[Commlist] CfP: RLC nº. 54 - Gendering decolonizations: ways of seeing and knowing

  Open Call for articles and visual essays for RLC nº. 54 (Spring /
  Summer 2021) - Gendering decolonizations: ways of seeing and knowing

#*no payment from the authors* will be required.

The article submission process for the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of 
/Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens/, “/Gendering decolonizations: ways 
of seeing and knowing/”, edited by Maria do Carmo Piçarra (ICNOVA – NOVA 
FCSH), Ana Cristina Pereira (CES – U. Coimbra) and Inês Beleza Barreiros 
(independent scholar), is open until January 15^th  2021.

In the context of the internationalism that was the backbone of 
liberation struggles worldwide, women used images – mostly photography 
and film – as a weapon. In a certain way, this political engaged praxis 
was a sort of response to the use of images by political, scientific, 
and economic propaganda, which very much sustained the colonial order 
and ideology.

In Portuguese-speaking countries, among the women who photographed or 
made films for political purposes, the names of Augusta Conchiglia, 
Margaret Dickinson, Ingela Romare, Sarah Maldoror and Suzanne Lipinska 
stand out. The filmed materials – and not just the ones women authored – 
were given meaning by film editors Jacqueline Meppiel, Cristiana 
Tullio-Altan or Josefina Crato (the only woman among the four young 
Guineans sent, by Amílcar Cabral himself, to Cuba to study cinema).

Margarida Cardoso, Pocas Pascoal, Maria João Ganga, Isabel Noronha 
through their cinematographic fictions; Kamy Lara, Ana Tica, Diana 
Andringa and Catarina Laranjeiro, through their documentary films; 
Eurídice Kala, Vanessa Fernandes, Filipa César, Mónica de Miranda, 
Ângela Ferreira, Luciana Fina, Jota Mombaça and Grada Kilomba through 
their projects, installations, performances and visual art works, make 
decisive contributions that reflect on (post-)colonial memories and 
experiences, ways of decolonizing the archive and re-imagine Portuguese 
colonialism and the struggle against it.

This special issue aims to gather contributions that reevaluate the role 
of women in the imagination of colonialism in Portuguese-speaking 
countries, once the contributions of women to decolonization processes 
or the perspectives of women involved in anti-colonial movements or even 
women who were part of the colonial authority structure are rarely 
spoken of.

. No history of decolonization or of decolonizing praxes is ever 
completed without attention to gender. We, therefore, welcome historical 
and theoretical approaches as well as artistic proposals, in the form of 
visual essays, to critically analyze:

How did women view the liberation struggles in the former Portuguese 
colonies? How were their ways of seeing integrated or not in the 
imagination of colonialism? Was there a specific gaze to women over the 
liberation struggles? What knowledge and awareness do we have of/about 
these ways of seeing? And how do these ways of seeing intersect with 
those of contemporary filmmakers, artists, curators and academics who 
are now questioning public and private archives, are visually recreating 
their memories or re-imagining colonialism? What role academic research, 
archive conservation policies, programming and curatorship have in 
questioning or prolonging (official) “politics of memory”?


Contributions can address, among others, the following topics:

– Women in national liberation movements;
– Colonialist ways of seeing and knowing of women artists and scientists 
(past and present);
– Sexual policies and intimacy geographies of empires (Stoler);
– Feminisms, nationalisms and decolonization;
– Race, gender and sexuality (sexuality as an instrument of power);
– Human rights, women’s rights;
– Exotization and emancipation of women’s “colonized” bodies;
– Women who make militant cinema / political cinema;
– Re-imagination of colonialism and artistic practices;
– Ways of “decolonizing” the archive and representing colonized female 
bodies;
– Anti-colonial and decolonial theories and methods produced by women 
authors

Articles can be written in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese and 
will be subjected to blind peer review. Formatting must be done in 
accordance with the journal’s submission guidelines and the submission 
via the OJS platform by January 15, 2021.

For inquiries, please contact the editors Maria do Carmo Piçarra 
((carmoramos /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(carmoramos /at/ gmail.com)>), Ana Cristina 
Pereira ((kitty.furtado /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(kitty.furtado /at/ gmail.com)>) and 
Inês Beleza Barreiros ((barreiros.ines /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(barreiros.ines /at/ gmail.com)>).

Guidelines for submission and instructions for authors:

http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/index.php/rcl/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions 
<http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/index.php/rcl/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions>

Visual essays format:

Up to 12 pages. The essay can be entirely visual or combine image and 
text. The visual element of the essay must be an integral part of the 
argument or the ideas expressed and not serve as an example or 
illustration of them. It must also include an introductory text (150-300 
words) that helps understand the essay and its relevance in the context 
of this issue. Particular attention should be given to the layout of 
images/texts: the essay should include a PDF file with suggested layout 
for 17 × 24.5cm and image resolution of at least 300ppi.

(Useful information: 
https://catoolkit.herts.ac.uk/toolkit/the-visual-essay/ 
<https://catoolkit.herts.ac.uk/toolkit/the-visual-essay/>)

#*no payment from the authors* will be required.



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