[Commlist] CfP Knowledges Of Emancipation: Narratives of Resistance and the Amplification of Global Majority Voices

*CfP*

*/Knowledges Of Emancipation: Narratives of Resistance and the 
Amplification of Global Majority Voices/*

Youmna Deiri, Ph.D.

Texas A&M International University

(youmna.deiri /at/ tamiu.edu) <mailto:(youmna.deiri /at/ tamiu.edu)>

Maha Bashri, Ph.D.

United Arab Emirates University

(maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) <mailto:(maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)>

The /Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies (JECS)/, a U.S.-based 
international interdisciplinary journal, is currently inviting 
submissions for a special issue that spotlights the narratives and 
experiences of scholars from the Global South. /JECS /is dedicated to 
widely disseminating comprehensive research that spans a variety of 
disciplines, each distinctively linked to aspects of ethnicity and 
culture, encompassing theoretical, methodological, and empirical 
studies/. /The special issue seeks to magnify the voices of scholars 
from the Global South and Diaspora. By doing so, we aim to enhance the 
reach and impact of the unique perspectives of the Global Majority.

The main objective of this issue is to cultivate an environment that 
encourages candid and open dialogue. In this space, scholars from the 
Global South and Diaspora can openly share their experiences and 
challenges of navigating through academic environments that are often 
steeped in various forms of hegemony, whether cultural, economic, or 
political. We are interested in understanding their strategies for 
carving out pockets of joy, life, and self-sovereignty amid adversity. 
Rather than adhering to traditional colonial academic structures and 
western-centric knowledge production, our focus is directed towards 
fostering community-based creativity and knowledge.

Through this, we aim to demonstrate that acts of radical self-love and 
the creation of personal spaces constitute a form of activism and 
revolution, contributing to a curriculum that benefits our future 
generations. This approach also encourages a distinctive form of 
activism that doesn't need to align with traditional colonial paradigms.

*Invitation to Scholars, Activists, Educators, and More*

In this invitation, we are reaching out to interdisciplinary scholars, 
activists, educators, artists, healers, and dream workers who challenge 
colonial structures and create nurturing spaces of joy, love, and life. 
We emphasize the cultivation of a curriculum based on self-sovereignty, 
community intimacy, and self-love as revolutionary acts, allowing the 
Global Majority to connect and converse on their own terms.

We are particularly interested in featuring content that explores the 
multifaceted realities of academics belonging to the Global Majority and 
Diaspora, shedding light on our curriculum as an active form of resistance.

*Guiding Questions for Submissions*

Our primary inquiry is: /How might the landscape change if we, as 
academics from the Global South, the Global Majority, and Diaspora, 
shifted our focus from catering to colonial systems and structures 
towards our aspirations, and the establishment of deeper connections 
within ourselves, our communities, and the wider diaspora and Global 
Majority communities?/ This question transcends geographical confines 
and academic disciplines, extending its reach to those marginalized and 
muted within the academic sphere.

We are looking to explore the following guiding questions:

  * What narratives would we like to share among ourselves as scholars
    of the Global South and Diaspora?
  * What are the teaching strategies we use to educate our future
    generations about the pain of displacement and resistance against
    colonial academic structures?
  * What stories about ourselves do we wish to share with our intimate
    communities, families, ancestors, and descendants?
  * What type of spaces would we construct if we were able to disregard
    colonial standards?
  * How does the colonial structure of academia seek to alienate Global
    Majority communities from one another, and how does it explore the
    intimate impact on the lives of academics under these epistemologies
    of division?
  * Historically, colonial structures have been known to extend their
    imperial powers through Global Majority proxies, if such practices
    do manifest in academic spaces how can they be resisted and/or 
expelled?
  * Amidst the pain of different forms of hegemony, how do we claim
    self-sovereignty, and what are some tenets of your curriculum of
    healing and joy?

*Suggested Theoretical Framework*

We suggest using the following theoretical frameworks for your submissions:

  * Postcolonial Theory/Representation (Said, 1978; Bhabha, 1983)
  * Subaltern Studies (Spivak, 1988)
  * Decoloniality (Mignolo, 2000)
  * Critical Pedagogy (Freire, 1968)
  * Cultural Studies (Hall,1989)
  * Radical Love as a Revolutionary Act (Belle, 2024, hooks 2014)
  * Critical Race Theory in Education (Ladson-Billings, Gloria, and
    William F. Tate)
  * Borderlands: La frontera (Anzaldúa, G., 1987).
  * Audre Lorde (1982, 1984, 1989)
  * Ethnographies of the Particular (Lila Abu-Lughod, 1991, 2008)
  * Indigenous Methodologies Indigenous Methodologies Kovach, 2008;
    Wilson 2009; Smith, Tuck, 2009)
  * Tribal Critical Race Theory & Self Determination (Brayboy, 2005)
·Decolonizing the mind (Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 1986).

*Multilingual Submissions Encouraged*

We extend a warm welcome to multilingual scholars of the Global Majority 
and/or Diaspora wishing to submit a translingual text or manuscripts 
that weave named languages with English. To prepare our editorial team, 
please inform us of the language you plan to use in your submission.

We also welcome unconventional forms of academic writing, including 
poetic inquiry, dream inquiry, and dramatic writing.

*Submission Guidelines*

This call confronts the entangled systems of oppression that often 
overshadow the voices outside the western academic milieu, specifically 
those of academics from the Global South and Diaspora. Our goal is to 
challenge and reframe this narrative, underscoring the invaluable 
contributions these scholars provide in a world where decolonization 
remains an imperative, all while acknowledging the rich lives, dreams, 
communities, and emotions inherent to these academics from the Diaspora 
and Global South.

Our invitation is not a plea for token diversity or performative 
allyship. Rather, it's a clarion call for profound, transformative 
change within academia that requires an authentic scrutiny of privilege 
and systemic bias.

Should this mission resonate with you, we warmly invite you to submit 
your abstract, vignette, poetic inquiry synopsis, or portrait inquiry 
description, within a range of *300 words*.Proposal submission must be 
submitted by email to the guest editors at (youmna.deiri /at/ tamiu.edu) 
<mailto:(youmna.deiri /at/ tamiu.edu)>  and (maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae) 
<mailto:(maha.bashri /at/ uaeu.ac.ae)> .

In later stages of submissions, the full manuscript will be submitted to 
the journal’s portal:

https://www.ejecs.org/index.php/JECS <https://www.ejecs.org/index.php/JECS>


*Important Dates*

  * Call for Papers: August 15, 2023
  * Abstracts Due: October 15, 2023
  * Decisions on Abstracts: November 15, 2023
  * Full Manuscript Due: March 15, 2024
  * Revisions Sent Out: June 1, 2024
  * Final Submission Due: August 15, 2024
  * Special Issue Published: October 2024



Please circulate this call amongst your colleagues and networks. The CfP 
can also be found on the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies’ 
website: https://www.ejecs.org/index.php/JECS/announcement/view/7 
<https://www.ejecs.org/index.php/JECS/announcement/view/7>



If you have any queries, please feel free to email (maha.bashri /at/ uau.ac.ae) 
<mailto:(maha.bashri /at/ uau.ac.ae)>and/(oryoumna.deiri /at/ tamiu.edu) 
<mailto:(youmna.deiri /at/ tamiu.edu)>


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