[ecrea] CFP ex aequo Journal nº35 "Intersectionality, Communication And Culture: Crossovers Matrices Of Oppression And Privilege"

*ex æquo Journal nº35*

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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​"Intersectionality, Communification And Culture: Crossovers Matrices Of 
Oppression And Privilege”

*Guest Editors:*

Carla Cerqueira (CECS, University of Minho and Lusophone University of 
Oporto) &**Sara Isabel Magalhães  (CPUP, University of Porto)**

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*Deadline:*

31^st  October 2016 (for publication in May 2017)

(*/_Double-Blind Peer Review_/* and Indexed at */SciELO Citation Index/* 
& */Catálogo Latindex/*. Referenced by*/CAPES/Brasil/,* */Virtual 
Library of Women's History/* & */Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books/*)

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Gender and/or Feminist Communication and Culture Studies begin to show a 
strong consolidation at the academia, whether at an International level 
or in the Portuguese context. In this area of research it is 
increasingly important to deconstruct a social categorization that 
promotes and reifies asymmetries of power, the single axis and universal 
gender thinking; and seek to question matrices of domination and 
subordination, inequalities and privileges.

The thematic dossier presented here aims to compile theoretical, 
methodological and empirical proposals focused in the area of 
communication and culture, based on a intersectional position (Crenshaw, 
1991; Nogueira, 2011, 2013; May, 2014; McCall, 2005). This perspective 
is meant to emphasize the existence of multiple axes of inequality; 
still it is not limited to the mere addition of categories, but the 
interlacing with gender - although not a hierarchical matrix (May, 2014) 
- which is proposed as part of a political promotion of equality, 
citizenship and of the democratic system (McCall, 2005; Nogueira, 2011, 
2013).

Therefore this call for papers invites the submission of proposals from 
different disciplines of national, international and/or comparative 
scope, seeking to rebut singular and delimited categorical approaches, 
which clearly adopt stances of under- or over- group inclusion and thus 
ignore concrete experiences of individuals who position themselves at 
the intersection of various social groups (Crenshaw, 2002). Thus, we 
intend to reflect on the study of communication and culture starting 
from a broad proposal, theoretical and policy, which aims to escape the 
social matrix that "subject intersectionality to epistemic forms of 
domination that aims to deconstruct" (May, 2014, 95). Noteworthy, 
finally, the importance of looking at the communication and culture in 
its many variants as elements / deconstruction instruments hierarchies 
of personhood by promoting closer representations of individual 
idiosyncrasies; but also stimulating a literacy promotion for the 
sociocultural diversity.

Entrenched in a contemporary feminist perspective, that goes beyond the 
issues of men and women and that includes a "much broader spectrum, for 
its hyphenation [...] with other movements and other social and 
political concerns" (Oliveira, 2015, 75), this thematic dossier of /ex 
aequo/ seeks to give voice and visibility to contributions which have as 
their object of analysis intersectionality in the study of communication 
and culture.

These include, but are not excluded by default from others in the same 
scope of work, proposals reflecting theoretical, methodological and 
empirical about the following:

●Reflections that perspective gender studies and feminist media at its 
opening to the theory of intersectionality.

●Theoretical and methodological conceptualizations on the integration of 
the theory of intersectionality in the study of communication and culture.

●Critical analysis, based on the theory of intersectionality, applied to 
several axes of communicational and culture production (production, 
representation and / or reception).

●Reflective reviews of multi-determined structures of oppression and 
privilege and their potentiation in / by the media.

●Reports, mediated, of visibility processes, "voicing" and meaning 
facing of, intra- and inter-categorical, matrixes of privilege and 
oppression.

●Critical assessment of public policy and / or professional integration 
of diversity practices by / in media production.

●Intersectional placements that reflect on the uses and potential of 
media and cultural literacy.

●Movements and protest actions of multi-oppressive power hierarchies 
within the culture and communication fields.

*Refereces:*

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1991. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, 
Identity, Politics and Violence Against Women of Color”. /Stanford Law 
Review, /Vol. 43, pp. 1241-99.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 2002. “Documento para o encontro de especialistas em 
aspetos da discriminação racial relativos ao género”. /Estudos 
Feministas, /Vol.1, pp. 171-188.

May, Vivian M. 2014. ““Speaking into the Void?”. Intersectionality 
critiques and Epistemic Backlash”. /Hypatia, /Vol. 29, No.1, pp. 94- 112.

McCall, Leslie. 2005. “The complexity of intersectionality”. /Signs, 
/Vol. 30, No.3, pp. 1771-­1800.

Nogueira, Conceição. 2011. “Introdução à teoria da interseccionalidade 
nos Estudos de Género”. In, Sofia Neves (Eds)./Género e Ciências 
Sociais/ (pp. 67-78). Maia: Edições ISMAI.

Nogueira, Conceição. 2013. “A teoria da Interseccionalidade nos estudos 
de género e sexualidades: condições de produção de “novas 
possibilidades” no projeto de uma psicologia feminista crítica”. In: Ana 
Lídia Brizola et al. (Orgs)/Práticas Sociais, políticas públicas e 
direitos humanos /(pp. 227-248). Florianópolis: Abrapso/Nuppe/CFH/UFSC.

Oliveira, João M. 2015. “Mil Géneros”. /Vírus, /Vol.7, pp. 74-76.

*_Deadline and guidelines for submission_*

All submissions have to abide by the publication guidelines of /ex 
æquo/, which are available at 
http://www.apem-estudos.org/en/page/apresentacao-da-revista, and the 
papers should be sent until the 31^st  October,**to 
the**(e-mailapem1991 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(apem1991 /at/ gmail.com)>. The 
submissions that do not abide by the publication guidelines of /ex æquo 
/(e.g. references, tables and figures, article length) *will be 
immediately excluded from the arbitrage process*. Within four weeks 
after submission, the authors will receive an email informing of the 
decision to send the paper for peer review or the exclusion from the 
arbitrage process. The date due for publication of this special number 
is May 2017.

*/ex æquo/*//

A bi-annual interdisciplinary journal in the area of Women’s, Gender and 
Feminist Studies 
(http://www.apem-estudos.org/en/page/apresentacao-da-revista)

*/ex æquo/* invites submissions of original papers, both to the thematic 
dossiers and the studies and essays caption, and book reviews. The 
Journal is edited by the Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies 
(APEM) and is directed to an international audience, accepting 
manuscripts submitted in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish, from 
various countries. It aims to ensure that the articles published make a 
significant contribution to the advance of knowledge. Articles submitted 
for publication undergo a blind independent review by at least two 
recognised specialists drawn from a range of countries. It is indexed in 
the *Scientific Electronic Library Online*(SCIELO) 
(http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0874-5560&lng=en&nrm=iso), 
which has recently joined the *Web of Science-Thomson Reuters SciELO 
Citation Index*(http://thomsonreuters.com/scielo-citation-index/; 
http://blog.scielo.org/en/2014/02/28/scielo-citation-index-in-the-web-of-science/#.VIA15DGsURo)

*The call for non-themed submissions (articles and reviews) is 
continuously open**.*

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