[Commlist] CFP: Feminist Encounters - Gender Activism in South Asia (Spring 2023)

*Call for Papers *

*Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and 
Politics ***

*Spring 2023 *

/*Gender Activism in South Asia*/

Guest editors: Munira Cheema (King’s College London) and Salma Siddique 
(Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)*//*

/Feminist Encounters /seeks submissions for a special issue on Gender 
Activism in South Asia for Spring 2023.

In this issue, we wish to consider historical activisms, and also how 
gender activism in the region has been changing over the last decade. 
Arguably, it is an unprecedented moment for urban South Asian gender 
activisms. Multi-city collectives and calls such as /Why Loiter?/, 
/Pinjra Tod /(Break the Cage), and /Girls at Dhaba/ seek to tackle the 
double bind of protection and risk for urban women. On the one hand, 
South Asian gender activists are using conventional methods such as 
public protests, but we have also seen a huge growth in the use of 
social media to shape their respective discourses in the public sphere.  
Populist regimes continue to try to define and restrict the role of 
women, including in the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, which in turn 
is producing – and hopefully will produce – various kinds of resistance. 
In India, the BJP-led state has upheld a paternalistic protection of 
‘daughters’ and ‘sisters’ in several media campaigns and measures, 
reiterating its jurisdiction over women’s bodies. We invite proposals 
for articles that will address how civil society, nation states and the 
media are shaping narratives of feminism and gender activism in the 
region of South Asia. We are interested in contributions from 
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and 
Sri Lanka.

*Themes are not restricted to, but may address the following questions: ***

How are choreographies of gender centric protests challenging the 
patriarchal state?

How has social media redefined gender activism in South Asian countries 
such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and others?

How do right-wing feminists utilise social media platforms such as 
YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter?

Ask whether gender activism can be understood to be unifying or dividing 
the region across religion, class, caste and ethnicity?

What narratives of feminism emerge in the labor of online influencers?

How can we map contradictions and similarities amongst different shades 
of Muslim feminisms?

How does intersectionality inform new media activism?

How are Muslim feminisms changing to meet emergent challenges in South 
Asian countries?

What is the relationship between Muslim feminism and the patriarchal state?

Can gender activism thrive under populist regimes?

How does the #MeToo Movement redefine the culture of shame in South Asia?

What is the role of documentary filmmaking in shaping activism on gender?

How do instances of online misogyny such as ‘sulli deals’ and ‘bois 
locker room’ produce new activisms centered on online safety?

    Article length 7000-11000 including notes and works cited.

               300 words abstract and bio by 1 October 2021 to 
(Munira.cheema /at/ kcl.ac.uk) <mailto:(Munira.cheema /at/ kcl.ac.uk)> or 
(salma.siddique /at/ hu-berlin.de) <mailto:(salma.siddique /at/ hu-berlin.de)>

       Decision by 1 November 2021

        Full articles due by 1 February 2022


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