[Commlist] Call for abstracts: Digital Feminist Citizenship in Africa

*Call for abstracts: Digital Feminist Citizenship in Africa*

Tanja Bosch, Tony Roberts. Zed Books.

We invite abstract submissions for chapters to be included in a 
collected edition book on digital feminist citizenship in Africa towards 
a book proposal for submission to Zed Books. This book is a continuation 
of this project: 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-citizenship-in-africa-9781350324459/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-citizenship-in-africa-9781350324459/>

In recent years, we have seen a renewal in feminist politics “that 
emerge from the interface of digital platforms and activism today” 
(Baer, 2016). Women increasingly use participatory digital media to 
network and organize in various ways, including against sexism and rape 
culture (Mendes et al., 2019). Digital feminist protest culture has 
facilitated the emergence of digital feminist citizenship, whereby women 
use digital technologies to claim their rights as citizens and challenge 
structures that limit their participation in the public sphere.

Feminists have, however, argued that the discourses and practices of 
citizenship “are deeply gendered and racialized”; as well as “deeply 
ambiguous and exclusionary” (Ackelsberg, 2009, 119-120), as it has 
generally been accepted that citizenship occurs in the public domain, 
thus excluding private or domestic activities and those located in those 
areas, e.g., women. Moreover, feminist scholars have highlighted the 
failure of citizenship rights vested in liberal democracies to meet the 
needs of women and other minority groups, including those who are 
socially or economically marginalised (Lister, 1997).

We invited you to submit a 200-word abstract by 31 August 2023. Please 
include a short bio of the authors. We welcome submissions from 
activists and practitioners as well as emerging and established scholars.

We encourage case studies located in various parts of the continent, 
empirical work, as well as theoretical reflections, which contribute 
toward an exploration of contemporary feminist protest and digital 
feminisms.

Possible topics for the volume include, but are not limited to:

  * The role of digital technologies in shaping feminist citizenship in
    Africa
  * Algorithmic culture and online identity
  * Case studies of digital feminist campaigns/online activism
  * Other manifestations of digital feminist citizenship
  * The interplay between offline and online feminist citizenship practices
  * Transformational feminist digital citizenship

Submit your abstract to (Tanja.Bosch /at/ uct.ac.za) 
<mailto:(Tanja.Bosch /at/ uct.ac.za)>and (T.Roberts /at/ ids.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(T.Roberts /at/ ids.ac.uk)>with “Digital Feminist Citizenship” in the 
subject line. If our proposal is accepted, we will ask for an extended 
abstract of 1500 words by end-October and a first draft of 2500-3000 
words by the end of December. Full final papers of 6,000 – 7,000 words 
will be due in 2024. Note that no payment from the authors will be required.

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