{"id":193,"date":"2017-10-31T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=193"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:24:09","slug":"call-for-papers-gender-in-the-global-south-disturbing-international-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/2017\/10\/31\/call-for-papers-gender-in-the-global-south-disturbing-international-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers \u2014 Gender in the global south: disturbing international boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolina Moulin, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Contexto Internacional\/IRI PUC Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Recent waves of theorization on gender have become more cognizant of the differences and intersectionalities that affect sexed bodies in multiple ways so as to produce alternative possibilities for thinking and acting politically. This transformation has been deeply tied to a more general problematization of the Eurocentric basis through which knowledge production has been pursued, in a movement that led to the growing appreciation of the \u201cGlobal South\u201d as a legitimate locus of enunciation. The impact of such a transformation of the usual loci of enunciation and knowledge production has been central for feminist, gender and queer studies, which have been trying to account for the ineradicable multiplicity of places, histories, bodies, and subjectivities.<\/p>\n

In international relations, Cynthia Enloe\u2019s popularization of the idea that the personal is in<\/p>\n

ternational and that the international is personal has contributed to the appreciation of the intertwining among categories of gender, class, ethnicity, and allowed for questioning the universalizing categories that risk homogenizing people\u2019s experiences and trajectories. By doing so, Enloe has allowed an interrogation into the ways through which personal lives are infused with power as well as into how the politicization of people\u2019s private lives offers the pillars that sustain international politics.<\/p>\n

Appreciating the dislocation of universalist narratives, this Special Issue invites reflection on the state of gender studies \u2013 conceptually, politically, epistemologically \u2013 from a Global South perspective. Particularly, it encourages submissions that account for the ways categories of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class among others are particularly intertwined in the lived experiences of people who inhabit the actual and symbolic Global South, so as to generate approaches to how power and resistance operate and are negotiated in different ways by people inhabiting multiple geographical, political and normative spaces. The Editorial Team of the Special Issue of Contexto Internacional, \u201cGender in the Global South: disturbing international boundaries\u201d invites contributions that reflect upon:<\/p>\n