[spectre] (fwd) CFP: Postsocialist Affectivity and Intersectional Feminism

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Jana Kukaine
Date: Oct 31, 2021
Subject: CFP: Postsocialist Affectivity and Intersectional Feminism

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, No. 68 (1/2023)
Deadline: Sep 30, 2022

We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to special issue of The 
Polish Journal of Aesthetics - 'Postsocialist Affectivity and 
Intersectional Feminism', No. 68 (1/2023) edited by Jana Kukaine (Art 
Academy of Latvia), Natalia Anna Michna (Jagiellonian University in 
Kraków, Poland).

Submission deadline: September 30, 2022.

This special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics concentrates on 
affect theory, postsocialist studies, and intersectional feminism. By 
merging, subverting, and establishing affinities between these three 
fields of research, the special issue will fill a gap in ongoing 
theoretical debates and academic knowledge.
The first blind spot that the upcoming issue attempts to address is 
Central and Eastern Europe’s under-representation within affect theory, 
which primarily focuses on exploring Anglo-American contexts or their 
postcolonial Others. The second question worth considering is the 
problematic status of feminism itself in affect theory. The 
historiography of the affective turn (allegedly associated with the turn 
of the millennia) is often oblivious of the feminist work on emotions 
and feelings conducted in earlier decades. Thirdly, many researchers 
regarded postsocialism as a temporal condition of a culturally and 
geologically marginal region (Europe’s eastern border). However, there 
are many good reasons to assume that this condition has a global 
significance with much broader implications. In addition, postsocialist 
feminism is likewise a marginalized “little sister” of the transnational 
feminist community, oscillating between its socialist and neoliberal 
displays.
While suggesting these points of departure, the special issue of the 
journal invites contributions to illuminate the concept of postsocialist 
affectivity from the perspective of intersectional feminism.  We invite 
Authors from various research areas to submit articles that explore:
- the idiosyncratic character of affect in postsocialist contexts, its 
difference, peculiarity, and obscurity;
- sensual, carnal, and embodied experiences in Central and Eastern Europe;
- intersectional feminist perspectives on affectivity and the situation 
of a lived body (for example, poverty, sex work and trafficking, the 
rebirth of docile femininity, consumerism, etc.);
- the ambiguity of postsocialist affect and its rhizomatic roots, which 
pass through socialism, communism, neoliberalism, capitalism, 
nationalism, consumerism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, etc.
- postosicialst affectivity from gender, queer, environmenal, 
anti-capitalist, decolonial etc. perspectives;
- other perspectives and approaches that enhance the understanding of 
what postsocialism feels like and what affects it generates.

All Authors interested in contributing to this issue of The Polish 
Journal of Aesthetics, planned for publication in March 2023, are kindly 
requested to send full papers by submission page at journal's website by 
September 30, 2022.

We strongly urge all Authors to read the instructions (‘For Authors’) 
before the submission.

Welcome to visit our website at: http://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/

Please do not hesitate to contact us via email: 
pjaestheticsuj at gmail.com; pjaesthetics at uj.edu.pl

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Postsocialist Affectivity and Intersectional Feminism. In: 
ArtHist.net, Oct 31, 2021. <https://arthist.net/archive/35199>.

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