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Call for Papers "Citizenship" Women's Studies Quarterly Special Issue __________________________________________________ Guest Editors: Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon Citizenship is a category of inclusion, belonging, protection and allegiance, as well as a boundary, an instantiation of exclusion, and an occasion for social and political conflict. In our historical moment, the meanings of citizenship in relation to feminist thinking about gender, sexuality, race and nation are far from straightforward. This is a moment for reimagining a wide range of issues related to citizenship, such as national and transnational allegiances and identities in a globalized world, statelessness and asylum, claims to the rights and protections of citizenship, attempts to delimit citizenship based on religion, ethnicity and race, articulations of belonging, and those of exile, alienation or treason. This special issue of WSQ invites work that will contribute to an exploration of citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome academic papers from a variety of perspectives in all disciplines, from theory, qualitative research, and empirical studies to literary and cultural studies. We will also consider creative prose, poetry, visual artwork and memoir that explore the theme of citizenship. Topics might include, but are not limited to: - borders: spaces and practices of inclusion and exclusion - liminal citizenship: exile, detention and asylum - citizenship and terrorism - migration, immigration and diaspora - women, politics and power in governance - suffrage, civil rights, and feminism - governmentality and neoliberalism - sexual citizenship and gay marriage - biosociality, health and citizenship - originary myths and founding documents of the state - affiliations, alienation and allegiance - treasons - contested nationalities, dual loyalties, transnational identities - literacy, language, and citizenship - cultural integration, cultural differentiation - postcolonial independence - premodern statehood, tribal and monarchical organization - 'naturalization' - claiming place: urban cultural appropriation - political satire - discourses of patriotism - citizens as stockholders - national service and social citizenship - organizations without borders - religious identity and social citizenship - on-line activism, social networking and political participation - race, passing, and the transnational body - cosmopolitanism, regionalism, globalism If submitting academic work, please send articles by May 15 to the guest editors Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon at <[email protected]>. They should be no longer than 22 pages. For submission guidelines see: http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/#submissionguidelines Contact: Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.feministpress.org/wsq/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
