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- Deadline: 23 August 2026 We invite authors from various disciplines to submit contributions that deal with gender relations in various social and cultural areas from a theoretical or empirical perspective to be published in the free section of GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society.Interdisciplinary approachGENDER is an interdisciplinary forum for German-speaking women‘s and gender studies with a special focus on social and cultural science disciplines. We therefore welcome contributions from political science, film and media studies, sociology, communication science, literary science, history, pedagogics, art history, psychology, religious studies and many more. Furthermore, analyses from natural sciences, technologies, medicine, health studies, ecology and environmental studies as well as engineering are of interest and very welcome.German-speaking journal with an international focusGENDER is a journal with a focus on a German-speaking audience (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Contributions discuss relevant questions of gender relations in various countries, in part from an international comparative perspective. Non-German speakers are welcome to submit their articles in English.Contributions to the free sectionGENDER is published in three issues a year; each issue has a special thematic focus. In addition to the thematic focus, there is a free section, which has a broad thematic scope. Submissions to the free section are reviewed and discussed by the editorial board as part of regular editorial meetings and undergo a double-blind peer review process once they are accepted by the editorial board.SubmissionsContributions to the free section are welcome at any time. However, we ask you to please see our website for submission deadlines related to our editorial meetings (www.gender-zeitschrift.de). As for the free section, we do not ask for abstracts, but invite you to submit a full text with a maximum length of 50,000 characters (including space characters, footnotes and bibliography). For further information on submissions and our style sheet, please see https://www.gender-zeitschrift.de/en/manuscripts.If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the editorial team at: manuskripte@gender-zeitschrift.de
- Deadline: 24 August 2026 Leibniz Universität Hannover | 20-22. November 2026Die „Feministischen Tage 2026“ an der Leibniz Universität Hannover widmen sich der Frage, wie feministische Gesellschaftsanalyse unter den Bedingungen digitaler Transformation, wachsender materieller Ungleichheiten, veränderter Öffentlichkeiten und politischer Polarisierung weiterentwickelt werden kann. Die Veranstaltung knüpft an die Tradition interdisziplinärer feministischer Wissenschaft in Hannover an und versteht sich als Forum für den Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft, zivilgesellschaftlicher Praxis und Öffentlichkeit.Ausgangspunkt der Tagung ist die Beobachtung, dass aktuelle feministische Forschung zwar differenzierte Analysen zu Geschlecht, Intersektionalität, Care, Migration, Digitalisierung und gesellschaftlicher Transformation hervorgebracht hat, zentrale Analyseebenen und Forschungstraditionen jedoch häufig nebeneinanderstehen. Insbesondere die Verbindung mikrosozialer Perspektiven mit makrosoziologischen Gesellschaftsanalysen, die Verknüpfung digitaler Öffentlichkeiten mit Fragen epistemischer Autorität sowie das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und politischer Praxis sollen neu diskutiert werden.Ein besonderer Bezugspunkt der Veranstaltung ist das Werk von Regina Becker-Schmidt (1937-2024), die feministische Gesellschaftstheorie mit Kritischer Theorie, sozialpsychologischen und gesellschaftstheoretischen Perspektiven verband und damit bis heute wichtige Impulse für feministische Forschung liefert. Die Kritische Theorie der Frankfurter Schule widmete sich der Analyse gesellschaftlicher Herrschaftsverhältnisse und den Bedingungen autoritärer und totalitärer Entwicklungen. Ihre Ansätze haben damit gegenwärtig wieder eine hohe Aktualität gewonnen.Da feministische Wissenschaft aus der neuen Frauenbewegung hervorgegangen ist, soll auch das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und politischem Engagement diskutiert werden. Und auch die sachliche Analyse tiefer liegender Konflikte innerhalb der feministischen Bewegung gehören angesichts zunehmend emotionaler Debatten wieder einmal auf die Tagesordnung.Wir laden Beiträge aus den Sozial-, Kultur-, Geistes-, Medien- und Literaturwissenschaften sowie aus aktivistischen, künstlerischen und praxisorientierten Kontexten ein.Mögliche Fragestellungen und Themenfelder inkludieren:1. Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und feministische BewegungWie verändert sich das Verhältnis von feministischer Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und politischer Bewegung?Welche Rolle spielen Gender Studies als Gegenstand von gesellschaftlichen und politischen Debatten?Wie lassen sich innerhalb der Gender Studies konstruktive Wissenschaftskritik und die Reflexion eigener wissenschaftlicher Praktiken fördern und mit der Offenheit gegenüber gesellschaftlicher Praxis verbinden?2. Mikro- und makrosoziologische Perspektiven feministischer GesellschaftsanalyseWie lassen sich Subjektbildung, zwischenmenschliche Praktiken und ideologische, sozialpsychologische und ökonomische Strukturen als Gesamtzusammenhang denken?Welche neuen Differenzen ergeben sich innerhalb feministischer und geschlechterpolitischer Kollektive durch Migration, Care-Arbeit, Prekarität, Arbeitsteilung und andere strukturbildende Kategorien?Wie verändern digitale und hybride Öffentlichkeiten das gesamtgesellschaftliche Geschlechterverhältnis?3. Digitale Öffentlichkeiten, Sichtbarkeit und epistemische AutoritätWie entstehen Sichtbarkeit, Glaubwürdigkeit und Autorität in digitalen Räumen?Welche Rolle spielen Plattformen, Affekt und Authentizität für feministische Wissensproduktion?Wie verändern digitale Kommunikationsformen wissenschaftliche und politische Öffentlichkeiten?4. Demokratie, Widerstand und gesellschaftlicher WandelWelche Handlungsmöglichkeiten eröffnen postkoloniale, materialistische, queerfeministische oder intersektionale Ansätze in Bezug auf Gewalt im Geschlechterverhältnis?Wie können demokratische Handlungsräume und solidarische Öffentlichkeiten neu gedacht werden? Wie lassen sich staatliche Schutzfunktionen in Demokratien aus unterschiedlichen feministischen Perspektiven analysieren und bewerten?EinreichungBitte senden Sie ein Abstract (max. 300 Wörter) sowie eine kurze biografische Notiz (max. 100 Wörter) bis zum 24.08.2026 an: feministische.tage@phil.uni-hannover.deTeilnehmende bekommen bis spätestens 07.09.2026 Bescheid. Anmeldung bis 22.10.2026.Die Konferenz findet überwiegend in deutscher Sprache statt; Beiträge auf Englisch sind willkommen. Wir freuen uns insbesondere über Einreichungen von early career researchers, Promovierenden, Studierenden sowie Vertreter*innen zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen.
- Deadline: 30 August 2026 The social and political developments of recent years have once again brought questions of gender, sexuality, and intersectional inequality in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, as well as in East Germany, to the forefront of public and academic debates. This development has been accompanied by growing attention to the diversity of gender-related lived realities, to processes of social transformation, and to new theoretical and empirical approaches within gender studies.Across Europe, increasingly strong authoritarian tendencies can be observed, and Eastern Europe is no exception. In recent years, women’s and gender studies in particular, as well as achievements in gender equality, policy, and law, have become targets of political attacks. A prominent example is Hungary, where the accreditations of gender studies degree programs were revoked by a government decree in 2018, and the Central European University moved its main campus from Budapest to Vienna. The delegitimization of gender-related research is often merely the entry point for a broader delegitimization of critical knowledge production. Gender equality policies, women’s rights, and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex*, and queer (LGBTQI*) individuals are also under considerable pressure to justify their legitimacy in various countries. In Hungary, adoption by same-sex couples was banned in 2020. In Poland, some municipalities and local politicians have called for LGBTQI-free zones, and a far-reaching abortion ban has been implemented. In Slovakia, the government has decided to recognize only two genders. While gender and sexual diversity are being resisted and opposed in this way, antifeminist positions, traditional family models, and masculinist ideas are simultaneously gaining strength. In East Germany, public debates in recent years have therefore focused less on women and more on men. On the one hand, men are portrayed as losers of the post-socialist transformation process, and on the other hand, in light of the success of far-right parties, they are described as a problem for democracy. Such broad generalizations not only demonstrate how societal diagnoses of crisis become gendered but also raise questions about the origins of these attributions, what important distinctions are lost in the process, and how these narratives are connected to social transformation, regional identities, political orientations, and diverse constructions of gender.Against the backdrop of these diverse developments and thematic priorities, the issue of feministische studien 2/2027 seeks to strengthen transnational exchange within gender studies, to make regional perspectives more visible, and to promote comparative as well as intersectional-transnational approaches. The issue will center both, the shared trajectories of development and the differences between post-socialist and post-Soviet contexts as well as East Germany. We are particularly interested in identifying the current transformations taking place in these regions and exploring the theoretical impulses they generate for gender studies at large.We welcome not only scholarly analyses but also reports on local developments and insights into ongoing research projects that address the following questions—or related issues beyond them—from a feminist perspective:Which developments are currently emerging with regard to gender relations, gender studies, and feminist movements in the various regions of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, as well as in East Germany?What assumptions are embedded in the cultural-historical concepts of “gender” and “the East,” and to what extent are these concepts discursively reproduced in academia, politics, and the media as a supposedly unquestioned and naturally given connection?Is it analytically meaningful to speak of gender relations in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe and East Germany as a whole? If so, what are their defining structural characteristics?In what ways do gender norms and practices differ across, and where do they resemble one another within, Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe and East Germany?What is the current state of gender studies in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe and East Germany, and what lessons can be learned from these contexts regarding the defense of academic freedom?What forms do feminist movements take in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe and East Germany, and what potentially specific challenges do they face? Where are alliances emerging with other movements (such as labor movements, movements defending academic freedom, democracy movements, migration-related initiatives, and queer movements), and where do forms of transnational solidarity develop?From an intersectional perspective, which forms of marginalization and discrimination, but also which forms of political mobilization, become visible in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe and East Germany?What new configurations of gender, work, and care can be observed in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe and in East Germany, and how can they be theorized within the tensions and interrelations of migration, welfare-state arrangements, and global structures of inequality?Extended abstracts (1,000–1,500 words) should be submitted no later than August 30, 2026 to the following three email addresses: Julia Gruhlich (Julia.gruhlich@uni-goettingen.de), Stine Eckert (stine.eckert@wayne.edu) and Regine Othmer (manuskripte@feministische-studien.de). Abstracts may be submitted for the following sections:Research Article: 6.000–8.000 words (max. 9.000)Discussion/Debate Article: 2.000–3.000 wordsIn addition, proposals are welcome for:Conference reports and reviews of monographs or edited volumes: up to 1.200 wordsArtistic works for the section Images and Signs (Bilder und Zeichen).All word counts exclude footnotes and references. Authors will be notified regarding their abstract submissions in early September 2026. Full manuscripts must be submitted by February 28, 2027. Feedback following the double-blind peer-review process will be provided by mid-May 2027. If a manuscript is accepted, revisions need to be submitted by July 30, 2027.
- Deadline: 31 August 2026 The digital transformation of work is reshaping economies, organizations, and everyday labor practices across sectors and diverse global contexts. Advances in artificial intelligence, automation, and data-driven systems create new opportunities for innovation and efficiency. At the same time, they pose significant challenges concerning sustainability, equity, and workers’ agency in diverse labor contexts, including platform economies and informal work.Societies as well as public and private organizations face the challenge of balancing efficiency, sustainability, and human-centered approaches to organizing work. This includes aligning digital technologies with ethical principles while addressing regulatory uncertainties and emerging forms of inequality associated with platform-based work, algorithmic management, and data-driven labor practices. Trust in emerging technologies can be strengthened through transparency and ethical design.At the same time, new approaches to education and training are essential for ensuring people’s participation and agency in the digital transformation of work.We invite fellowship proposals from all disciplines that advance cutting-edge research and foster inter- or transdisciplinary exchange (e.g., with unions, companies, civil society organizations, or policymakers). Proposals should explore how the digital transformation of work can be shaped in socially responsible, participatory, human-centered, and sustainable ways. We particularly encourage projects that examine these transformations across different global and socio-economic contexts.Proposals may address questions such as:How do AI systems, data-driven forms of work, automation, and platform economies reshape work processes and conditions in different world regions and labor contexts?How can digital transformation of work be ethically justified, and which values should be prioritized when sustainability, social responsibility, efficiency, and profit orientation come into conflict?Which societal, organizational, and economic conditions foster or impede human-centered digital transformation of work?What forms of governance and regulation are needed to strengthen participation, fairness, and accountability in digitally transformed workplaces?What role does corporate social responsibility (CSR) play in promoting ethical business practices and fair working conditions in contexts of digital transformation?Which ethical, legal, and social challenges (e.g., bias, data privacy concerns) arise from the use of AI in the workplace, and how can trustworthy systems be designed to support transparency, fairness, and accountability?What ethical and social challenges reduce trust in AI-supported learning, and how can they be addressed?What skills, forms of knowledge, and educational approaches are necessary to prepare people for working with AI while ensuring that technology augments rather than replaces human capabilities?How can participatory design approaches ensure that employees have agency in shaping their digital work environments?Please submit your application by 31 August 2026 via the application form on our website. Further information on the fellowship program and the application process can be found in our general open call.
- Deadline: 31 August 2026 Die „No-Kings-Proteste“ und andere öffentliche Demonstrationen gegen die Trump-Regierung in den USA, die Proteste in Belarus, der Türkei, Serbien und – gegenwärtig eskalierend – im Iran, wo Frauen in den letzten Jahren immer wieder auch gegen eine ihnen vom Mullah-Regime auferlegte Kopftuchpflicht aufgetreten sind, oder die seit 2012 aktive „One Billion Rising“-Bewegung gegen Gewalt an Frauen und Mädchen, die landesweiten Frauenstreiks in der Schweiz 2019 und 2023 … das sind nur einige Beispiele der jüngsten Zeit, die zeigen, wie aktuell das Thema Protest ist. In einer Welt, in der autoritäre Regime und rechtspopulistische oder rechtsextreme Bewegungen sowie kriegerische Gewalteskalation zur Durchsetzung politischer und nationaler Interessen vielerorts die Oberhand gewinnen, wehren sich gleichzeitig immer mehr Menschen gegen diese Entwicklungen. Sie treten millionenfach gegen Entdemokratisierung und die Ausgrenzung und Verfolgung von Minderheiten, das Zurückschrauben erkämpfter Rechte, liberaler oder geschlechteregalitärer Positionen auf – oft unter Einsatz ihres Lebens.Die gewählten Protestformen sind dabei vielfältig und facettenreich. Sie knüpfen einerseits an tradierte Formen des Protests gegen Obrigkeiten, Unterdrückung und soziale Missstände an und gestalten sich andererseits erfinderisch, kreativ, treten lautstark an die Öffentlichkeit oder werden im Geheimen, im Untergrund praktiziert … was je nach divergierenden nationalen, politischen, sozialen, ethnischen, altersspezifischen, religiösen Kontexten unterschiedlich ausgestaltet wird und dabei immer auch ‚vergeschlechtlicht‘ verläuft – ganz abgesehen davon, dass Frauen oder Mitglieder der LGBTQIA+-Community nicht nur an vielen Protestbewegungen partizipieren, sondern auch ihre eigenen Formen des Protests entwickeln.Vor diesem aktuellen Hintergrund wird sich die Ausgabe von L’Homme. Z.F.G. 1/2028 dem Thema Protest widmen. Einzureichende Vorschläge dafür könnten an ältere, vor allem in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren veröffentlichte frauen- und geschlechtergeschichtliche Arbeiten zu historischen Protestformen seit dem Mittelalter anknüpfen und diese – methodisch-theoretisch neu fundiert – weiterentwickeln (z.B. in Bezug auf Bauernkriege, Ketzerbewegungen, „Weiberkriege“ und „Hungerkrawalle“, städtische Aufstände und Unruhen, Revolutionen, Streiks und ArbeiterInnenbewegungen, StudentInnenbewegungen, Proteste in den diversen Frauenbewegungen, in der Antikriegsbewegung, der Umweltbewegung, antikoloniale Protestformen …). Dabei sollen auch Verschiebungen oder Veränderungen der Perspektiven, Ansätze und Themen der feministischen Protestgeschichte deutlich werden – sei es in Hinblick auf Akteur:innen oder die Anbindung an politische/soziale Bewegungen, oder sei es hinsichtlich der Konstruktion historischer Leitfiguren für erfolgreichen, aber auch niedergeschlagenen Protest. Das gilt ebenso für die untersuchten Formen und Motive, deren Bandbreite durch globale Dimensionen von Protest zusätzlich erweitert wird. Von Interesse sind außerdem nicht nur bewegungsorientierte, sondern auch individuell praktizierte Protestformen.Wir bitten um Proposals (in Deutsch oder Englisch) im Umfang von etwa einer Seite sowie einen kurzen CV bis spätestens Ende August 2026, an die L’Homme-Redaktion sowie an Christa Hämmerle und Ingrid Bauer. Die Abgabe der Beiträge (im Umfang von jeweils ca. 50.000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen), die dann einem Peer-Review-Verfahren unterliegen, ist für Ende März 2027 geplant.lhomme.geschichte@univie.ac.atchrista.haemmerle@univie.ac.atingrid.Bauer@plus.ac.at
- Deadline: 01 September 2026 In cooperation with NADIA BRÜGGER (StopFemizid)129 femi(ni)cides. That is the number of patriarchal murders recorded by the research project Stop-Femizid in Switzerland since 2020 (as of 25 February 2026). There is still no official body in Switzerland to record and analyse femi(ni)cides. The widespread everyday violence to which women and queer persons are exposed has once again become a major focus in recent years, thanks to groundwork laid by the feminist movement. The terms “femicide” and “feminicide” are used within activist and academic circles to accurately describe patriarchal killings of women, particularly in the context of violence within heterosexual relationships, and to highlight their political dimension. Femi(ni)cides are, however, merely the “tip of the iceberg” of gender-based violence. The murdering of women occurs within a social atmosphere that enables and promotes patriarchal violence. According to the binary gender system, which defines and devalues femininity, male violence against women is not a flaw in the system, but one of the central pillars of capitalist patriarchy.The feminist movement Ni Una Menos (English: “Not One Less”) fights against femi(ni)cide whilst simultaneously articulating a vision of a non-violent world for all human beings. This requires a fundamental transformation of our economic systems, ways of life and relationships, as well as a feminist response to how we treat bodies, capital and land. We wish to stimulate the following and further research questions: What (queer-)feminist and intersectional analyses are needed today to understand femi(ni)cides in their full implications for society? What methods and approaches do explicitly anti-racist, abolitionist and transfeminist analyses offer that we can draw upon? Which concepts are particularly suited to the precise analysis of femi(ni)cides? Which strategies should be adopted to resolutely and collectively oppose the “war on women” (Verónica Gago), especially in times of anti-feminist backlash and fascist tendencies?Ideas/abstracts (ca. 1,500 characters) by September 1, 2026Articles (ca. 8,000 characters) by December 15, 2026Contact: Nina Seiler, redaktion@femwiss.ch
- Deadline: 01 September 2026 Femizid ist die schwerwiegendste Form geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt: Die Tötung einer Frau, weil sie eine Frau ist. Femizide sind nicht historische oder regionale Einzelfälle. Sie sind Teil des Kontinuums der Gewalt gegen Frauen und treten überall dort auf, wo patriarchale Strukturen bestehen.Obwohl es bereits zuvor Ansätze gab, geschlechtsspezifische Morde an Frauen zu definieren, wurde das Konzept des Femizids erst im Anschluss an den Internationalen Prozess gegen Verbrechen an Frauen ausgearbeitet, der im März 1976 in Brüssel stattfand (Giacinti 2025). Diana H. Russell, eine Teilnehmerin der Veranstaltung, verfasste später gemeinsam mit Jill Radford das grundlegende Buch Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing (1992). Ebenfalls in den 1990er-Jahren konnte Karen Stout zeigen, dass die tödliche Gefahr für Frauen vor allem von ihren Partnern und männlichen Familienmitgliedern im eigenen Zuhause ausgeht («intimate femicide»). In den letzten 10 Jahren fanden die Begriffe «Femizid» oder auch «Feminizid» schliesslich breiteren Eingang in die Medienlandschaft, in strafrechtliche und politische Diskussionen, aber auch in die Geschichtswissenschaften. Eine entscheidende Rolle spielte dabei das feministische Kollektiv «Ni una menos», das in Argentinien seit 2015 gegen systemischen «feminicidio» auf die Strasse geht und dabei auch auf die historische und aktuelle Rolle des Staates (insbesondere der Militärjunta) in der Geschichte geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt an Frauen hinweist.Dieses Themenheft geht davon aus, dass «Femizid» nicht nur am Einzelfall zu diskutieren ist, sondern in einem «continuum féminicidaire» (Taraud 2022): Femizid wird von patriarchalen Strukturen ermöglicht – dies gilt es historisch in den Blick zu nehmen, auch um die maskuline Täterschaft bei Femiziden nicht aus dem Blick zu verlieren. Denn historische und soziologische Forschungen haben die Vorstellung widerlegt, dass Femizid lediglich Ausdruck von Affekt oder «Mord aus Leidenschaft» sei. Historisch gesehen wurde Gewalt gegen Frauen immer durch Stereotypisierung (z.B. Hexerei, Ketzerei), Diskriminierung (z.B. Prostitution, Abtreibung) und ungleiche Machtverhältnisse (z.B. Ehe-, Erbrecht, Zugang zu Bildung, politische Partizipation etc.) geschürt und legitimiert.Die Heftbeiträge sollen multiperspektivisch unterschiedliche historische Settings über alle Epochen hinweg in den Blick nehmen, in denen Femizide stattfanden. Zu denken ist etwa an «die eigenen vier Wände», staatliche Institutionen, koloniale Expansion, Kriege, Gesundheitsversorgung, Erziehung, Medien oder Popkultur. Beiträge können danach fragen, wie soziale, ökonomische, kulturelle oder religiöse Vorstellungen – zum Beispiel von «Besitz», «Opfer», «Ehre» oder «Leidenschaft» – auf die Anerkennung geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt wirkten und Konsequenzen für die Sanktionierung, Strafmilderung oder gar -freiheit zeitigten. Von besonderer Relevanz ist zudem die Frage nach den historischen Akteurschaften und den Taten selbst. Erwünscht sind schliesslich Heftbeiträge, die eine historische Perspektivierung von Femizid mit seinen komplexen intersektionalen Verschränkungen mit anderen Diskriminierungsformen (Rassismus, Kolonialismus, Transphobismus, Klassismus, Ableismus, Ageismus etc.) in den Blick nehmen. Grundsätzlich sollen sich die Beiträge zum einen mit der Frage auseinandersetzen, wie Femizide aus historischer und (trans)epochaler Perspektive zu diskutieren sind, zum anderen nach den historischen Bedingungen fragen, die sie als systemisches und persistentes Phänomen geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt an Frauen immer wieder hervorgebracht haben.Der geplante Heftschwerpunkt wird als traverse-Ausgabe 1/2028 erscheinen. Die erste Version der Manuskripte erwarten wir bis zum 15. Januar 2027. Die Artikel sollten eine Maximallänge von 30’000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen nicht überschreiten. Die Beiträge durchlaufen ein double blind peer review-Verfahren. Für die formalen Richtlinien und die redaktionellen Anweisungen siehe https://revue-traverse.ch/schreiben-fuer-traverse/formale-vorgaben-fuer-traverse/.Wir laden Interessierte ein, bis zum 1. September 2026 ein Abstract (ca. 400 Wörter), ein kurzer CV (½ Seite) sowie eine Auflistung der Publikationen an Pauline Milani, Matthias Ruoss und Isabelle Schürch zu senden.
- Deadline: 15 September 2026 Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2026At a time when feminist achievements appear increasingly fragile across many parts of the world, amid the rise of right-wing mobilizations, the rightward shift of governments and judicial institutions, and declining trust in international institutions, a pressing question arises: how can feminist futures be organized?This Special Issue argues that one important yet still largely neglected part of the answer lies in standards. Conceived not as neutral devices of coordination but as contested political technologies, standards are infrastructures through which feminist futures are organized, mediated, and potentially constrained. Although feminist scholarship has long examined how feminist values are mobilized through social movements, transnational networks, organizations, and states, standards have remained a surprisingly marginal concern, particularly striking given their centrality in sociology, science and technology studies, political science, and organizational studies.Following Bowker and Star (1999) and Timmermans and Epstein (2010), we approach standards as collectively agreed-upon rules that travel across sites, endure over time, and enable coordination across heterogeneous actors, practices, and infrastructures. Often barely visible yet deeply embedded in everyday life, they can function as forms of soft law, generating substantial regulatory and governmental effects within, between, and beyond organizations, often without direct democratic legitimation. As political and organizational infrastructures, standards are sites through which social order and equality are coordinated and contested. They do not merely mirror existing inequalities; they actively participate in producing, stabilizing, and organizing them. As such, standards are politically ambivalent: they can naturalize and entrench inequality, but they can equally give feminist demands durable organizational form. Empirical research makes this ambivalence concrete. Women remain systematically underrepresented in organizations and committees involved in standards development, and the resulting gender-insensitive standards can negatively affect women's safety, health, and income. They may also reproduce North-South hierarchies by universalizing externally defined norms and marginalizing situated knowledges. Yet standards have equally become objects of feminist intervention: in several countries, standards have been developed explicitly to promote gender equality and diversity, and more than 86 standardization bodies worldwide have committed to developing gender-responsive standards, signaling that standardization is increasingly recognized as a terrain of feminist politics. This Special Issue takes that ambivalence as its point of departure. We invite theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions that examine standards as a missing object of feminist organization studies and as a key medium through which feminist futures are organized, institutionalized, and contested. We are especially interested in contributions that address questions such as:How are feminist demands translated into standards, and what is gained, lost, or transformed in that process?How do social inequalities shape the development of standards, and whose knowledge counts in standardization processes?How are standards stabilized and enforced through audits, certification regimes, and broader governance infrastructures?How do standards travel across organizational and social contexts, and what ordering effects do they produceWhat are the potentials and limits of standards as tools for feminist politics, particularly in contexts of democratic backsliding and anti-gender mobilization?We welcome contributions from feminist organization studies, sociology, science and technology studies, political science, international political economy, and adjacent fields. We encourage both empirically grounded and theoretically oriented submissions, and particularly welcome work that engages with postcolonial, intersectional, and trans-inclusive perspectives.Submission Process and TimelineInterested contributors are invited to participate in a two stage submission process. In the first stage, abstracts of no more than 500 words can be submitted in English, German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese to matthias.schneider@fu-berlin.de by 15 September 2026. Abstracts should outline the argument, empirical material or theoretical approach, and relevance to the Special Issue themes. Contributors will be notified of editorial decisions by early October 2026.Selected contributors will be invited to an online authors' workshop in December 2026, at which work-in-progress drafts will be discussed. The workshop is designed to strengthen thematic coherence across contributions and to support the development of papers prior to peer review. Participation in the workshop is expected of all invited contributors.In the second stage, full papers must be submitted in English by 27 January 2027 via the Feminism and Organization Editorial Manager platform. Translation from the abstract language into English is the responsibility of the authors. Detailed submission instructions are available at: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/feminism-and-organization/author-instructions#submissions.Subject to the review process, the Special Issue is planned for publication in 2028. Questions regarding submission should be directed to feminism-Organization@bristol.ac.uk, and questions regarding the thematic scope of the Special Issue or potential contributions to Matthias Schneider at matthias.schneider@fu-berlin.de.
- Deadline: 15 September 2026 How can feminist pedagogies inspire and inform transformative, sustainable, and generative ways of learning, making, and living? We invite chapter proposals that engage with these challenges for the upcoming edited volume Transformative Feminist Pedagogies for More-than-human Futures, which will be published as part of the new ATGENDER series Gender: Theories, Troubles, Transformations with Bloomsbury. Academic and educational institutions are increasingly shaped by neoliberal restructuring, the marketisation of knowledge, and the reduction of teaching and learning to measurable outputs, products, and services. At the same time, educational spaces are witnessing a growing enthusiasm for AI-driven solutions that often reproduce technologically deterministic assumptions while sidelining creativity, care, critical reflection, and collective forms of inquiry. This volume responds to these developments by foregrounding pedagogical practices that embrace uncertainty, relationality, embodied knowledge, and experimentation. Grounded in feminist commitments to care, justice, and the transformation of gendered, sexual, colonial, and ecological relations, we seek contributions that reimagine education as a site of critical, collaborative, and transformative practice. We are interested in pedagogies that move beyond institutional and disciplinary boundaries, opening space for alternative ways of learning, teaching, and producing knowledge. We welcome feminist, queer, decolonial, Indigenous, and other non-hegemonic approaches that engage with artistic practice, activism, community organising, environmental justice, and speculative thought. We understand more-than-human futures broadly, encompassing pedagogies that cultivate new forms of relationality across species, technologies, environments, bodies, communities, and diverse ways of knowing, while challenging normative assumptions about gender, sexuality, humanity, and social life.For this volume we explicitly invite contributions that highlight anti- and post-methodological interventions that privilege process, affect, embodiment, and slowness over standardisation and optimisation. These may include practices such as mending (needle felting, patching, darning), generative somatics (body attunement), anarchiving (artistic experimentation, improvisational collaboration, DIY skill sharing) and other process-based pedagogical practices that resist extractive models of education. Inspired by critiques of the "banking model of education" (hooks, 1994), we aim to explore pedagogies that cultivate collaborative, ecological, and speculative futures.Central ThemesWe welcome proposals on, but are not limited to, the following areas:Feminist, Queer, Trans, and Decolonial Pedagogies: Approaches that challenge normative assumptions about gender, sexuality, embodiment, care, kinship, and belonging while engaging with intersectional, Indigenous, and non-Western ways of knowing and learning.More-than-human and Ecological Pedagogies: Practices that rethink human exceptionalism and cultivate ecological awareness through multispecies, environmental, and relational approaches to education.Artistic, Embodied, and Experimental Practices: Contributions exploring fibre arts, theatre, spatial design, performance, making, somatic practices, games, speculative methods, and other creative pedagogies that expand educational possibilities.Learning Beyond the Classroom: Community-based, activist, outdoor, informal, and collaborative educational practices that stretch and reimagine institutional learning environments.Critical Technology and AI Pedagogies: Explorations of how digital technologies and AI shape education, including pedagogical practices that question, resist, repurpose, or move beyond automation, algorithmic governance, platformisation, technological determinism, and solutionist imaginaries.Speculative Futures: Pedagogies that imagine alternative conceptualisations of time, place, kinship, spirit, relationality, and collective futures.Contribution GuidelinesWe welcome proposals from scholars, educators, artists, activists, community organisers, and practitioners committed to transformative feminist pedagogies. We particularly encourage submissions that draw on queer, decolonial, Indigenous, anti-colonial, alternative, non-hegemonic, and lived pedagogical practices, as well as collaborations across academic and non-academic contexts.The volume will be edited by Sanne Koevoets (Erasmus University College) and Karolina Szpyrko (Regent's University London).Submission InstructionsPlease submit:an abstract (maximum 500 words)a short biography (maximum 150 words)by 15 September 2026 to karolina.szpyrko@regents.ac.uk.Selected contributors will be invited to submit full chapters by March 2027. The volume is expected to be published in 2028.
- Deadline: 15 September 2026 This special issue explores the contemporary challenges facing feminist anthropology at the intersection of tensions both internal and external to the discipline. It examines how what we call the “categories of emancipation” circulate across different social, political, and intellectual contexts, becoming the object of contestation, transformation, and conflicting appropriations.General Guidelines:We welcome contributions in any of the journal's five languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese.Submissions should:be grounded in clearly identifiable ethnographic research;explicitly engage with the intersections between feminist, queer, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives;examine the effects of translation, circulation, conflict, and generative processes;avoid purely theoretical or broad survey papers.The aim of this issue is to explore, through ethnographic inquiry, how feminist and queer anthropology is being reshaped by the contemporary transformation of regimes of power.Submission Process:Authors are invited to submit:an abstract of approximately 3,000 characters outlining the field site, methodology, and main argument, in Word or LibreOffice format, together with a short bibliography;a brief biographical note of no more than 150 words.Proposals should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and email address. They should be sent to both, redaction.ch-cp@ehess.fr and anthropologiefeministequeer@proton.me with the subject line “CH/CP – Feminist and Queer Anthropology” no later than 15 September 2026. Authors will be notified of the editorial committee's decision by 1 October 2026. Full articles should be between 25,000 and 40,000 characters, including notes and references. Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and prepared according to the journal's style guidelines available on its website. They should also include a 3,000-character abstract in both French and English, in addition to the language of the article if it is different. Final manuscripts must be submitted by 22 January 2027.The selection process will take place in two stages. Following an initial review of the abstracts by the guest editors in consultation with the editorial board, selected authors will be invited to submit a full manuscript, which will then undergo double-blind peer review.Calendar:Receipt of abstracts: 15 September 2026Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2026Submission of full articles: 22 January 2027
- Deadline: 15 September 2026 In Deutschland tobt eine hoch brisante und kontroverse Diskussion um die Haushaltspolitik der Regierung. Entlang der Stichworte: Sondervermögen, Schuldenbremse, Senkung der Sozial- und Erhöhung der Rüstungsausgaben einerseits und fehlender Investitionen in die öffentliche Infrastruktur, Verknappung der öffentlichen Daseinsfürsorge und mangelndem Erhalt und Ausbau der kommunalen Dienste auf der anderen Seite wird die Konfliktlinie deutlich: Welche Funktion hat ein öffentlicher Haushalt in einer Strukturkrise?Öffentliche Haushalts- bzw. Budgetplanung ist in Zahlen gegossene Politik. Finanzielle Mittel und Ressourcen werden den politischen Zielsetzungen und damit verbundenen Maßnahmen zugeordnet. Welche tatsächliche Wirkung Verteilungsentscheidungen haben, wird in Deutschland, im Unterschied zu anderen Ländern, allerdings selten untersucht.Ins Zentrum unserer Fachtagung wollen wir die Frage nach der Geschlechtsblindheit der öffentlichen Haushalte stellen. In der Steuerpolitik und bei den Ausgabenentscheidungen wird selten bis gar nicht diskutiert, welche Auswirkungen diese auf die Lebensverhältnisse von Frauen und Männern haben. Dabei geht es nicht nur um den Ausbau von Kinderbetreuung, denn auch die Entscheidung, welche Verkehrswege ausgebaut werden, wie sicher öffentliche Räume gestaltet sind oder welche Infrastruktur für pflegende Angehörige zur Verfügung steht, hat unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auf die Lebensbedingungen und -führung der Geschlechter.Nach GG-Artikel 3 Satz 3 ist der Staat aufgefordert die Geschlechtergerechtigkeit aktiv zu fördern. Der richtige Ort dafür ist der Haushalt. Gender Budgeting setzt bewusst geschlechtsspezifische Ziele und fordert die Evaluierung der Wirkung von Maßnahmen ein.Daran wollen wir bei der efas-Tagung am 4.12.2026 in Berlin mit folgenden Fragen anknüpfen:Was wissen finanzwissenschaftliche Expertinnen über die Verteilungswirkungen öffentlicher Haushaltspolitik?Welche Akteure – Bund, Länder, Gemeinden – profitieren bzw. verlieren und welche Auswirkungen hat das auf die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen?Welche Schwerpunkte werden im aktuellen Sondervermögen gesetzt und was lässt sich daraus für dessen Gender Impacts ableiten?Gibt es Beispiele auf Bundes-, Länder- oder Gemeindeebene, die – trotz der restriktiven Rahmenbedingungen – zur Geschlechtergerechtigkeit beitragen?Können wir positive Impulse von der Europäischen Kommission und ihren Instrumenten erwarten?Wie bewerten wir die diversen Vorschläge, die diskutiert werden, von der Abschaffung der Mitversicherung in der Krankenkasse bis zum Ehegattensplitting?Was müssen die zentralen Forderungen einer feministischen Finanz- und Steuerpolitik sein?Wir möchten auf der Tagung nicht nur eingeladene Expertinnen zu Wort kommen lassen, sondern rufen mit diesem call for papers alle Interessierten auf, Vorschläge für Kurzvorträge (10 Minuten) in Form eines Abstracts einzureichen.Darüber hinaus wird es bei der Tagung – wie in jedem Jahr – das thematisch offene Forschungsforum geben, das insbesondere Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen die Möglichkeit eröffnet, laufende oder kürzlich abgeschlossene Forschungsarbeiten – entweder als Vortrag oder als Poster – zu präsentieren und zur Diskussion zu stellen.Wir freuen uns über eingereichte Vorschläge/abstracts bis zum 15.9.2026 an info@efas-netzwerk.de
- Deadline: 28 September 2026 Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à contribuer à un ouvrage collectif intitulé « Les violences sexuelles de genre dans le milieu sportif. Une perspective féministe ». Cet ouvrage vise à croiser les regards disciplinaires (histoire, sociologie, droit, anthropologie, sciences de l’information et de la communication, études littéraires et cinématographiques) afin d’envisagerla multiplicité des logiques sociales qui créent, maintiennent et légitiment les violences sexuelles fondées sur le genre dans le milieu du sport mais aussi les résistances qui s’y déploient.Nous encourageons les contributions émanant de tout·es les chercheur·euses et les professionnel·les du sport ayant une mission de recherche. Une attention particulière sera portée aux contributions de doctorant ·es ou jeunes docteur·es.Cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans le projet RéViS – « La réception/appropriation des thèses féministes dans les films portant sur les violences sexuelles dans le sport », porté par le CRESCO (UR 7419) de l’université de Toulouse et financé par la Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Toulouse (MSHS-T).La publication est prévue pour décembre 2026 aux Presses Universitaires de Limoges.Modalités de soumission et d’expertise1. Les propositions d’articles, en langue française, sont à envoyer avant le 31 mars 2026 à Siyao Lin (siyao.lin819@gmail.com) et à Mélie Fraysse (melie.fraysse@utoulouse.fr).La proposition devrait inclure :l’axe ou les axes choisis ; le titre de l’article de 100mots maximum (un sous-titre est possible) ; un résumé détaillé de 500 mots maximum – 4000 signes- présentant la problématique, la méthodologie et les résultats principaux ; 4-6 mots-clés ; un court CV de 150 mots maximum incluant le statut, l’affiliation institutionnelle et les coordonnées de l’auteur·ice ou des auteur·ices.2. Les résultats de la pré-sélection seront communiqués fin avril 2026. Les articles complets sont à envoyer avant le 28 septembre 2026. Tous les articles feront l’objet d’une expertise scientifique en double aveugle. La publication de l’ouvrage est prévue pour décembre 2026.
- Deadline: 30 September 2026 About the Gender Law ConferenceEvery two years, the Swiss institute for feminist legal studies and gender law (FRI) brings together researchers, practitioners and activists in an international conference to discuss questions at the intersection of feminism and law.Our upcoming Gender Law Conference 2027 is an interdisciplinary space for all those who engage with queer-feminist perspectives on law and society. This time, we bring art and law into dialogue. We ask: what becomes visible when injustice is negotiated not only in legal paragraphs, but in images, performances, or literary texts? What can artistic forms contribute to a queer-feminist critique of law? Lawyers, artists, cultural practitioners, theorists, and activists will think together about how law and art challenge and enrich one another.The conference is multilingual (DE / FR / EN) and thrives on exchange between people with different backgrounds, disciplines, and perspectives.Call for papersWe invite contributions for panels and artistic contributions at the intersection of art and law from queer-feminist perspectives. We are particularly interested in contributions that cross disciplinary, geographic, and professional boundaries. Contributions are welcome in German, French, and English. We invite contributions addressing one or more of the following four panels:Panel 1: Art as an Extension of Legal Thinking and PracticePanel 2: How Law Shapes Access to ArtPanel 3: Art in the Age of Artificial IntelligencePanel 4: Cultural Heritage and War: Legal PerspectivesSubmission GuidelinesWe ask that you to submit your contribution this time via a short online form rather than by email. Please prepare a brief bio (max. 150 words), an abstract (max. 500 words), and the panel you are addressing. If you have difficulties accessing the form or prefer another route, please contact us directly.Contakt: conference@genderlaw.ch
- Deadline: 15 October 2026 The current debate concerning climate change brings us face to face with issues such as vulnerability and the interrelations between destruction, resilience, and regeneration affecting human beings and nature alike. The situation asks us to call into question the relationship between the human and nature, and to consider a repositioning and decentering of the human. Within this discourse, scholars, musicians, and artists have begun to ask how artistic processes can contribute to these lines of thought and action, as well as how a rethinking of the position of the human can affect our understanding of music and art, as well as the relationship of these to nature.Ecomusicology has especially begun to address these questions. It can be defined from various angles, but can at a basic level be understood as “the study of music, culture, and nature in all the complexities of those terms…that considers musical and sonic issues, both textual and performative related to ecology and the natural environment (Aaron S. Allen, 2014). Concerns in intersectional “ecofeminism” suggest a productive overlap with this field of study, especially in the sense that ecofeminism takes the “position that there are important connections between how one treats women, people of color, and the underclass on the one hand and how one treats the nonhuman natural environment on the other” (Karen J. Warren, 2000).This conference seeks to broaden both areas of study while bringing them together. What relationships between music, aesthetic reflection, and artistic practice emerge from thinking about ecomusicology and gender studies together? More specific questions could be, but are not limited to:In what ways do gender, music, sound and nature relate to one another?How might we look anew at historical concept of natures in music and art—such as nature as a place longed after, a place for living, and a threatening force—given new perspectives in ecomusicology and ecofeminism?How might space-specific compositions and sound art incorporate gender aspects in relationship to nature? What new methods, techniques, and forms of expression emerge from these practices? How do diverse perspectives on nature, corporeality, and gender play a role here? How does nature’s own agency affect our understanding of creativity, authorship, and compositional practices in these cases?The question of a repositioning or decentering of the human can initiate major changes in ontological thinking. To what extent is musical thinking affected by these debates, and what artistic results and challenges open up through these changes?What connections are there between posthuman feminism, ecofeminism, and ecomusicology? To what extent do current approaches in women’s and gender studies consider ecomusicological perspectives?Please send your paper title, abstract (max. 300 words) and short biography (max. 150 words) until October 15, 2026 to the following email address: christa.bruestle@kug.ac.at We will inform candidates of our selection decision by end of November 2026. The languages of the conference are German and English. Talks will be limited to 25 min and 10 min for discussion. We plan a publication of the papers.
- Deadline: 25 October 2026 As part of the swissuniversities project "Transforming Educational Spaces: Addressing Racism, Anchoring Intersectionality," the accompanying publication Missing Chapters will appear in March 2027. The volume brings together diverse perspectives on higher education institutions as racialized spaces, aiming to make visible a range of voices, forms of knowledge, and modes of expression. For selected chapters, we therefore invite public submissions of contributions.So far, the following thematic structure has emerged:Preface – Why This Book?The editors situate the publication within its context of emergence and its aims.Remembering – On What Basis Is This Book Built?Historical and societal contexts of the publication: Swiss postcoloniality, politics of memory, and continuities of colonial entanglements.Arriving – Who (Does Not) Belong?Questions of inclusion and exclusion: who is (in)visible within higher education, and under what conditions?Learning – Who Produces Knowledge?Racism in higher education in its institutional, structural, and violent dimensions. The focus lies on questions of language, power, responsibility, and solidary knowledge production.Enduring – What Do We Carry?Emotional, social, and material burdens within the higher education context, particularly for racialized individuals: mental load, precarity, multiple burdens, classism, and the ambivalences of visibility and emotion.Empowering – Where Does Agency Lie?Forms of resistance, community-building, solidarity, and allyship, as well as practices of agency among those affected.Envisioning – What Has Yet to Be Written?Future perspectives: utopias, visions of belonging, and concrete transformations, as well as new forms of (artificial) knowledge production.Conclusion – (Still) Missing ChaptersThe project team's reflection on perspectives, voices, and gaps that remain missing from the publication.We welcome contributions to all thematic chapters (excluding the preface and conclusion) — in poetic, artistic, literary, and experimental formats. Equally welcome are visual, documentary, and hybrid works, including photography, illustration, comics, collage, visual essays, archival and conversational formats, mapping and data visualizations, as well as performative or audiovisual contributions, provided they can be appropriately documented or prepared for the book publication. The aim is to bring diverse forms of knowledge into an open, transdisciplinary dialogue. The editorial team reserves the right to decide on the publication of contributions.RequirementsSubmission deadline: October 25, 2026, 11:59 PMSubmissions to be sent by email to: anina.mathivannan@unibe.chText contributions: maximum 8,000 characters (including spaces)Contributions in other formats: maximum three A4 pagesAccepted file formats: .docx, .odt (.pdf, .jpg, .png for non-textual contributions)Please submit, alongside your contribution, a separate .pdf file with information about the author(s)/collectiveBy submitting, contributors agree to the potential publication of their work
- Deadline: 01 November 2026 Currently, we are witnessing a dramatic shift to the far-/alt-right and neo-conservatism, and an increasing popularity for illiberalism across diverse policy contexts across the globe. As a consequence of this development, the academic study of gender has been banned in some countries, such as Hungary, and in others – notably the US and the UK – state agencies and courts have taken the decision to define gender as an immutable male-female binary determined by sex assigned at birth. Yet, the implications of these developments are broader and more far-reaching. Anti-gender discourses have gained increasing prominence across multiple global contexts and are increasingly recognized as entry points to far-right political ideologies. Embedded in policy proposals, these discourses also target women’s and gender studies as an academic field including feminist, queer, trans, antiracist and post-colonial scholars. Against this backdrop, this special issue of the European Journal of Women’s Studies opens a space for critical reflection on the alarming contemporary conditions of women’s and gender studies and the political imaginaries informing academic cultures. We seek to explore how recent and ongoing transformations in scientific and governmental policy have affected scholarly practice, academic cultures and learning and teaching experiences, as well as how these changes have shaped the position and status of women’s/gender studies in academia. As guest co-editors, we followed a long trajectory in taking these questions seriously. Ten years ago, in 2016, we published a special issue on women’s and gender studies and changes in academic cultures, in light of the far-reaching transformations taking place in higher education and scientific policy as a result of new public management. For us, it was important to critically explore how neoliberal transformations affected both academic feminism and feminist academics. While analysing the new power dynamics in the neoliberal universities, those discussions also pointed out that women’s and gender studies as a field had sometimes benefited from the neoliberalisation of higher education in complex and ambiguous ways. Since that analysis, however, anti-gender discourses have gained increasing attention and have in diverse ways come to shape the conditions under which women’s/gender studies are conducted. We invite women’s and gender studies scholars to bring feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist and decolonial studies perspectives to bear on a pressing question: how can we understand the contemporary neoliberal condition in its novel guises, as it has become more or less closely interwoven with populist authoritarianism in diverse locations across the globe? Women’s and gender studies scholars in many locations can still take strategic advantage of neoliberalism to gain visibility, funding and recognition – for example through international collaborations and forms of societal engagement. However, a new mode of neoliberal efficiency is increasingly being used to legitimise cuts and closures of gender studies departments. This shift both affects the conditions in which we produce knowledge and the questions that we can ask from critical feminist perspectives. In grappling with this complex shift, we ask: What differences and commonalities characterize the current conditions of women’s and gender studies across diverse contexts? What epistemological, political and ethical questions are raised by these ongoing transformations? How does the global rise of the far-right shape academic governance, and how does it intersect with the neoliberal paradigm of productivity? To what extent do these developments shed new light on longstanding debates within women’s and gender studies – for example concerning the relationship between knowledge and politics, or the possibilities and challenges generated by the institutionalisation of feminism? Today, women’s and gender studies increasingly find themselves at the centre of broader anti-gender and authoritarian political projects in many parts of the world. These developments are transnational in scope but interact with local configurations of institutions, practices and actors in complex ways, posing significant analytical and political challenges. Yet, there remains a lack of research that explores the changing conditions of women’s and gender studies scholarship across local, regional and transnational contexts. We know even less about the variations, overlaps and tensions that characterise these dynamics in diverse international settings. In light of these transformations, we invite scholars to revisit discussions of the “neoliberal academy” in relation to contemporary anti-gender politics and explore the following, as well as other, themes:Transformation of academic labour and knowledge production under conditions of rising far-/alt-right influence and governanceNegotiations, strategies and complicities of feminist scholars under increasing anti-genderismConceptualisation of the contemporary forms of anti-gender politics under women’s and gender studies especially through concepts such as illiberalism, authoritarianism, authoritarian neoliberalism, fascism, and neo-fascismEpistemic, political, and ethical issues raised by the rise of anti-feminism and anti-genderism and its relationship to neoliberal emphasis on productivity, impact, and income generation; including of the university governance’s emphasis on: neoliberal “buzzwords” such as excellence, interdisciplinarity, flexibility, competition, and internationalisation mechanisms of ranking and rating, structures of auditing and quality control, and logics of individualisation and metricisation, the recognition of expertise and academic authority Illiberalism in higher education and governmental policy on the institutionalisation of women’s and gender studies We invite abstracts of 150-200 words. Abstracts should be sent to all three special issue editors: demet.gulcicek.1@warwick.ac.uk; sabine.grenz@univie.ac.at; mia.liinason@genus.lu.se Deadline for abstracts: 1 Nov, 2026 Deadline for articles: 31 March, 2027 Expected publication date: May/June 2028 All articles will be subject to the regular review process organized by the journal. Article length must be between 6,000 and 7,000 inclusive of bibliography, notes etc. and should not have been published previously.Contact details for special issue editors:Assist. Prof. Demet Gülçiçek, Honorary Researcher, Department of Gender Studies, University of Warwick, UK & Department of Sociology, Munzur University, Turkey, demet.gulcicek.1@warwick.ac.ukAssoc.Prof. Sabine Grenz, Research unit for interdisciplinary Gender Studies/Department of Education, University of Vienna, Austria, sabine.grenz@univie.ac.atProfessor Mia Liinason, Division of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden, mia.liinason@genus.lu.se
- Deadline: 09 April 2027 Across the globe, nationalist projects are being renewed and intensified, mobilizing “gender” as a central site of social and political struggle. From anti-gender movements and border regimes to racialized citizenship policies and digital surveillance, contemporary nationalisms draw on gender and related intersectional structures to organize political belonging, govern populations, and delineate whose lives are recognized as part of “the nation.” These developments lend a particular urgency to examining thephilosophical stakes of the relationship between “gender” and “nation” today.This special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy invites philosophicalengagements of the topic of “Gender and Nation.” We seek contributions that interrogate how nations are imagined, experienced, constituted, and governed through genderedlogics that shape various forms of exclusion, political subjectivity, citizenship, and national belonging. While broadly soliciting contributions that (re)consider “the nation” alongside “gender,” we also wish to mark the 30th anniversary of Nira Yuval-Davis’ influential book, Gender and Nation. Yuval-Davis’ work has been foundational for studies on gender and nationalisms, and has inspired countless feminist analyses of the idea and lived experience of “the nation.” In the 30 years since the book’s publication, the world has changed in unimaginable ways, with the last decade, in particular, witnessing a resurgence in nationalist fervour that forms part of a global shift to the right. An assessment of and reengagement with “gender and nation” is therefore not only apt, but arguably more pressing than ever, given that such nationalist resurgence has deployed gendered dynamics that are deeply troubling from a feminist perspective. Questioning whether the idea and attendant realisation of “the nation” can ever be straightforwardly adopted by feminists, this special issue also provides an opportunity to highlight past and present feminist resistance to misogyny and sexist policymaking underlying patriarchal nation-building projects. Indeed, there are numerous examples of feminist activism and scholarship challenging nationalism, but also reconfiguring and claiming “the nation” and “nationalism” in progressive terms. Building on the by now large and influential feminist literature on nationalisms, of which Gender and Nation is a stalwart, we invite contributors to take stock of work on “the nation”, and to present new and promising ways of thinking about the theme of gender and nation. To this end, articles might address, without being limited to, the following questions:How are nationalisms and ideas of “the nation” gendered, classed, and racialized (among others)? What mechanisms and structures underlie the intersectional injustices attendant in patriarchal nationalist projects? What types of nationalisms are particularly harmful to marginalized groups?What has been the impact and the enduring legacy of Yuval-Davis’ book Genderand Nation? How does her work align or compare with other feminists doing work on ‘gender and the nation’? How has feminist work on gender and nationalisms developed or shifted in the last 30 years? Are certain philosophical frameworks more suitable for theorising the gendered construction of ‘the nation’ than others? How have or might recent developments in feminist thought (e.g. in affect theory, new materialism, and disability studies, including work by Sara Ahmed and Jasbir Puar) come to bear upon feminist theorisations of the nation? How can and do feminists oppose patriarchal nation-building (across diverse social, geographical, and political contexts)? How have feminists engaged with nationalist movements that resist colonial occupation and/or oppressive state policies? How do diasporas, exiles, and stateless communities reconfigure the idea of nationhood?Can there be a feminist nationalism? What would this look like?What role do the institutions of family, religion, and state play in nationalisms and how are these often understood and imagined in gendered ways? What particular harms and injustices are attributable to patriarchal conceptualisations of the nation and its realisation via gendered policymaking – e.g. what is the relationship between the gendered nation and sexual violence, the denial of reproductive rights, forced institutionalisation, illicit adoption, andcriminalization of marginalized gender/sexual identity (among others)? How have feminists sought to redress such harms?How do contemporary “anti-gender” movements mobilize nationalism, and how have feminists and queer/trans activists resisted these formations?How are nation-building projects reshaped through digital infrastructures—e.g., social media, algorithmic classification, digital citizenship—and how are theseinflected by gender?How have white nationalist movements co-opted feminist language of “women’s liberation” and “progress” to mark racially marginalized groups, particularly Muslim minority communities, as outsiders to the nation? How has such rhetoric been challenged in feminist scholarship?Contributors working in and across various relevant disciplines (e.g. philosophy, gender studies, sociology, literature, politics, and disability studies) are invited to address thesequestions philosophically, and to do so drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks (such as critical race theory, crip theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory). Wewelcome contributions from diverse social, cultural, and geographical contexts, including those approaching “gender and nation” through decolonial, Indigenous, queer of colour,trans, and Black feminist frameworks.Submissions must be written in English and prepared for anonymous review. We will accept both traditional article submissions (up to 10,000 words long, excluding footnotes and references) and musings (4,000 words including footnotes, but not references). Musings are not merely short research articles; they are often more personal and/or more concerned with current issues than full-fledged academic articles, and they are typically less rooted in particular bodies of literature. However they are approached, Musings should seek to catalyse philosophical reflection on important issues in feminist philosophy. (For examples, please see the recently published Musings on our FirstView pages.) We encourage submissions to be written in a style accessible across relevant disciplines, and with an eye to understanding concrete social and political phenomena. Deadline for submission: 9th April 2027Please submit your original manuscript electronically through the Cambridge University Press online submission and review system ScholarOne. Manuscripts need to be prepared for anonymous review. More information may be found in the Manuscript Preparations Guidelines.For any questions on this special issue, contact the guest editors: Clara Fischer (C.Fischer@qub.ac.uk) and Fulden İbrahimhakkıoğlu (fulden@metu.edu.tr).