Calls for Submission

CFP: Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership

In higher education leadership, women are making substantial inroads, with women occupying about a quarter of university presidencies (Moltz) though remaining underrepresented in critical leadership roles (Dominici, Fried, and Zeger, 2009). Simultaneously, however, the mere presence of recognizable “female” bodies can result in a dismissal of the need to attend to or even acknowledge sexism […]

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Call for Proposals: Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in a Post-Colonial World?

Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in a Post-Colonial World? Issue number 128 (June 2017) Abstract Deadline: September 1, 2015 Issue editors: Margaret Power and Andor Skotnes It is time to revisit the nature, meanings, and understandings of Puerto Rico’s and Puerto Ricans’ political, economic, social, cultural, and demographic relationship to the United States and Latin America.

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CFP: Capitalist Realism: Transformations of Eastern European Visual Culture in the 1980’s and 1990’s

In May 1989, Polish poet and writer Agnieszka Osiecka wrote a scathing satirical article about the new social class that had emerged as a result of the introduction of the free market in Poland. In her piece, Osiecka derisively dubbed this developing class “wydeo,” a play on “wideo,”—the polonized version of the English word “video”—where

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SSRC Pre-dissertation Fellowship Opportunities

The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program is an interdisciplinary training program that helps early-stage doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral research proposals. The program seeks students with an interest in learning how their proposals can be strengthened through exposure to the theories, literatures, methods, and intellectual traditions of disciplines outside their own. To

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Call for Chapters – Democracy in the Global South

Working title: Democracy Identity and Citizenship in the Global South This edited volume seeks to examine the ways in which democracies in the Global South contend with political identities, substantive citizenship (citizen as capacity), the fight for social justice and radical or critical political participation and democratic interventions in the twenty-first century. Critical theoretical perspectives

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