[Commlist] Call for Chapters – Feminist Futures: From Witches to Maids to Robots and Beyond

*Call for Chapters –
 ** Feminist Futures: From Witches to Maids to Robots and Beyond/**
 ( Emerald Publishing Limited)*


 Liberalism is a fantasy. Its contemporary version was produced and
 exported through most things digital for a good thirty years. Indeed,
 most scholarship is literally anchored around its pillars. Ever since
 the 1990s, when the Lewinsky scandal set the tone associating Clinton
 with the technoliberal moment by exporting the Web to the world, gender
 studies problematics, meetoo protests and gender algorithmic
 discrimination analytics have received so much scholarly attention.
 This, despite the fact that state and corporate structures have not
 really caught up with the Real. Too often, academic meetings feel like
 we are still living in Reaganism and Thatcherism with managers and
 bureaucrats steeped in an accelerated pace of sustaining the neoliberal
 university.

 Yet bridges have been built, constructed by that very same imaginary,
 despite criticism that they have been produced by lipstick feminist
 bureaucrats. Bridges where indeed very evident during the Covid-19
 creating havoc in the global economy and the sociopolitical structures
 of the contemporary world. Mental health issues have been on the rise
 and gender-based violence flourishing with the majority of global
 population home restricted. Gender-based violence and femicide were
 described as the shadow pandemic, suggesting that violence was more
 hidden that ever, it was spreading rapidly, and it was not
 gender-neutral. Recent debates regarding abortion law in US, China, and
 many EU countries, debates regarding misogyny, the rise of far-right
 politics, conservatism and extremist movements, indicated additional
 threats for women rights and the LGBTQ+ community in a global context.
 At the same time, Metoo movements were structured through platform
 capitalist monopolies, and of course, thousands of feminists are still
 out there fighting and doing what they have always done.

 Feminist Futures is a book all about bridges and connections! It aspires
 to take a look at the future, it wants to tell the story of witches, how
 neo-feudalism relates to the present monsters, how postcolonialism and
 postcold war politics brought us here, when it comes to women’s rights.
 It is about automation and the constant repetition of the need for care
 without really doing it. It wants to bring these stories at the center
 stage to talk about the future, to shed light on research that can lead
 us to what unites us and not to what divides us. It resists the
 universality of categories that have divided us in the academy, and is
 edited by women that have always loved bridges - but who also are not
 afraid to burn them when they need to! - this edited collection sets out
 to invite manuscript proposals that synthesise or systematically review
 trends in any of the following sections:

 1. Socio-economic inequalities affecting women nationally and 
transnationally

 2. Feminist-inspired workers’ struggles and resistances
 3. Psychoanalytic theory and women’s daily lived experiences
 4. Motherhood struggles
 5. Women against the state
 6. Women and race
 7. Women during war
 8. Women and migration
 9. Women, science, and technology (i.e., digital, health, and 
environmental issues)
 10. Women during pandemics

 The editorial team [Ioanna Ferra- Higher School of Economics, Fenia
 Ferra - University of Derby, Korinna Patelis - Independent Researcher,
 and Athina Karatzogianni - University of Leicester] welcomes manuscripts
 which address any aspect as long as it fits with the overall focus.
 Chapter proposals should (a) be 600-1000word summaries, (b) identify the
 preferred contribution section (see 1-10 above), and (c) engage with:
 overlapping modes of inquiry and theory; methods and research
 techniques; data sources or empirical evidence; findings, results and
 conclusions; and the significance or relevance of this manuscript to the
 volume’s overall theme.

 Timeline:
 Proposal submission deadline: 15 December 2021
 Editor decisions on proposals: 14 January 2022
 Complete manuscript drafts due: 16 May 2022
 Final manuscript due: 16 September 2022'

 Please email your chapter proposal to (feministfutures2022 /at/ gmail.com)
 by 15 December 2021. Final chapters between 5-7000 words, all-inclusive.


*No payment from the authors will be required/ No Article Processing Charges

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