[Commlist] CFP: Feminist Encounters - Gender Activism in South Asia (Spring 2023)

*** Call for Papers ***
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
Spring 2023

Gender Activism in South Asia

Guest editors: Munira Cheema (King’s College London) and Salma Siddique 
(Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

Feminist Encounters seeks multi-format submissions for a special issue 
on Gender Activism in South Asia for Spring 2023.

In this issue, we wish 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 urban South Asian gender 
activisms. Multi-city collectives and calls such as Why Loiter? , Pinjra 
Tod (Break the Cage), and Girls at Dhaba seek to tackle the double bind 
of protection and risk for urban women. 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. In India, the 
BJP-led state has upheld a paternalistic protection of ‘daughters’ and 
‘sisters’ in several media campaigns and measures, reiterating its 
jurisdiction over women’s bodies. 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, Bangladesh, India, 
Pakistan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

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?
What narratives of feminism emerge in the labor of online influencers?
How can we map contradictions and similarities amongst different shades 
of Muslim feminisms?
How does intersectionality inform new media activism?
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?
What is the role of documentary filmmaking in shaping activism on gender?
How do instances of online misogyny such as ‘sulli deals’ and ‘bois 
locker room’ produce new activisms centered on online safety?


Submissions can include interviews, video essays and long-articles 
(7000-11000 including notes and references).

300 words abstract and bio by 1 November 2021 to (Munira.cheema /at/ kcl.ac.uk) 
or (salma.siddique /at/ hu-berlin.de)

Decision by 1 December 2021
Submissions due by 1 April 2022


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