to only aestheticize but connect with the essence of death and suffering, it is also not entirely removed from pleasure if we believe in the dual or paired structure of the created order of things.  So the seeming dichotomies of death/life, pain/pleasure, disease/health, sorrow/ delight and above all ephemerality/eternity become signs to be interpreted with belief in their meaning and coherence, and elicit right action and conduct that need not necessarily be seen in relation to only one aspect of these binaries.

This volume aims to bring together reflections on this subject through the experiential lens of one of the most critical signs of our own times – the coronavirus pandemic, and the role of literature and the other arts in not only eliciting the right response but also right conduct in engaging and coming to terms with it. Crises such as these have not been specific to this age alone but all ages in the past to which philosophers, poets, historians, artists – not to forget the scientists and medical professionals, along with politicians and religious leaders – have all responded in their own ways, all significantly shaping not only the meaning of life but the way in which we perceive it, its outward manifestations as well as its deepest mysteries. We wish to bring together critical reflections on such responses in the near and distant past, along with those in relation to our own near apocalyptic situation, which may extend not only to the pandemic but also the larger and gloomier but not equally hyped ecological crisis that promises complete annihilation and extinction of the human species.

Abstracts, of not more 500 words, for papers are invited from those interested in the above and its related themes listed below (indicative not exclusive).

The idea of life as growth and death as decay, decline and desiccation

Death and regeneration

Pestilence and politics

Pestilence and aesthetics

Pestilence and the human body (including images of the diseased body, medical treatises and texts)

Plague and the law (quarantine laws on land and on sea, epidemic and international law, public health policy in the first world, global south)

Plague and politics (pandemic as the state of exception, knowledge sharing, politics of medical aid)

Plague and gender

Sexuality in the time of contagion

Disease and mourning (individual/collective)

The fear of contagion and its psychological effects

Plague, passion and compassion

Pestilence, death and mental health

Disease and divinity/afterlife

The abstracts along with a brief bio-note should be sent to the following email addresses rafat.ali@jadavpuruniversity  and doyeeta.majumder@jadavpuruniversity.in

 by 28 February 2022.

Call For Articles: Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis) on ‘Women’s Writing from 1900–1920’

 Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis)

  ‘Women’s Writing from 1900–1920’

Guest Edited by Meredith Miller and Joanne Ella Parsons

The period from 1900 to 1920 falls partially into several of the canonical categories used to periodize early twentieth-century  literature, yet is often wholly defined by them. Is this the tail end of the fin de siècle? Should these decades be viewed as a gestational waiting space in which the high modernism of the 1920s would soon develop? Should we view them through the largely masculinist lens of a  war which did not begin until 1914? Each of these frames embodies an  instance of what Raymond Williams termed ‘the selective critical tradition’, rendering huge areas of literary production invisible even as it frames the canon of primary texts which receive the greater majority of our critical attention.

This special issue looks to reframe these first two decades of the twentieth century. In this moment the address of women writers to their readers broadened its focus in a lively publishing landscape. This was a period in which social movements, including the suffrage movement, inspired a wealth of fiction and non-fiction publishing. There was also a tremendous growth in popular weekly magazines in these decades, including new story magazines, many aimed at working women, theirdesires, and their practical needs. Women novelists wrote for a whole group of new publishers taking advantage of new methods of book production and distribution and new cultures of review. In the present moment examinations of each of these phenomena are often divided by disciplinary boundaries and/or underexamined altogether.

We seek to reframe these decades by collecting a group of essays which does not conform to dominant critical periods of study or divisions ofcultural register, but which allows critics and researchers to see a clearer picture of the whole landscape of women’s writing during this pivotal moment in the history of women’s work and social participation.

We welcome essays on

•       Periodical Culture

•       Poetry

•       All types of fiction and non-fiction

We are very much open to hearing from researchers working in any genre and theme which they feel could add to and broaden our critical understanding of literature these decades.

We also welcome suggestions for reviews and reviewers for this special issue of the journal.

Deadline

Please submit 500 word abstracts and a brief biography for consideration to Meredith Miller (Cardiff University) MillerM4@cardiff.ac.uk and

Joanne Ella Parsons (Falmouth University) jo.parsons@falmouth.ac.uk by 1st April 2022. 

Completed articles are expected to be between 5000¬–7000 words and will be due 1st September 2022.

Contributors should follow the journal’s house style details of which are to be found on the Women’s Writing web site http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0999082.asp. This is the new MLA. Do note that instead of footnotes, we use endnotes with NO bibliography. All bibliographical information is included in the endnotes i.e. place of publication, publisher and date of publication in brackets on first citation of a book.

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Dr. Joanne Ella Parsons, PhD

Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture book series with Edinburgh

University Press (with Ruth Heholt)

_The Victorian Male Body  _(co-edited with Ruth Heholt)

The Wilkie Collins Journal (editor)

Revenant Journal (Assistant Editor)

www.joanneparsons.co.uk

www.damagingthebody.org