Publication Opportunity: Call for Chapters for an edited Open Access volume Bodies, Gender, Identities

 

Call for Chapters for an edited Open Access volume Bodies, Gender, Identities

Dear Colleagues,

We have just published a Call for Chapters for an edited Open Access volume Bodies, Gender, Identities, which is to appear as Vol. 3 in our newly established Olomouc Asian Studies publication series. If you are working on any issue related to the titular themes while focusing on Asian cultures and societies or their diasporic manifestations, please see the call below or via this link.

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• Publication series: Olomouc Asian Studies, Vol. III
• Publisher: Palacký University Olomouc
• Type of publication: Open Access (with DOI given to each chapter) & Print on Demand
• Language of publication: English
• Fields: Humanities and Social Sciences
• Expected publication date: Summer 2024 (no publication fees)

The aim of this publication is to establish a dialogue between different approaches to its titular theme, Bodies, Gender, Identities, with a focus on all Asian cultures and societies as well as their diasporic manifestations. We welcome contributions that address any issue related to the theme, such as the variety of experiences of lived bodies; the governance of life; embodiment and affect; gendered experiences; gender diversity and sexualities; language and bodies/gender/identities; performance and the construction of identities; human life and the environment; social and cultural practices concerning birth and death, food, spirituality, love and intimacy, pain, etc.

We invite both synchronic and diachronic perspectives from anthropology, the arts, cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, religion studies, sociology, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. We also welcome interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary investigations. Whether grounded in a specific discipline or moving across and beyond disciplinary boundaries, we hope all contributions will display a conscious engagement with theories of embodiment, biopolitics, gender, identity, suffering, and so forth.

The volume follows up on the 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies organized by the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, but is open to any thematically relevant submission. We are interested in any original work of research that has not been previously published elsewhere.

Submission procedure

In order to collect chapters for this volume, we first invite extended abstracts in English. The abstracts should be emailed to olas@upol.cz as a PDF file. The file should include the title of the paper, full name, affiliation, e-mail address, five keywords, and an extended abstract, which must be 700–1,000 words long. The abstract submission deadline is May 14, 2023. Decisions on the abstracts will be sent by June 18, 2023.

The submission deadline for full papers based on the accepted abstracts is August 31, 2023. The required length of the full papers is approximately 10–11,000 words (excluding references, tables, etc. from the word count). The papers will subsequently undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process by at least two reviewers. We estimate to be able to send out the decisions on all papers by the end of 2023. The expected publication date is summer 2024.

Any questions can be addressed to olas@upol.cz. 

We are looking forward to your submissions!

Contact Info: 

Halina Zawiszová

Contact Email: 

olas@upol.cz

Call for Book Chapters: "Postcoloniality, Indigenousness, and National Consciousness in Select Literature(s) and Film(s)"

 

Call For Book Chapters:

We invitee book-chapter proposals for a forthcoming interdisciplinary volume on the subject of "Postcoloniality, Indigenousness, and National Consciousness in Select Literature(s) and Film(s)" under the consideration of Vernon Press.

 

‘National consciousness’ and careful registering of so-called ‘indigenousness’ are two important features which seem to have found their easy but steady ways into novels, poetry, and numerous films produced all over the world, following the conclusion of the First World War. On the one hand, the imperialists have used them to assert and sustain their identity as colonisers; on the other, in countries of Africa and in India, these became significant postcolonial features which, in turn, led to an increased struggle to gain independence from imperialist domination. The situation seems to be little different even in the post-Second World War-world. Currently, writers and filmmakers have found completely newer means to assert their indigenousness, which include restructuring of myths and retelling of old tales of battles and struggles. These have significantly contributed to the pronounced postcoloniality of the present century.

The proposed anthology of critical writings aims to collect essays which focus on how national consciousness and expression of indigenousness have come to be regularly explored in post-1918 (a) English Literature and Films; (b) American Literature and Films; (c) Australian Literature and Films; (d) African Literatures in English and Films; and (e) Indian English writings and Indian movies.

 

If you are interested in contributing to the book, please submit your abstract (200-220 words), and biography (100 words, affiliation research field and 3-4 publication list) by 15th May 2022 to the book-editor Prof. (Dr.) Pinaki Roy, monkaaroy@gmail.com, with C.C. to pinaki@raiganjuniversity.ac.in

If you are accepted, we will ask you to consider the following publication details:

Deadline for full article: 31st August 2022

Length: 6,500 - 8,500 words including endnotes and bibliography,

Style: M.L.A.-style of citations (preferably as per the specifications of M.L.A. 6th edition)

Submission: monkaaroy@gmail.com, with C.C. to pinaki@raiganjuniversity.ac.in

Contact Info: Prof. (Dr.) Pinaki Roy

Contact Email: monkaaroy@gmail.com

 

Call for Book Chapters: Gender Justice - Women’s Rights and Equity

The book provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide; it also examines women’s political representation and participation in peace processes in the context of their community, emphasizing existing cultural norms with biases, questioning societal prejudices toward women, for example, in STEM and creative economies. The volume covers several domains presenting a wide range of important issues that demonstrate gender inequality, discussing a wide range of cultural and geographical realities. The collection also analyzes how female empowerment can benefit from changing the status quo and improving economic and collective action opportunities, as well as how governments could act and whether it should interfere with public policy to alter different norms and practices that hinder women’s participation and active involvement globally. Other meaningful topics that are covered in the book are the presentation of historic(al) case studies in the field of women in art, and as political leaders—while examining global gender dynamics and power hierarchies operating locally and internationally, posing challenges as well as opportunities, perpetuating gender gaps and economic stagnation. Furthermore, the book concentrates on global policy development and advancing global social justice. The contributors focus on developed country parties, upper-middle-income country parties, also analyzing less developed economies. Is economic development enough to eradicate gender inequality? By February 28, please send your CV and abstract to co-editors: Dr. Elena Shabliy eshabliy@g.harvard.edu and/or Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin dkurochkin@fas.harvard.edu.

Topics covered in the book include:

• Women & Business
• Women & Creative Economies
• Women & Peace Processes
• Women in Sport
• Women in STEM
• Gender (In)Equality
• Equality & Equity
• Policy
• Social Justice
• Gender Justice

 

Contact Info: 

Dr. Dmitry Kurochkin, Researcher at Harvard University, dkurochkin@fas.harvard.edu

Dr. Elena Shabliy, Visiting Researcher at Boston University, eshabliy@g.harvard.edu

Contact Email: dkurochkin@fas.harvard.edu

URL: https://www.palgrave.com

EPW Publication Call For Papers: -Revisiting Debates on Marxism and Ecology: Towards a new paradigm in Political Ecology

 

Revisiting Debates on Marxism and Ecology: Towards a new paradigm in Political Ecology

CALL FOR PAPERS and PHOTO ESSAYS

EPW Engage invites papers on the theme concerning debates on Marxism and Ecology. Marxian corpus on this question has remained untouched for a long time. It was only after the intervention of John Bellamy Foster in early 2000 that this debate was reinvigorated. In contemporary times this question has been framed in the light of the recent climate crisis.  Certain strands within Marxism due to an adherence to crude forms of economic determinism has somewhat ignored the pertinent question of ecology. This is despite the fact that categories or terms like economics and ecology share a common genealogy and roots.

The perceptive debate initiated by Engels in Dialectics of Nature; in which he sees the existence of nature and society as one metabolic process which exists in continuity. In other words, the processes unfolding in the social setting have a parallel in nature. This guides the course of social and natural evolution which can be explored in the light of contemporary understanding of ecology and society.  According to Marx, “capitalist production…disturbs the metabolic interaction between man and the earth, i.e. it prevents the return to the soil of its constituent elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; hence it hinders the operation of the eternal natural condition for the lasting fertility of the soil”. It can thus be argued that a certain sort of ecological understanding was inherent in Marx's original frame as is seen in the concept of metabolic rift and social ecology and as highlighted by Marxist naturalists like Richard Lewontin and scholars from Monthly Review School like John Bellamy Foster. Metabolic rift largely propounds the irrevocable damage inflicted on nature and agriculture by industrial capitalist development. According to Foster Marx’s “entire dialectical framework rested on what would today be called an ecological (or socioecological) systems theory, connecting the materialist conception of history to that of nature—and requiring continuing study not only of changing developments in human history, but also in natural history (which in Marx’s work took the form of extensive inquiries into geology, agronomy, chemistry, physics, biology, physiology, mathematics, and more).”

Now, the question that ensues from this discourse is that can this have a bearing on the questions germane to the Indian context like that of ecology and caste or different environmental conceptions and their link with caste and class in the Indian context? Can this Marxist discourse fundamentally deal with the complex question of caste, class and its interplay with ecology? Lastly, it would be an attempt to explore the theoretical debates and their implications on environmental policies. 

Sub-Themes

1.    Discourse on Political ecology: Understanding different paradigms on Nature/Value and Ethics. This particular sub-theme will explore different approaches to Political Ecology and the accompanying questions regarding ethics/morality and its interplay with nature.

2.  Revisiting Debates on Marxism, Ecology and Development.  This sub-theme would highlight the nuanced debates within the Marxian oeuvre, concerning ecology and its complex interaction with social and economic domains. It will specifically revisit the debate on the Marxian concept of metabolic rift.

3.   Understanding the complexities of Caste/Class and Environment. This section covers the complex interaction between castes/class dynamics and environment. It will further accentuate the common assertion of different environmentalism based on caste/class stratification.

4.    Philosophical underpinnings of Environmental Policies: Towards a New Framework. This section will explore the limitations of the contemporary environmental policy framework, especially its lack of engagement with the theoretical and philosophical debates concerning the environment.

5.  Conceptualizing Alternative Futures: Towards a Radical Ecological Democracy in India.  This sub-theme will focus on envisioning a future that radically departs from the contemporary dualistic thinking(which reifies nature and denaturalizes culture), that gets manifested in obsolete environmental policies and paradigms in India, in which the spheres of nature, social, political and economic are seen as separated from each other.

Important Information

Word limit: 2500-3500 words 

Deadline: 21st February 2022

Please refer to the submission guidelines here: https://www.epw.in/notes-contributors-epw-engage 

Send your articles to edit@epw.in with ‘EPW-Engage- Marxism and Ecology’ in the subject line.

 

Contact Info: 

Divya Jyoti- divya@epw.in   +918447301470

Priyam Mathur- priyam@epw.in

Contact Email: divya@epw.in

Call For Papers: The Girl in the Hijab : An Interdisciplinary Journal-Girlhood Studies

An Interdisciplinary Journal

The Girl in the Hijab

Call for Papers

Although hijab has long been a Western cultural fixation, in the past few years the girl in the hijab has been in the sociopolitical spotlight. With the hijab being the most visible way to identify and be identified as Muslim, those who wear it experience the world in unique ways. The experiences of girls and young women in hijab are undoubtedly shaped by intersectional experiences (Collins 2015) under interlocking systems of domination (hooks 2015).

 

In part enacted by Islamophobia that operates as a global meta-narrative and through localized discourses, laws, and systems (Bakali 2016), violence against women and girls in hijab is further entangled in being gendered; it operates through power and discourse institutionalized by laws such as Bill 21 in Quebec and similar measures in France. Such institutional acts wed “save the Muslim girl” narratives that position Muslim girls and women as oppressed victims in need of rescue, to the controlling images of the suspicious Other in the form of the “save us from the Muslim girl” (Saleh 2021: 2) narratives. Violence has also been enacted overtly through hate crimes, evidenced most recently in the Canadian attacks on mainly young Black hijabi women in Alberta and the murder of a Muslim family in Ontario, as well as through violence in schools such as happened in Virginia, US, when a peer, in assaulting a Muslim girl, pulled off her hijab. Research on Islamophobia to date has been heavily focused on experiences of Muslim youth in the contexts of imperialism and white supremacy, while intersectional perspectives that consider the unique and nuanced experiences of hijabi girlhood are scarcer. Although the hijabi girl is often the location whereon white supremacist, imperialist, and patriarchal violence is enacted, she is also a possible site of resistance in her countering expressions of power through everyday actions and activist engagement.

 

In this special issue of Girlhood Studies, we invite articles based on a range of methodological approaches to investigate the multidimensional, interdisciplinary, and intersectional experiences of girls and young women who wear the hijab and/ or identify as hijabi. We particularly encourage articles that investigate hijabi girls as political actors who practice resistance to systemic domination. Articles may include empirical research, case studies, autoethnographic experiences, and artistic representations in addition to theoretical or methodological insights. Along with conventional articles and visual essays, alternative contributions such as a very short screenplay or piece of fiction, poetry, or lyrics will be considered, as will material produced by those who identify as girls and young women.

 

Articles are invited to respond to questions such as:

• How do the intersections of gender and race shape girls’ experiences of wearing the hijab in various contexts?
• How do dominant political forces (patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism) and their intersections shape the Muslim and hijabi girl experience?
• What are the complex “controlling images” (see the title of Patricia Hill Collins’s (1991) work) of hijabi girls that operate in the social world, and what are the implications for Muslim girls and women?
• How do Muslim and hijabi girls practice resistance and broadly defined activism (Vanner and Dugal 2020)?
• How do Muslim and hijabi girls experience and resist gender-based and sexual violence?
• How does the narrative of the “good Muslim” (Saleh 2019: 243) affect hijabi girls’ lives?
• How are Muslim girls (hijabi and non-hijabi) at various intersecting identities portrayed across different media (social, TV, film) platforms?
• What types of images and narratives of hijabi girls dominate in influencer culture across various social media platforms?
• What are the unique experiences of girls who wear the hijab in education systems and/or in health systems?

 

This special issue is to be guest edited by Salsabel Almanssori and Muna Saleh. Please direct inquiries to Salsabel Almanssori at thegirlinthehijab.gsj@gmail.com.

 

Salsabel Almanssori, who has worked as a middle-school teacher for the past seven years, is a doctoral candidate and instructor at the Faculty of Education and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor. In her interdisciplinary dissertation research, she uses narrative inquiry to investigate the intersections between and among feminist theory, teacher education, and gender-based and sexual violence. Her most recent peer-reviewed articles shed light on girls’ use of digital public pedagogy as a medium of resistance to rape culture in a post #MeToo world, and student perspectives on gender-based violence in education. Hijabi girlhood is an integral part of her personal lived experience.

 

Muna Saleh is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton (CUE), former elementary and secondary school teacher, and the author of Stories We Live and Grow By: (Re)Telling Our Experiences as Muslim Mothers and Daughters (2019). Drawing on her experiences as an intergenerational survivor of violent Palestinian displacement and as a caregiver to a child with a dis/ability, her most recent research includes a narrative inquiry alongside Muslim mothers of children with dis/abilities who arrived in Canada with refugee experiences.

 

Article Submission

Abstracts are due by 15 June 2022 and should be sent to thegirlinthehijab.gsj@gmail.com.

 

Full manuscripts are due by 15 November 2022. Authors should provide a cover page giving brief biographical details (up to 100 words), institutional affiliation(s) and full contact information, including an email address.

 

Articles may be no longer than 6,500 words including the abstract (up to 125 words), keywords (6 to 8 in alphabetical order), notes, captions and tables, acknowledgments (if any), biographical details (taken from the cover page), and references. Images in a text count for 200 words each. Authors are responsible for securing copyright for any images used.

 

Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, follows Berghahn’s preferred house style, a modified Chicago Style. Please refer to the Style Guide online: journals.berghahnbooks.com/_uploads/ghs/girlhood-studies_style_guide.pdf

 

For more information, please see www.berghahnjournals.com/girlhood-studies.