Call for papers: Feminist philosophy and pornography

Zij die nog verder willen reflecteren over het thema feminisme en pornografie, moeten zeker even de onderstaande call for papers lezen, waarin het symposium rond Feministische Filosofie en Pornografie aan de Humboldt Universiteit aangekondigd wordt. Tijdens dit symposium zal niet alleen ingegaan worden op de taalfilosofische en legale aspecten van pornografie, maar zullen ook de thema's van pornografie & epistemologie en esthetica kritisch onder de loep genomen worden.

 

Zie hieronder de volledige call for papers:

Call for Papers: Politics at the intersection

Aangezien intersectionaliteit en het kruispuntdenken meer dan ooit centraal staan in het feministische gedachtegoed en de feministische praktijk, wordt het belang van deze thema's ook op academisch en politiek vlak vaker benadrukt.

 













Zo organiseren de Belgische en Nederlandse Political Science Associations in samenwerking met de Universiteit Gent op 30 en 31 mei 2013 de 12de Belgisch-Nederlandse Political Science Conference. Met deze conferentie wil men politiek wetenschappers samenbrengen om het al bestaande wetenschappelijk onderzoek over deze thema's te analyseren, te bespreken en verder in kaart te brengen.
 

Nederlandstalige of Engelstalige abstracts van 250 woorden, samen met 5 sleutelwoorden en een kort biografisch document van 2 regels kunnen doorgestuurd worden naar Sara de Jong (Universität Wien) en LizaMügge (Universiteit van Amsterdam).
 

Zie hieronder ook het oorspronkelijke bericht dat ons bereikte via de nieuwsbrief van ATGENDER.

This session seeks to bring together Flemish and Dutch research on politics from two hitherto separate interdisciplinary strands of scholarship: Gender Studies and Migration and Ethnic Studies. Political scientists working on migration and ethnicity or gender often address comparable questions about the inclusion or exclusion of either women or migrants and ethnic minorities in politics. They focus on power structures, participation, inequality and the politics of representation and use similar concepts, such as political opportunity structure, identity politics, and discrimination. Moreover, both strands of research are concerned with the functioning of categories in their analyses (e.g. citizenship, race, ethnicity, gender). Despite overlapping research agendas, a constructive dialogue between Gender Studies and Migration and Ethnic Studies is largely absent.

Key contemporary topics that traditionally are under scrutiny in Migration and Ethnic Studies or Gender Studies, such as the headscarf debate, questions of integration and participation, and gender equality, can no longer be understood from an ethnicity or gender perspective alone. Both fields need to extend their conceptual, explanatory and interpretative frameworks and acknowledge conceptual and theoretical developments across the fields, such as intersectionality and the critique of methodological nationalism.

We invite contributors to take up what we consider to be future challenges for political science: (1) to mainstream intersectional analysis; (2) to be critical of the construction of taken-for-granted categories and the way such ‘fixed’ categories are influenced by nation-states; (3) to develop new mix-method toolkits to make this exercise feasible. This section welcomes theoretical and empirical papers that reflect on political issues, policies and themes at the intersection of different categories. We also invite papers that consider how conceptual and/or analytical frameworks from the different fields of Gender Studies and Migration and Ethnic Studies can be synthesised.

Feminist Review: Call for Papers - Revolution

 

De academische reflecties op hedendaagse politieke en sociale transities en revoluties zijn in de maak, zo ook de feministische analyses. Een voorbeeld is het bekende tijdschrift Feminist Review, dat een oproep voor artikels heeft verspreid voor een aankomend themanummer getiteld 'Revolutions'.

Het themanummer wil specifiek de vraag stellen naar revoluties en gender. Interessant daarbij is dat de gastredacteuren het concept revolutie zelf ook aan analyse willen onderwerpen: wat verstaan we onder 'revolutie', en hoe stelt dit ons in staat om bepaalde gebeurtenissen al dan niet in kaart te brengen, te analyseren en te begrijpen? Hoe kunnen we revoluties en transformaties op het vlak van gender verhoudingen leren begrijpen op het relationeel vlak - in termen van fantasieen, verlangens, strategieen en praktijken?

Revolution: call for articles and open space pieces for Feminist Review, special issue, no. 106, February 2014.

"Revolutions as a deliberately open special issue title references revolution as a phenomenon, social movement or form of transformation both contemporarily and historically. The editors are particularly interested in highlighting the difference it makes to the theory or practice of revolution to consider gender, or to gender to consider ‘revolution’. We want to ask not so much ‘what about the women?’ (although this remains an important question), but ‘what kind of revolution can or cannot attend to gender relations?’ The title also references changes that might be made in the world that might not usually be thought of as revolutionary, and our plural form revolutions stresses both different forms (including counterrevolution) and the effects of and contests within revolutionary practices. Where does activism end and revolution begin? How might that distinction itself be gendered?

In this special issue, we hope to explore the gendered nature of revolutions of a variety of kinds, some but not all of which might also be called feminist, and to situate the question of revolutions in historical and cultural context, making it a question rather than a presumption: revolutions? Revolutions as a term has a further openness that may not reference recent or past social movements, even where contested. It may refer to the transformation or return (in altered form) of ideas, to the phrase that ‘what goes around comes around’. In this sense our pluralisation resists an easy periodisation of revolution as well as the assumption that we already know what a revolution is when we see one, what makes a revolution gendered or feminist, or who its proper subject is. Revolution is always a relationship, always one with actors who exchange fantasies and desires as well as strategies and practices."

Zie voor verder informatie over deze call for papers de website van het tijdschrift:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/index.html

JUST FOOD: Bioethics, Gender, and the Ethics of Eating (call for papers)

 

"Western ethics rarely makes eating a main theme. Food belongs to the often invisible domain of women’s labor. While obesity, malnourishment, and lack of access to clean water are regularly cited as global factors in mortality and morbidity, bioethics, even feminist bioethics, gives little attention to culinary practices, water rights, or agricultural policy or to their effects on the status of women and the health of communities.

What and how we eat determines not only our health, but also our relation to other animals, the forms of social life, the gender division of labor, and the integrity of the environment. If hunger is the hallmark of poverty, obesity and obesity-related diseases are ironically afflicting the poor at alarming rates. Hunger also attends war, violence, and catastrophic environmental events; thus, thinking ethically about food engages issues of war and peace, as well as calling into question the global dependence on fossil fuels. Food can reflect social inequity or economic independence and social justice. It can preserve cultural integrity or yield to the homogenizing force of global capital. Food encompasses the full range of issues arising at the intersection of health and justice.

Activism and Academica - Call for papers: the Graduate Journal of Social Sciences

The Conditions of Praxis: Theory and Practice in Activism and Academia

Is there a tension between academia and activism, often conflated with a supposed divide between theory and practice, the abstract and the material, the scientific and the political? How do the relations of activism and academia belie this chain of binary oppositions? With the burgeoning focus on human rights, animal studies, green studies, queer theory, crip/ disability theory, critical whiteness/"race" studies, feminism/women's/ gender studies, and more generally anti-oppression and activist-based research in academia, the need to explore how and why these junctures are shifting emerges along the lines of activist practices.
 

Inspired by the debates opened up by the 8th European Feminist Research Conference: The Politics of Location Revisited, this special edition seeks to explore the nuanced interactions and intersections of theory and practice, political engagement and knowledge production. If the ostensible separation of theory and praxis is a tool of domination, how can the tension among activism and academia be critically approached without privileging either side or conflating their differences? In an effort to explore ways of practising theory, we strive to broaden the scope of these inquiries, asking about diverse forms of social justice work and political movements, and therefore invite submissions from activists and academics working in various fields.