[Commlist] CfP European Journal of Women's Studies - Special Issue "Digital Media, Feminisms, and Public Health in the Age of Pandemic"

Call for papers
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/ejw/call-for-papers

Special issue "Digital Media, Feminisms, and Public Health in the Age of 
Pandemic"
Editors: Ilaria A. De Pascalis ((ilariaantonella.depascalis /at/ uniroma3.it)) 
and Veronica Pravadelli ((veronica.pravadelli /at/ uniroma3.it))
Deadline: May 1st 2023

Ideologies such as sexism, racism, and classism in relation to bodies 
and all life forms are still globally hegemonic (Haraway 2016; Braidotti 
2021; Ahmed 2021), and structures of privilege and power violently mould 
policies of care. This was particularly evident with the onset of the 
COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when power imbalances affected communities' 
coping mechanisms.
      This Special Issue of the European Journal of Women’s Studies will 
address how digital media have contributed to public and private 
narratives about the Covid-19 global health emergency and policies of 
care (cf. The Care Collective 2020; UN Women 2021). Digital media, 
online platforms, and handheld devices have been essential to feminist 
and queer practices facing the challenges of this shocking collective 
experience.

Key emerging questions that articles in the Special Issue can address 
include:

• How have national and local institutions across Europe used digital 
media to narrate the health emergency and the politics of care? To what 
extent has this been gendered? And how have digital platforms and 
devices been used to cope with such a public health emergency?
• What are some of the ways digital media have shaped relations between 
institutions and citizens in relation to gender?
• Taking an intersectional approach, how have individuals, groups and 
communities used digital media to represent their experiences of the 
pandemic and related practices of care?
• In what ways have digital media contributed to solidifying existing 
communities as well as creating new forms of ‘coming together’ in 
relation to feminist and queer agendas?
• The pandemic has magnified the role of age and class differences in 
relation to the digital divide. How has this issue been represented by 
institutions and communities?
• Lockdowns and self-isolation have strongly influenced affective 
networks. How have digital media and devices reconfigured personal 
relations of any form (love, friendship, family ties, etc.)?
• The pandemic has caused a resurgence in the implementation of border 
procedures for all European citizens. How has this fueled new 
imaginaries of Europe/nation-states relations and their circulation in 
digital media?
• How have feminist and queer activists used digital platforms and 
grassroots media to cope with the public health emergency and the 
politics of care?
• How have creativity and art been mobilised to represent the pandemic 
and particularly the suffering gendered body?
• How have feminist and queer theories addressed the aforementioned issues?

Articles should be prepared according to the guidelines for submission 
on the inside back cover of the print https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ejw.

All articles will be subject to the usual peer review process.

Articles should be submitted online to 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejw by May 1st 2023 .

Informal enquiries can be sentto Hazel Johnstone, Managing Editor of 
EJWS [Email: (ejws /at/ lse.ac.uk) ].

This is a no-APC CfP.

References
Sara Ahmed (2021), Complaint!, Duke University Press
Rosi Braidotti (2021), Posthuman Feminism, Wiley
The Care Collective (2020), The Care Manifesto. The Politics of 
Interdependence, Verso
Donna J. Haraway (2016), Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the 
Chthulucene, Duke University Press
UN Women (2021), Beyond Covid19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and 
Social Justice, UN Women Digital Library Publications



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