[Commlist] CFP Gender, Media and Developmentalism - Feminist Media Histories

CALL FOR PAPERS

Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal
Special Issue on Gender, Media, and Developmentalism
Guest Editors: Dalila Missero & Masha Salazkina

Please consider submitting a proposal for the special issue of 
*Feminist Media Histories* (California University Press) on the topic of 
"Gender, Media and Developmentalism" (guest editors Dalila Missero and 
Masha Salazkina).
Please send your 500-word abstracts (and a short bio) by* **1 February 
2024***to**<(d.missero /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)> and <(salazkina.masha /at/ gmail.com)>; 
notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 March 2024; article drafts 
will be due by 1 October 2024 and will then be sent out for peer review. 
No publication fees/Article Publication Charges are required, at any time.

Please find below a short version of the call (full version here: 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FMQtzXQqnffJLkvI0ippmwvGIYagioKKeZMmTbT5HM/edit 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FMQtzXQqnffJLkvI0ippmwvGIYagioKKeZMmTbT5HM/edit>>).

CFP Special Issue Feminist Media Histories: Gender, Media, and 
Developmentalism

With this special issue of Feminist Media Histories we invite 
contributions that explore the historical role 
of gender within media production explicitly engaged in developmentalist 
projects. As an ideological and political framework, developmentalism 
became especially prominent between the 1950s and the 1990s to 
conceptualize, discuss, and tackle global inequality. Based on the 
certainty that economic growth inevitably leads to social progress and 
modernization, it has been a dominant paradigm driving state and 
inter-governmental support for various institutional media projects, 
especially in the context of Asia, Africa, and Latin America on both 
sides of the Iron Curtain. In a more latent way, developmentalist 
discourses and representational regimes—as well as their critiques—have 
also been central to much film and media production in these regions, 
from radical, grassroots, or independent media collectives to commercial 
filmmaking. With the inauguration of the United Nations Decade of Women 
(1975-1985), the issue of gender inequality became increasingly central 
in developmentalist debates and policies, in tandem with and in response 
to the agenda of the international women’s 
movement. Media representations and infrastructures have played a key 
role in shaping these intersecting processes in a way that remains to be 
fully explored in media history.

Investigating media projects that resulted from the inevitably 
contradictory intersection of global developmentalist politics (which 
have increasingly focused on women and indigenous communities) and 
on-the-ground women’s movements in Asia, Africa, and  Latin America 
therefore presents a particularly productive area of transnational 
decolonial feminist media scholarship.
To this end, this special issue seeks to foster new knowledge and 
develop shared theoretical and methodological frameworks for exploring 
this topic. We welcome scholarship on different types of media (film, 
television, radio, digital media, etc), situated within a wide 
historical period, and from a variety of geographic and geopolitical 
positions. Contributions may focus on specific case studies as well as 
on broader methodological and theoretical questions.

Possible topics include:

Representations of gender, indigeneity, coloniality, and global 
inequality in developmentalist media
Feminist (mediated) responses to developmentalism
Queer and trans activism and developmentalist media
Developmentalist media and social, political, and anti-colonial movements
Differences and similarities in gender politics of developmentalism 
across the Cold War divides and their corresponding media forms and 
ideologies
Archives, counter-archives, technologies, and infrastructures of 
developmentalist media
Developmentalism and mediated representations of the future
Institutions and agencies (United Nations, UNESCO, the World Bank) as 
well as governments and NGOs as production sites of media content 
on gender and development
Developmentalism in the context of contemporary sustainability and 
environmental programs (i.e., SDG 2030 agenda), and its intersections 
with today’s ecofeminist movements and digital media practices
Comparative and/or transnational studies of developmentalism and media

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