Feminist Formations (Web)

Deadline: 01.08.2012

This special issue will take up the concept of “states of emergency” as an object of feminist analysis. We seek essays that will interrogate the ways in which a “state of emergency,” whether it be about economic scarcity, morality under siege, sexual violence or national security, is politically constructed and (re)produced through myriad technologies of power. How do political actors define a moment as a state of emergency in order to mobilize publics, re-define citizenship, or deploy political machinery? At the same time, we invite scholarship that names states of emergency made invisible by existing public discourse. In addition to essays that analyze the role and power of difference in framing narratives of emergency, we invite papers that question what can “count” as a state of emergency. For example, how can the racialized, sexualized and gendered exigencies  … read more (Web)