CFP – The Politics of Resistance / Deadline July 1st, 2013 Feral Feminisms invites submissions from scholars, graduate students, artists and activists for a special issue entitled “The Politics of Resistance,” guest edited by Leyna Lowe and Veronika Novoselova. Feral Feminisms‘ inaugural issue is inspired by the Dynamic Resistances: Complicating, Screwing & Perpetuating Structures in our World conference that took place on September 14th & 15th, 2012 at York University. Presenters considered how resistance is a term and concept widely used in feminist thinking and activism. They examined how it is used to make sense of struggles, failures, victories as well as non-normative practices, embodiments, identities, and modes of being. This special issue of Feral Feminisms entices us to rethink and revisit resistance once again in all its dynamic and cacophonous forms and to consider collectively what resistance has meant, where it has been, and the divergent directions it might take. In the conference call for papers, applicants considered some of the following questions: What modes and meanings of resistance are available to feminists? Why is resistance integral to feminist thought and practice? Which histories and stories of resistance do you find most meaningful, inspiring, or transformative? What shapes has resistance taken in your life? How is resistance difficult, demanding, dangerous, and perhaps even impossible? How are resistances experienced unevenly and unequally as a daily occurrence for some and an occasional action for others? How are resistances dynamic? How do resistances change, complicate, conflict and compete? What are the complexities and tensions characteristic of strategic or spontaneous resistances? How are processes of resistance energizing, agitating, misaligned, or forceful? In what ways do acts of resistance reify while rebuking, rehearse while reshaping, solidify while sublimating? This special issue of Feral Feminisms seeks to harness the wide array of feminist engagements with resistance and explore resistance in its dynamic forms. Submitted contributions may include papers, visual art, film, poetry and literary pieces, or personal narratives of resistance. This first issue will be guest edited by Leyna Lowe and Veronika Novoselova, members of the conference organizing committee of Dynamic Resistances. Please direct inquiries to Guest Editors Leyna Lowe ([email protected]) and Veronika Novoselova ([email protected]) or Managing Editors of Feral Feminisms, Danielle Cooper, Ela Przybylo, and Sara Rodrigues (feralfeminisms@gmail). For submission guidelines, please see the submission guidelines page of the Feral Feminisms website.
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