hypatia

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Calls for Papers

The following special issues are currently open for submissions.


Special Issue on Climate Change

March 15, 2012 submission deadline

Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2013
Guest Editors: Nancy Tuana and Chris Cuomo

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks papers for a special issue on Climate Change. We welcome new feminist scholarship on the scientific, ethical, epistemological, economic, and cultural dimensions of current global climate change, as well as case studies that critically engage specific questions in local, regional, national, and/or global contexts. In addition to essays developing feminist analyses of the science, ethics, and politics of climate change, we encourage investigations of the gendered, neo-colonial, and other power-laden frameworks which shape the discourses and power flows that influence various parties’ understandings of and responses to climate change.

There has been a great deal of work in the natural and social sciences on various aspects of climate change, and there is increasing acknowledgement in the literature that extreme weather events and ecological disasters tend to have greater negative impacts on women, girls, and those who lack economic and social power. Nonetheless, little attention has been given to the complex ways in which hegemonic conceptions of gender, race, nation, and knowledge are implicated within institutional frameworks of climate policy, media representations of scientific knowledge, and suggestions of planetary redemption through "eco-engineering," carbon markets, or profit-generating green technologies.

In addition to critical case studies focused on specific regions or trends, some questions and issues that might be considered in this special issue include (but are not limited to) feminist analyses of the following topics:

  • Geopolitics of climate change treaties and political processes

  • Ethics and politics of approaches to climate justice, including cosmopolitanism, human
    rights, human security, indigenous rights, and eco-centric perspectives

  • Critical analyses of industrial, scientific, policy and activist discourses

  • Climate change denial and epistemologies of ignorance

  • Intersections and tensions of development ethics and climate ethics

  • Epistemologies and ethics of climate modeling, including economic models

  • Naturalization of fossil fuel dependence and consumerism

  • Climate change and the resurgence of reactionary notions of population control

  • Critical analyses of the influence of popular media, from misinformation to education

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2012

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared
for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For
details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines

Please submit your paper to manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Climate Change” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editors indicating the title of the paper you have submitted: Chris Cuomo: cuomo@uga.edu, Nancy Tuana: ntuana@la.psu.edu

Special Issue on Interstices: Women of Color Feminist Philosophy

August 15, 2012 submission deadline

Volume 29, Number 1, Winter 2014
Guest Editors: Kristie Dotson and Donna-Dale Marcano

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy seeks papers for a special issue on women of color feminist philosophy.  We welcome feminist philosophical scholarship with the aim of interrogating and/or demonstrating work created within the terrain of these three terms- women of color, feminist, philosophy.  As the profession of philosophy has witnessed a small emergence of women of color who are pursuing academic degrees in philosophy as well as those who find philosophy useful in the service of other types of research and activism, women of color feminist philosophers still struggle to negotiate political and/or academic spaces often acknowledged as “interstitial” or “liminal.”  And, yet, when one considers that within the past decade that younger (i.e. newer) feminist scholars now have access to successful and now classic works of a handful of senior feminist philosophers of color, one can instantly recognize that we are at a threshold of expanding the purview of what it means to philosophize as a woman of color feminist philosopher.   This latter circumstance points to a significant transformation.  We are at a juncture that deserves celebration as well as serious contemplation on the presence or lack thereof of women of color feminist philosophical work.   To this end, we encourage new essays that explore the promises of scholarship as well as problems or objectives and/or methodologies pertaining to women of color feminist philosophy. 

By women of color feminist philosophy, we mean intellectual work done by feminists who take women of color as their primary philosophical touchstones and/or scholarly focus.  As such, we invite papers on a wide range of topics.  We look forward to new insights concerning the identity and/or existence of “women of color” feminist philosophical scholarship as well as whether and what philosophy and philosophical tools aid or prohibit pursuing and addressing women of color feminist work.  We also encourage essays on the process of including women of color’s voices into one’s own academic work.   In particular, we hope that this issue will stimulate articulation of the diverse truths inherent to the diversity of women included in the moniker women of color, as it is understood within and against the American context or post-racial, post-feminist sensibilities.  To this end, we encourage contributors to explore integrating resources from their particular racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background with an attention to the hazards or victories of such an exploration.   We welcome essays ranging from ethical and social political explorations to metaphysical and epistemological concerns.  We invite discussion of ways in which the label “women of color” translates and/or does not translate in contexts outside the US as well as whether and how it can be re-appropriated and transformed within international arenas.  We also encourage explorations of the relationship and distinctions between women of color feminist philosophy and critical race feminism or transnational feminism including articulations of what makes a work philosophical and how it becomes so.  

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2012

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. In addition to articles, we invite submissions for our Musings section. These should not exceed 3,000 words, including footnotes and references, and unless they are invited contributions, they will be subject to external review.  For details please see Hypatia's submission guidelines

Please submit your paper to manuscript central. When you submit, make sure to select “Interstices” as your manuscript type, and also send an email to the guest editors indicating the title of the paper you have submitted: Kristie Dotson: dotsonk@msu.edu, Donna-Dale Marcano: Donna.Marcano@trincoll.edu