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CALL FOR PAPERS, ISSUE 3\/2 OF INTERFACE: A JOURNAL FOR AND ABOUT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS MAY 2011) \u201eFEMINISM, WOMEN\u2019S MOVEMENTS AND WOMEN IN MOVEMENT<\/span>\u201c<\/p>\n

Issue editors: Catherine Eschle, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Sara Motta, Laurence Cox<\/p>\n

Feminist theory is a direct product of women\u2019s movements, which in turn have been among the most powerful movements of recent decades and have had dramatic effects across societies. Despite this, much contemporary feminist theory avoids questions of collective agency, and is often disconnected from movement activism. Conversely most scholarship on social movements ignores feminist analysis or at best includes it as an add-on question about gendered participation. Arguably, such scholarship is reliant on restrictive conceptual frames that result in the invisibilisation, de-legitimisation and silencing of contemporary forms of feminism, women\u2019s movement and women in movement. Both frameworks are therefore weak on understanding and conceptualising the nature of contemporary feminism-as-movement, engaging with women\u2019s agency in the construction of new forms of popular politics and opening up productive questions about political strategy.<\/p>\n

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This is particularly strange since women\u2019s movements, and movements dominated by women (particularly those described as popular movements, movements of the poor or community movements), play a distinctive and characteristic role in local, national and global politics. They often expand the praxis of popular politics and social change in ways that politicise the subjective and the everyday, and include the spiritual, cultural and affective in their practices of resistance. Furthermore, feminist historical accounts in recent decades have highlighted the importance of women\u2019s mobilisation, theories, pedagogies and approaches in everything from anti-imperialist movements, struggles around social reproduction and trade union organising to religious activism and top-down mobilisation in support of conservative regimes.<\/p>\n

For this issue, we invite contributions on how feminist theory can help us understand the ways in which participation and collective action are gendered within social movements generally. We are equally interested in the ways in which women\u2019s movements, feminist activism and movements strongly marked by women\u2019s participation but without a feminist identification have distinct approaches to politics \u2013 or operate in similar ways to other movements \u2013 and the political and strategic implications of their activities. We are looking for contributions from feminist activists and scholars, participants in and students of women\u2019s movements and movements marked by a feminisation of resistance, and social movement researchers with an interest in women\u2019s agency, or how agency is gendered, in movements of all kinds.<\/p>\n

Questions for discussion<\/p>\n

Some of the questions we are interested in exploring in this issue of Interface are:<\/p>\n

– Is there a distinctively feminist mode of analysing social movements and collective agency?
\n– Can (should) academic forms of feminism be reclaimed as theory-for-movements?
\n– In what ways and to what extent are social movement actors using feminist categories to develop new forms of collective action?
\n–\u00a0 Are there specific types of \u201ewomen\u2019s movement\/s\u201c in terms of participation, tactics and strategies?
\n–\u00a0 Has the feminisation of poverty led to the feminisation of resistance among movements of the poor? If so\/if not, what are the implications for such resistance?
\n–\u00a0 Under what conditions does women\u2019s participation in movements which are not explicitly feminist or focussed on specifically gendered issues lead to a change in power relations?
\n–\u00a0 What are the implications of women\u2019s participation for collective identity or movement practice, leadership and strategy?
\n–\u00a0 What constitutes progressive or emancipatory movement practice in relation to gender, and good practice in alliance-building?
\n–\u00a0 How can social movement scholarship contribute more to the feminist analysis of activism, and how can feminist scholarship help develop a fuller understanding of collective agency?
\n–\u00a0 Are there specifically gendered themes to the current global wave of movements? Have feminist perspectives anything distinctive to offer the analysis of such movements?
\n–\u00a0 What can enquiry into contemporary activism learn from historical feminist writing on women\u2019s movements and women\u2019s role in other movements?<\/p>\n

Contributions on other questions related to the theme of this issue are also very much welcomed.<\/p>\n

Special section: feminist strategies for change<\/p>\n

We aim to include a special themed section within the issue on feminist strategies for change. This will be open to contributions from feminist groups, whether written collectively or by individuals.<\/p>\n

Throughout the 1990s feminist politics became increasingly professionalised and arguably de-politicised. Yet neoliberal globalisation has witnessed a feminisation of poverty and sexualisation of public space.\u00a0 The result is a paradoxical situation of defeats and de-politicisation combined with new forms of re-politicisation. This special section seeks to engage with attempts to re-articulate feminist politics in the current conjuncture, be they liberal, radical, socialist or anarchist in character or taking new forms. Arguably many of these re-articulations are simultaneously localised and transnationalised, articulating a praxis that is often mis-recognised and mis-represented by social movement scholarship.<\/p>\n

The questions we hope will be considered in this section include:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 What does feminist strategy mean today?
\n–\u00a0 What are the challenges and limitations of feminist strategising in the current moment?
\n–\u00a0 How do contemporary feminist activists and women\u2019s movements draw on the practices and experiences of earlier movements?
\n–\u00a0 Where do they see themselves in terms of movement achievements to date and the road still to be travelled?
\n–\u00a0 What barriers and possibilities for feminist struggle has neoliberalism created?
\n–\u00a0 Does the decline of neo-liberalism create openings for feminists?
\n–\u00a0 And what movements today could be allies for a transition out of patriarchy?<\/p>\n

We also invite feminist groups, communities and movements to frame their own questions and problematics for this section.<\/p>\n

General submissions<\/p>\n

Finally, as in all issues of Interface, we will\u00a0 accept submissions on topics that are not related to the special theme of the issue, but that emerge from or focus on movements around the world and the immense amount of knowledge that they generate. Such general submissions should contribute to the journal\u2019s mission as a tool to help our movements learn from each other\u2019s struggles, by developing analyses from specific movement processes and experiences that can be translated into a form useful for other movements. In this context, we welcome contributions by movement participants and academics who are developing movement-relevant theory and research. Our goal is to include material that can be used in a range of ways by movements \u2013 in terms of its content, its language, its purpose and its form. We thus seek work in a range of different formats, such as conventional articles, review essays, facilitated discussions and interviews, action notes, teaching notes, key documents and analysis, book reviews \u2013 and beyond. Both activist and academic peers review research contributions, and other material is sympathetically edited by peers. The editorial process generally is geared towards assisting authors to find ways of expressing their understanding, so that we all can be heard across geographical, social and political distances.<\/p>\n

Deadline and contact details<\/p>\n

The deadline for initial submissions to this issue (Issue 6, to be published November 2011) is May 1st 2011.<\/p>\n

For details on how to submit to Interface please consult the \u201eGuidelines for contributors\u201c on our website at\u00a0www.interfacejournal.net<\/a>, and send manuscripts to the appropriate regional editor, whether on the special theme of \u201eFeminism, women\u2019s movements and women in movements\u201c or general articles. Editorial contact details can be found on the website for different global regions and languages.<\/p>\n

Potential contributors for the special section on \u201eFeminist strategies for change\u201c are invited to contact Sara Motta at saracatherinem AT googlemail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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