Call of Papers for the Next Dossier

Call for papers for the Dossier of Pescadora de perlas. Revista de estudios arendtianos

ISSN: 2953-4410

Dossier: Arendt and feminisms

Coordination: Natalia Martínez Prado, María José Merino and Eduardo Mattio.

Although there are no references in Arendt's work to the political or theoretical praxis of feminisms, her thought clearly contains multiple ways of approaching it and understanding its unexpected implications for our present. Not only from the approaches that commonly tend to dichotomize and decontextualize some of her most lucid reflections on central categories of political theory, such as public and private, labor and work, necessity and freedom, equality and difference, or action, cohabitation and judgment; but also from her understanding of power as a power between equals that only remains in its own reality, but that despite its fragility, opens the possibility of new realities, new actors and new political imaginations.

Moving away from those perspectives that sought to identify Arendt herself as a feminist (or anti-feminist) -nothing further to understand who Arendt was -, this dossier receives contributions that inscribe or discuss Arendt's work to understand the challenges of our present, crossed by an unusual feminist protagonism. How does the birth of this new generation of feminisms affect the emancipatory political projects of our region? How is their centrality linked to the rise of radicalized right-wing political movements? What are the implications for political action -and its distinction from the private sphere- when women recognize themselves as territorial bodies? What are the political effects of their public demand for the recognition of their care work as unpaid labor? How does Arendt's legacy disturb our political understanding of sexuality, struggles and sex-disident drifts?

In this dossier we invite contributions that reflect on Arendt's categories -rescuing and reinterpreting them- in order to address the problems that challenge feminisms today. Or, that from feminist positions critically review Arendt's ideas in order to channel their critical potential to feminist and sex-dissident struggles that remain to be faced.

Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2023.

We remind you that the reception of free contributions is permanently open, for the sections Estudios y Notas, Reseñas y Perlas. 

Please read the Submissions section carefully.