[Anarchafeminists] Fw: Feminist strategies for change - Interface journal call for activist contributions

[Jamie Heckert]

FYI, all

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Hi all,

This call for papers may be of interest to list members.

Best,

Laurence





From: Laurence Cox <Laurence.Cox at nuim.ie>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:55 AM
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Subject: Feminist strategies for change - Interface journal call for
activist contributions

Feminist
strategies for change: activist debate
Interface journal call for
contributions (extended deadline)

- apologies for crossposting
-

In the heyday of the second women's movement, feminist utopias and
strategies for a world without patriarchy were the stuff of lively debate and
defined different kinds of feminist politics and theory. In the grey light of
2011 - the darkness before the dawn? - is it still possible to imagine a
post-patriarchal society? Can we imagine what kinds of feminist revolution or
transformation might make this possible? And what sorts of everyday collective
practice can social movements engage in to bring such a future
closer?

Interface: a journal for and about social movements <
http://interfacejournal.net <http://interfacejournal.net/>> is
produced by activists with an eye to
theory and social movement researchers as a practitioner journal for people
engaged in or studying the practice of social movement, and aiming to stimulate
discussion and learning between people in different regions and continents,
different political situations and theoretical traditions, and different
movement contexts. After issues on movement knowledge, civil society,
revolutions, activist media and repression, we are now working on an issue
devoted to feminism, women's movements and women in movement.

Sara Motta
is curating a special section within this issue on feminist strategies for
change, open to contributions from feminist groups, whether they are written
collectively or individually. These pieces will not be peer-reviewed
(unless the
authors request it) but will be worked on directly with the editor. We
hope that
this section will be part of a
more general revival of feminist
strategising, thinking beyond the everyday crises to which we still need to
respond and articulating broader perspectives for change which make a world
without patriarchy thinkable and - hopefully - possible. Below is the original
call for this section:

"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.  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.

The questions we hope will be considered in this section
include:

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

We
also invite feminist groups, communities and movements to frame their own
questions and problematics for this section."

The extended deadline for
this section is September 1st, 2011. If you are interested in contributing to
this section, please contact Sara Motta at <saracatherinem AT
googlemail.com <http://googlemail.com/>>.

The full call for
papers ("Feminism, women's movements and women in movement") can be
found at http://www.interfacejournal.net/archives/call-for-papers/.
The other editors for this issue are Catherine Eschle, Cristina
Flesher Fominaya
and Laurence Cox.

Another call for papers, on "The season of
revolutions: the Arab Spring", is now open. More details at
http://www.interfacejournal.net/archives/call-for-papers/.


Please forward this to anyone you know who might be
interested.