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- Délai: 15 septembre 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.
- Délai: 15 septembre 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.
- Délai: 15 septembre 2026 Ce numéro vise à réfléchir aux enjeux contemporains de l’anthropologie féministe, à l’intersection de tensions internes et externes à la discipline, traversée par des circulations conflictuelles des « catégories de l’émancipation ».ConsignesCe numéro privilégiera des contributions dans l’une des langues de la revue (français, anglais, espagnol, italien ou portugais) :fondées sur des terrains ethnographiques clairement identifiables ;articulant explicitement leur enquête aux recompositions entre féminisme, queer, postcolonial et décolonial ;attentives aux effets de traduction, de circulation, de conflit et de génération ;évitant les synthèses purement théoriques et/ou panoramiques.L’objectif est de penser empiriquement ce que devient aujourd’hui l’anthropologie féministe et queer face aux transformations contemporaines des régimes de pouvoir.Modalités de soumissionLes auteur·ices sont invité·es à envoyer :un résumé de 3 000 signes environ, précisant le terrain, la méthodologie et l’argument, sous forme de document Word ou LibreOffice, accompagné d’une courte bibliographie ;une biographie succincte de l’auteur·ice, de 150 mots maximum.Les propositions de contribution doivent comporter le nom de l’auteur·ice, son affiliation professionnelle et son adresse électronique. Elles doivent être adressées à redaction.ch-cp@ehess.fr et à anthropologiefeministequeer@proton.me, avec la mention « CH/CP – Anthropologie féministe et queer » en objet du message, avant le 15 septembre 2026. Elles recevront une réponse le 1er octobre 2026. Les articles complets, de 25 000 à 40 000 signes, notes et bibliographie comprises, devront être originaux et inédits, mis aux normes de la revue indiquées sur son site, et accompagnés d’un résumé de 3 000 signes en français et en anglais, en plus de la langue de l’article si celle- ci est différente. Ils devront être remis au plus tard le 22 janvier 2027.La procédure est donc organisée en deux temps. En lien avec le comité de rédaction, les coordinateur·ices effectueront une sélection des propositions de contribution sur la base des résumés reçus. Les contributions retenues seront ensuite évaluées selon une procédure en double aveugle.CalendrierRéception des résumés des contributions : 15 septembre 2026Réponse : 1er octobre 2026Remise des articles : 22 janvier 2027
- Délai: 15 septembre 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
- Délai: 28 septembre 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.
- Délai: 30 septembre 2026 À propos du colloque des études genre juridiquesTous les deux ans, l’institut suisse d’études juridiques féministes et gender law (FRI) rassemble des chercheur.ses, des praticien.nes, ainsi que des militant.es lors d’une conférence internationale afin de débattre de questions situées à l’intersection du féminisme et du droit.Notre prochain colloque est un espace interdisciplinaire destiné à celleux qui s’intéressent aux perspectives queer-féministes du droit et de la société. Pour cette prochaine édition, nous mettons l’art et le droit en dialogue, en posant la question suivante : qu’est-ce qui devient visible lorsque l’injustice est abordée non seulement à travers des paragraphes juridiques, mais aussi à travers des images, des performances ou des textes littéraires ? Comment les formes artistiques peuvent-elles contribuer à une critique queer-féministe du droit ?Juristes, artistes, acteur.trices culturel.les, théoricien.nes et militant.es réfléchiront ensemble à la manière dont le droit et l’art se remettent mutuellement en question et s’enrichissent l’un l’autre.La conférence est multilingue (DE / FR / EN) et se nourrit des échanges entre des personnes issues de milieux, de disciplines et de perspectives différents.Appel à contributionsNous invitons les auteur.trices à proposer des contributions pour des tables rondes et des interventions artistiques situées à l’intersection de l’art et du droit, dans une perspective queer-féministe. Nous sommes particulièrement intéressés par les contributions qui transcendent les frontières disciplinaires, géographiques et professionnelles.Les contributions sont les bienvenues en allemand, en français et en anglais. Nous invitons les contributions portant sur un ou plusieurs des quatre panels suivants :Table ronde 1 : L’art comme prolongement de la pensée et de la pratique juridiquesTable ronde 2 : Comment le droit façonne l’accès à l’artTable ronde 3 : L’art à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielleTable ronde 4 : Patrimoine culturel et guerre : perspectives juridiquesConsignes de soumissionNous vous demandons cette fois-ci de soumettre votre contribution via un court formulaire en ligne plutôt que par e-mail. Veuillez préparer une brève biographie (150 mots maximum), un résumé (500 mots maximum) et indiquer la table ronde à laquelle vous souhaitez participer. Si vous rencontrez des difficultés pour accéder a formulaire ou si vous préférez un autre mode de soumission, veuillez nous contacter directement.Contact pour des informations : conference@genderlaw.ch
- Délai: 15 octobre 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.
- Délai: 25 octobre 2026 Dans le cadre du projet swissuniversities « Missing Chapters – Comprendre les hautes écoles comme des espaces racialisés », la publication qui l'accompagne, Missing Chapters, paraîtra en mars 2027. Cet ouvrage réunit des perspectives diverses sur les hautes écoles en tant qu'espaces racialisés, dans le but de rendre visibles une pluralité de voix, de formes de savoir et de modes d'expression. Pour certains chapitres, nous lançons donc un appel public à contributions.À ce jour, la structure thématique suivante se dessine :Préface – Pourquoi ce livre ?Les éditeur·rice·s situent la publication dans son contexte d'émergence et ses objectifs.Se souvenir – Sur quelle base ce livre est-il construit ?Contextes historiques et sociétaux de la publication : postcolonialité suisse, politiques de mémoire et continuités des enchevêtrements coloniaux.Arriver – Qui (n')appartient (pas) ?Questions d'inclusion et d'exclusion : qui est (in)visible au sein des hautes écoles, et sous quelles conditions ?Apprendre – Qui produit le savoir ?Le racisme dans les hautes écoles dans ses dimensions institutionnelles, structurelles et violentes. L'accent est mis sur les questions de langage, de pouvoir, de responsabilité et de production solidaire du savoir.Endurer – Que portons-nous ?Charges émotionnelles, sociales et matérielles dans le contexte des hautes écoles, en particulier pour les personnes racisées : charge mentale, précarité, cumul de charges, classisme, ainsi que les ambivalences de la visibilité et de l'émotion.Habiliter – Où se situe le pouvoir d'agir ?Formes de résistance, de construction communautaire, de solidarité et d'allyship, ainsi que les pratiques d'agentivité des personnes concernées.Envisager – Qu'est-ce qui reste à écrire ?Perspectives futures : utopies, visions d'appartenance, transformations concrètes, ainsi que nouvelles formes de production (artificielle) de savoir.Conclusion – (Still) Missing ChaptersRéflexion de l'équipe du projet sur les perspectives, voix et lacunes qui manquent encore à la publication.Nous accueillons volontiers des contributions pour tous les chapitres thématiques (à l'exception de la préface et de la conclusion) — sous des formes poétiques, artistiques, littéraires et expérimentales. Les travaux visuels, documentaires et hybrides sont également les bienvenus, notamment la photographie, l'illustration, la bande dessinée, le collage, les essais visuels, les formats d'archives et d'entretiens, les cartographies et visualisations de données, ainsi que les contributions performatives ou audiovisuelles, pour autant qu'elles puissent être documentées ou préparées de manière adéquate en vue de la publication. L'objectif est de faire dialoguer différentes formes de savoir dans un cadre ouvert et transdisciplinaire. L'équipe éditoriale se réserve le droit de décider de la publication des contributions.Modalités de soumissionDélai de soumission : 25 octobre 2026, 23h59Soumissions à envoyer par email à : anina.mathivannan@unibe.chContributions textuelles : maximum 8 000 caractères (espaces compris)Contributions sous d'autres formats : maximum trois pages A4Formats de fichiers acceptés : .docx, .odt (.pdf, .jpg, .png pour les contributions non textuelles)Merci de joindre à votre contribution un fichier .pdf séparé contenant des informations sur l'auteur·e/le collectifEn soumettant leur contribution, les auteur·e·s acceptent sa publication éventuelle
- Délai: 01 novembre 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
- Délai: 09 avril 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).