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

Reminder *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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