CALL FOR PAPERS
Summer Issue 2025
Special Issue:
Thinking the Global with Feminist
Pragmatism
In her path-breaking work, Pragmatism
and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric (1996), Charlene Haddock Seigfried
provides concrete directions for articulating a distinctively feminist
pragmatism. Generations of scholars have now been engaged in reviving the work
of women philosophers to reimagine the pragmatist canon, expanding the
imagination of pragmatism through a feminist lens, bringing the perspective of
pragmatism to bear on feminist issues, and developing feminist pragmatism in
dialogue with other critical traditions.
This issue focuses on exploring both the
possibilities and challenges of thinking the global with feminist pragmatism.
The project would entail imagining the feminist pragmatist canon beyond the
narrow boundaries of American philosophy and with a more global orientation. We
also wish to explore ways in which feminist pragmatist commitments to pluralism,
fallibilism, ideals of community and social transformation, among others, can
contribute to issues of global significance. In fact, conceptual resources
within feminist pragmatism might provide concrete directions for evolving an
anti-imperialist and pluralist understanding of the global itself. We are also
interested in questions such as: What do feminist pragmatists think about the
global? What sort of lineages and points of connection can be established with
philosophical traditions from diverse locations that can contribute to a more
global vision for feminist pragmatism? What are the possibilities and challenges
of cross-cultural philosophical exchanges for the feminist pragmatist canon?
These questions are not exhaustive, but hope to provide a vision for this issue.
Potential themes to be explored include,
but are not limited to:
- Feminist pragmatism as global
philosophy
- Feminist pragmatism on global issues
- Feminist pragmatism as
anti-imperialism
- Feminist pragmatism and
cross-cultural philosophy
- Expanding the feminist pragmatist
canon from a global perspective
- Alternative genealogies into feminist
pragmatism
- Feminist pragmatism in dialogue with
other critical traditions
We invite papers that are between 15-20
pages (6000-9000 words).
The deadline for paper submission is
February 15, 2025. The guidelines for authors can be found on the journal
webpage.
Papers for this issue should be sent to
Amrita Banerjee and Kristina Bosáková at
abanerjee.phi@iitb.ac.in
and
kristina.bosakova@upjs.sk
