philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism
Special Issue – Mapping the Margins of Europe: Race, Migration and Belonging
Editors, Agnes Czajka and Jennifer Suchland
What and where are the margins of Europe? How can feminists theorize and interrogate those margins?
Histories of colonialism, war, and migration have made Europe a contested space of identification and belonging. The margins and borders of Europe have likewise been drawn by ongoing, if shifting and contested, internal processes of othering and complex national discourses and policies of citizenship, asylum and migration. We can also think of the margins of Europe as a contested geopolitical and economic perimeter, with the borders and margins of geopolitical and economic Europe remade through processes of accession and the opening of new migratory routes. Old hierarchies were overlaid on new hierarchies, leading to the emergence of a complex bricolage of affluence, renewal, erosion, and dispossession.
This special issue asks how feminist, anti-racist, queer, postcolonial, and/or decolonial approaches can render or reframe the margins of Europe. Can critical cartographies of Europe’s historical and contemporary margins be used to navigate and/or counter racism, exclusion and economic dispossession? Can we think across margins, looking simultaneously at processes of marginalization and peripheralization in new and old Europe as well as colonial arrangements past and present? Can critical, feminist interpretations of European pasts and presents enable us to envision a more hospitable future (for) Europe?
Send a 500-word abstract and direct all questions to philosophiajcf@gmail.com by February 15, 2016.
philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism is an international, peer-reviewed journal for scholarship that engages the rich traditions of feminist theory and continental philosophy, both broadly construed. The journal aims to broaden the discipline of philosophy and enrich the practices of feminist theory, bringing the conceptual resources of these fields together to address pressing socio-political issues. We encourage a wide range of theoretical approaches, particularly those exploring feminist philosophical questions through the lenses of queer, critical race, disability, and transnational perspectives.
Editors, Lynne Huffer and Shannon Winnubst
Book Review Editor, Emanuela Bianchi
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