The journal *Studies in Social Justice* (SSJ) publishes articles on social,
cultural, economic, political, and philosophical problems associated with
struggles for social justice. This interdisciplinary journal aims to
publish work that links theory to social change and the analysis of
substantive issues. The journal welcomes heterodox contributions that are
critical of established paradigms of inquiry. *Studies in Social Justice*
is an Open Access journal; it has recently moved to Brock University’s
Social Justice Research Institute with a new editorial team. More
information about the journal can be found at:
http://brock.scholarsportal.
This special issue of SSJ aims to re-think concepts and practices of
intimacy and embodied care through a wide spectrum of twenty-first-century
intimate labours and their associated economies. It will focus on
intimacies and embodiment, including exchanges involving organs, body
tissues, and body fluids (e.g., milk, sperm, and blood); entanglements of
care, work, consumption, and commodification; varied forms of
“global-intimate pairings” (Wilson, 2012, p. 31); and gender, class, and
racial inequalities. It also explores intimate labours as forms of care
work that fuse production, social reproduction, consumption,
commodification, and social justice issues.
Papers are invited on (but not limited to) the following themes:
- Care, work, and consumption
- Transnational care giving and care work
- New forms of intimate labours
- Queer intimacies and the queering of practices of care
- Social reproduction and intimate labours
- Commodification of intimate life
- Commercialization and commodification of bodily exchanges
- Assisted human reproduction
- Organ donation and sale
- Human tissue and fluids donation, sale, and banking
- Methodological and epistemological issues in researching intimacie
This special issue of *SSJ *emerges from an international symposium that
was held at Brock University in October 2015. We plan to publish a small
selection of papers that were presented at the conference as well as new
papers that address the themes listed above.
We encourage contributions from across the humanities and social sciences,
as well as interventions from artists and activists.
*Submissions are welcomed in the following categories:*
*Articles* (6 – 8,000 words): original, previously-unpublished, and
fully-referenced research contributions that significantly extend knowledge
in the broad field of social justice along substantive, theoretical or
methodological lines, and which are likely to be of interest to researchers
and practitioners. Articles will be blind peer-reviewed.
*Review Essays* (< 6,000 words): critical and evaluative overviews of
particular literatures, theoretical traditions, debates, activist
experiences, etc., relating to social justice. Review essays are intended
as expert overviews for the benefit of activists and researchers who are
unfamiliar with the area. Review essays will be blind peer-reviewed.
*Book reviews* (1 – 2,000 words): reviews of important theoretical,
political and research works relating to social justice issues. Book
reviews are vetted by the editors, but are not subject to peer review.
*Dispatches* (< 4,000 words): reports or commentaries from the non-academic
and academic spaces of social justice practice, discourse and contestation.
Dispatches may report on research activities, methodological innovations,
movement experiences, mobilization efforts, educational practices, social
justice events and actions, etc. They need not employ an academic writing
style or speaking position. Dispatches are reviewed and vetted by the
editorial team, which will work with authors as necessary to help shape
submissions for publication. They are not exposed to a blind review process.
*Creative Interventions*: visual, aural or textual products that reflect on
social justice issues using an aesthetic or evocative mode of address.
Creative interventions are reviewed and vetted by members of the editorial
team or others with competence in the relevant areas of creative practice.
They are not exposed to a blind review process.
Please send submissions via email to consumingintimacies@gmail.com by *February
15, 2016*.
Please feel free to consult the editors on possible submissions: Dr. Robyn
Lee at rlee2@brocku.ca or Professor Andrea Doucet at adoucet@brocku.ca.
