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Call for Publications Theme: Revaluing the Human Subtitle: The Moral Economy of Human Rights Publication: Prose Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Date: Special Issue Deadline: 1.6.2015 __________________________________________________ Recent work in the history of human rights argues internationalization of rights has converged with the rationalization of neoliberal economic policies, such as the dismantling of the welfare state. If human rights and market fundamentalisms do share a similar trajectory, what definitions or characteristics of the human emerge from the common ground of this shared trajectory? How do alternative bodies of critical work in law, rights, race and corporality share in this alignment or depart from it – (e.g. critical race theory, transgender studies and queer theories, Black and Chicana feminisms, theoretical work on reproductive technology)? To what extent and in what contexts are human rights networks functioning as technologies of neoliberalism? If the human of human rights is increasingly tethered to neoliberal rationalities, can human rights thrive as a counter-hegemonic movement? How are human rights activists, critical race and critical legal theorists, writers, and scholars – or others – newly imagining or productively challenging the relationship between the juridical human (legal personhood) and human capital (entrepreneurial self)? We welcome analyses of non-fiction texts (ethnography, medical and scientific reports, human rights reports, public policy, political, social and philosophical treatises, the forms that elicit demographic or other data, essays, diaries, letters, autobiography, biography, news media, and social media activism) that focus on the link between juridical humanity and economic models of human value. We are particularly interested in essays that explore the impact on human rights and/or texts that may invite, enable, or problematize acts of human recognition and resistance. How can the work of engaging with or excavating texts help us to revalue the ways that humans matter? Direct questions on format and review to Special Issue co-editor Wendy Hesford ([email protected]) or Prose Studies editor Clare A. Simmons ([email protected]). Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015. Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Kristin Ferebee, and Stephanie Athey More information can be found at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=FPRS20&page=instructions#.VJYQ7oAAB __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
