CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submission is August 15, 2016
Mobilizing the University: Curriculum, Access, and Solidarity
[working title]
Editor, Julie Shayne, PhD ~ jshayne@uw.edu
Assistant Editor, Namita Paul ~ pauln4@uw.edu
University of Washington Bothell
This interdisciplinary, edited collection focuses on the relationship between social justice activism and the university. Using an intersectional feminist framework we seek to explore three main themes. First, how has grassroots activism impacted what we teach and learn in the university? For example, what is the relationship between feminist movements and the birth of gender, women, and sexuality studies or racial justice movements and ethnic studies? Put another way, how do marginalized histories become part of the mainstream college curriculum? Next, how does social justice activism impact who has access to the university? For example, what sorts of movements exist that have pushed to create welcoming spaces for undocumented students, students with disabilities, or queer students? Finally, we seek to explore the role of campus solidarity activism in off campus movements. For example, historical cases might include student movements for divestment from Apartheid South Africa or campus sanctuary movements to denounce the US intervention in Central America.
While providing a theoretically and empirically original case study of an historical or contemporary social justice movement, contributors will be asked to address several topics in your essays: 1) Your own social location and why activism matters to you; 2) how does intersectional feminist analyses and methodology influence your research agenda? and 3) what do you see as the future for grassroots activism and university collaboration? Or, what lessons can be learned from the history you have shared?
We seek essays documenting historical and contemporary social justice activism, broadly construed, representing movements from around the world, particularly the global South. We envision activism conveyed through cultural productions, embodied protests, intellectual projects, among other forms of articulation. Additionally, we are particularly eager to receive essays by scholars/activists/artists of color in the humanities, social sciences, and arts.
One section of the book will be dedicated to student essays based on students’ own activism. This section will feature first-person narratives by undergraduate and recently graduated baccalaureate student activists. We are especially enthusiastic to include stories and experiences of students of color, queer students, particularly transgender and, students with disabilities. We are interested in essays that will give an overview of the movement that you, as a student activist are a part of, explaining how your participation in the movement informs your learning. In addition, we would like you to share your experiences as an activist within the academy, be it successes, failures or, merely tensions inherent in activist-academic equations.
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Currently we have student essays about Students Against Sweatshops, disability access, and undocumented student activism. We are looking to expand with topics such as students’ personal experiences with ethnic or gender, women, and sexuality studies programs, anti-racist activism, Black Lives Matter, transnational solidarity movements, prison reform activism, feminism, and gender justice, to name a few.
Directions and guidelines for case study chapters: Chapters must be double-spaced, between 9,000-10,000 words (not including notes or bibliography.) Please save your essay as a word document titled with the following naming convention: CaseStudyEssay_Title_Author last.first names_Date
Directions and guidelines for student essays: Interested authors are advised to consult a faculty mentor for feedback and guidance before submission. Please include name and contact information of the advising professor with your submission. Essays must be double-spaced, and between 1,300-1,800 words. Please save your essay as a word document titled with the following naming convention: Student essay_Title_Author last.first names_Date
All authors: Please do not submit previously published material. Please email essays, an abridged CV (no more than 2 pages), your cell phone number, and a short bio to Editor Julie Shayne at jshayne@uw.edu and Assistant Editor Namita Paul at pauln4@uw.edu.
Deadline for submission is August 15, 2016
QUESTIONS? No question is too small or too big. Please contact Julie Shayne (jshayne@uw.edu) and Namita Paul (pauln4@uw.edu) with any inquiry.
About Julie Shayne, Editor: Julie Shayne is a Senior Lecturer and Faculty Coordinator of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies in the School Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. She is author/editor of three books: Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas (editor) (SUNY, 2014 & 2015), They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism (Lexington, 2009), and The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba (Rutgers, 2004).
About Namita Paul, Assistant Editor: Namita Paul is a second year student in the Masters of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) program at University of Washington Bothell. She is an interdisciplinary visual artist and a budding scholar-artist with aspirations to continue researching her interests in feminist explorations of the progression of globalization and its impact on women’s lives, labor, and politics, well beyond MACS.