Call for Papers: Engaged Scholar Journal Spring 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE (Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2022)

ENGAGING FEMINISMS: CHALLENGING EXCEPTIONALIST IMAGINARIES

Guest Editors:

Marie Lovrod and Corinne Mason

As Dean, Johnson and Luhmann (2018) argue, although feminist social justice activists and scholars from many communities and social locations have long navigated the productive tensions that characterize academic-activist-community engagements, with universities facing increasing pressures to raise the profile of community-based research and teaching, gender justice organizers and scholars are rarely sought out to evaluate the renewed emphasis on market-oriented industry partnerships, community service, civic engagements, volunteering, philanthropy and charity models that may inform institutional initiatives. Challenging the inequities that characterize power, privilege and status-quo imperialist logics exposes complicities with increasingly aggressive exceptionalisms framed through racist, hetero and cisnormative, ablest, sexist and ageist socio-economic mainstreaming that may mobilize community engagement to mask implicit and explicit abandonment of more meaningful solidarities within and across classrooms, communities, environments and…