USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Revolutions: Call for Papers for Feminist Review Special Issue

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From: "Karim.Murji" <Karim.Murji@open.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:53:14 +0100
Subject: Re: Revolutions: Call for Papers for Feminist Review Special Issue
To: BSA-THEORY-STUDY-GROUP@jiscmail.ac.uk

Dear all,

please see below the call for paper for Feminist Review journal. Could
you please circulate it to anyone you think might be interested or
drop me an email in case you know of people I need to contact. We are
looking for individual and collective contributions as well as
academic and more generic articles such as reflections, manifestos ecc
(for the Open Space section).

Thanks a lot
Rutvica
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Revolutions: Call for Articles and Open Space pieces for Feminist
Review Special Issue, No. 106, February 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

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.

Themes under this framework may include but are not limited to the following:

* Interrogations of the concepts of 'revolution' and 'feminist revolution'
* Case studies theorizing gender and revolution in original ways
* Innovative theoretical and historical approaches to gender and revolution
* Intersectional, transnational and/or comparative approaches to
(en)gendering revolution
* Engagement with gendered symbolization within revolutions, including
masculinity and femininity, motherhood, fatherhood and nation
* The impact and affects of revolution, including feelings of rage,
disillusionment, joy, and forms of attachment
* Inclusion and exclusion of particular bodies (e.g. racialised and
queer) in revolutionary movements/ moments
* Counter-revolution and post-revolution, their impact on e.g. women's
participation and gender relations
* Revolutionary icons, their roles and relations to e.g. race, gender and class
* Interrogation of the subject and object of revolution

Special Issue Editors: Carrie Hamilton, Clare Hemmings and Rutvica Andrijasevic

Deadline for first drafts of papers marked clearly 'REVOLUTIONS'
submitted online and following Feminist Review guidelines by: Friday,
14 December 2012.

The editors are happy to discuss possible papers informally with
potential contributors. Please contact:
c.hamilton@roehampton.ac.uk<mailto:c.hamilton@roehampton.ac.uk><mailto:c.hamilton@roehampton.ac.uk>;c.hemmings@lse.ac.uk<mailto:c.hemmings@lse.ac.uk><mailto:c.hemmings@lse.ac.uk>;r.andrijasevic@le.ac.uk<mailto:r.andrijasevic@le.ac.uk><mailto:r.andrijasevic@le.ac.uk>


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