06/12/2023
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the book 'Feminism, LGBTI+ and Hope in a Turbulent Era' co-edited by TechnAct Research Cluster members Mia Liinason, Onur Kilic and Sama Koshravi Ooryad. You can find the details below.
Abstract deadline: 30/1-24
Chapter deadline: 30/6-24
Expected publication date: December 2024
At present, scholars argue that we are experiencing a conjunctural crisis in which different social, economic, ideological and political contradictions are at work against each other. Researchers recognize how present times have given rise to a global resurgence of antidemocratic forces, including right-wing populism, fascism, neo-fascism, authoritarianism, autocracy and illiberalism. Yet, amidst the rise of the right in diverse local and global contexts, feminist, q***r and trans+ collectives appear to tackle emergent and recurrent challenges from ultra-conservative, right-wing and anti-gender collectives to women’s and LGBTI+ lives and liveabilities.
This edited volume invites chapters that draw on various types of ethnographic, empirical and theoretical approaches, with the aim of contributing novel analyses of the function of and conditions for hope in political struggles in times of turbulence, constraint and despair.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• What dynamics and varieties of hope emerge in feminist and/or LGBTI+ events in various locales, including notions of hopelessness in authoritarian times?
• How is the risk of romanticizing or sentimentalizing notions of hope challenged or reinscribed
in feminist and/or LGBTI+ collectives and events, locally and/or transnationally?
• How are postcolonial/decolonial politics and practices of hope expressed in local contexts and transnational travels?
• How can unexpected times, places and/or relationships of hope appear?
• How is hope as a social and political virtue enacted in diverse, local and transnational sites?
• What can theorizations of hope as a virtue contribute to our understandings and to feminist and q***r enactments?
• Under what conditions are we un-/able to hope? What are the limits and possibilities of hope in times of despair, pain and fear, in times of militarized aggression, conflicts and war?
• Could digital platforms be considered spaces of hope or spaces of dystopia for feminist and LGBTI+ subjects and collectives?
• What insights can a more inclusive and alternative notion of politics bring to the turbulent times of today, and to feminist and LGBTI+ subjectivities, collectives and events?
• What insights can the messy approaches to affect, blurring neat distinctions between different political formations, bring to analyses of our complex contemporary conjuncture?
• How does translation, as both a cultural and a linguistic tool, work as a method to build alliances and/or develop knowledges across feminist and LGBTI+ movements in various spaces?
We invite abstracts of 150–200 words. Abstract deadline January 30, 2024. Welcome with your submission!
Please send your abstracts to one of the co-editors email;
Onur Kilic [email protected]
Sama Koshravi Ooryad [email protected]
Mia Liinason [email protected]
