[Commlist] cfp: Feminist Encounters - Gender Activism in South Asia

Call for Papers
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
Spring 2023
Gender Activism in South Asia
Guest editor: Munira Cheema (Kings College London)

Feminist Encounters seeks submissions for a special issue on Gender 
Activism in South Asia for Spring 2023.
In this issue, we want 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 South Asian gender 
activisms. 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. 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, India, 
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar and Maldives.

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

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)
Decision by 1 November 2021
Full articles due by 1 February 2022
For submission guidelines see: 
https://www.lectitopublishing.nl/feminist-encounters/submission-guidelines
(Please note there are no article processing charges)
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