Call for Papers: #Feminist Health #Humanities - The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities

 In 2022, the Journal of Medical Humanities announced its intention to re-focus its content on the nascent subject of health humanities, and in 2023, NYU Press published Keywords for Health Humanities, collectively signaling a change in disciplinary trajectory to the medical humanities community. The field’s re-configuration of nomenclature, which also includes critical medical humanities and narrative medicine, reflects its evolution and expansion according to the impetuses of inclusivity and accessibility. “Health,” as Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald note in the introduction to Keywords, “is a site in which the social and global inequities of the world are writ large.” Health allows us a wider lens through which to approach lived experience and affords us the ability to draw on a fuller range of theoretical frames and nuanced interpretations as we attend to social justice.

In this issue of the Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities, we are soliciting articles that broadly address feminist health humanities. Feminism challenges oppression and bias, calls for intersectional analysis, and tests epistemological formations. We are curious about what feminism’s intellectual traditions and critical approaches bring to the health humanities and how feminist methodologies challenge or change medical practices or knowledge. A non-exhaustive list of topics manuscripts might address includes:

• How could healthcare change when informed by a justice-oriented or feminist lens, particularly when women’s reproductive healthcare is often a political site of resistance and strife?
• How can the health humanities inform or reflect approaches from other feminist perspectives such as critical race theory, disability studies, madness studies, etc.?
• How does feminist data science work towards closing the gender data gap (in medicine, the sciences, and other disciplines)?
• What do under-studied narratives – from patients, medical practitioners, encounters between Eastern and Western medicines, etc. – bring to our understanding of the health humanities?
• Can we find feminism in our historical approaches and encounters to the health humanities, which have informed our contemporary understanding of the field?
• How do body technologies, medical procedures, or pharmaceuticals shape our encounters with health, the body, the mind, and gender?

Submission Guidelines

Contributions that adhere to the Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities’ general aims and scope will be considered. Authors who wish to contribute to the upcoming issue should upload their manuscripts here:

 https://so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJIIH/about/submissions

The journal does not have a strict word limit, but we recommend manuscripts be in the range of 5000-7000 words, excluding footnotes and references. The manuscript must include an abstract no longer than 150 words. References must follow APA style. Manuscripts should be uploaded no later than January 15, 2024.

For futher information, please contact the guest-editors Nicole Infanta Keller, Chiang Mai University (nicole.keller@cmu.ac.th) or Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Georgetown University (lhartm13@jhu.edu).

The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities is an academic peer-reviewed journal published by Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Humanities. The journal “...aims to promote the importance of interdisciplinary studies and the coalescence between humanities and other areas such as science – be it natural-, social-, or applied science, economics, and business administration. The journal publishes interdisciplinary papers, bridging the gap between humanities and other disciplines, and emphasizing the critical role of humanities in any fields of study’s discussion and innovation

Contact Information

Soren Ivarsson, Co-editor in chief, Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities

Contact Email

soren.i@cmu.ac.th

URL

https://so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJIIH

CALL FOR CHAPTERS The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora-Lexington Press

 SEEKING CHAPTER PROPOSALS FOR EDITED VOLUME-

Description

To be submitted to Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, this edited collection The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora focuses on the historical and contemporary issues faced by Caribbean immigrants of Asian descent in the Caribbean diaspora, particularly, but not exclusively in the global north. Chapters will center and include Indo-Caribbean, Chinese-Caribbean, Javanese-Caribbean, Japanese-Caribbean, and other Asian-Caribbean immigrant groups and communities in diasporic spaces. It is of course foregrounded by the legacies of indentureship, contract labor, and later migrations to the greater Caribbean region, such as the migration of Japanese migrants to the Dominican Republic in the 1950s, to now interrogate the movement of such beyond Caribbean borders. It seeks to expand our notion of the Caribbean diaspora which is often cast in very specific ways, so as to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean diaspora. It seeks to be both descriptive, while also countering a limited discourse on the Caribbean diaspora.

 

Your book chapter could contribute to one or more of the following topics as it relates to Asian-Caribbean immigrant groups and communities in the Caribbean diaspora:

• Identity formation – race, ethnicity and racialization/racial group consciousness
• Experiences and understandings of anti-Blackness and Blackness
• Experiences of racism, discrimination, anti-Asian hate
• Mixedness, and mixed-race identities
• The politics of transnational identity and transnational attachments
• Religion, religious practice, religious spaces and material culture
• Cultural production
• Language and assimilation
• Gender, sex, and sexuality
• Notion of homeland
• Political behavior/practices
• Differences between the first and second generation, widely speaking
• Caribbeanization of diasporic spaces
• Visibility, census, data disaggregation, cultural alienation
• Oral histories and ethnographies
• Literature and literary intersections

Interested contributors are hereby invited to submit their chapter proposals of between 250 and 300 words, and a brief bio of 250 words on, or before December 15, 2023 to the editor, Aleah N. Ranjitsingh: Aleah.Ranjitsingh03@brooklyn.cuny.edu

 

A detailed publication schedule will be provided after negotiations with the publishers

 Submission Deadline – December 15th, 2023

Notification of selection – January 15th, 2023

Full Chapters Due – May 30th, 2024

 

Editor

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)

Contact Information

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D. - Aleah.Ranjitsingh03@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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