Call for Papers and Submissions

The Agency of the Artist-scholar [Critical Legal Conference Stream CFP]

Critical Legal Conference 2021 – University of Dundee – 2-4 September 2021 The Agency of the Artist-scholar We invite presentations that explore the figure of the artist-scholar. The agency of the artist-scholar is almost always post-contemporary. It engages with arts and literature (sensorial and textual knowledge) across time-senses. When it does break through the norms…

EOI: New Editorial Team for the Australian Feminist Law Journal

The Australian Feminist Law Journal wishes to appoint a new editorial team to take over the leadership of the journal from the current board. Launched over 25 years ago, the Australian Feminist Law Journal was created to focus on research that uses critical feminist approaches to law and justice. We publish research informed by critical…

The Bubble: Metaphors we survive by (with apologies to Lakoff & Johnson)

We get the metaphors we deserve. Metaphors are indispensable tools for making sense of reality, including the ongoing reality of systemic colonial relations—or to obfuscate it (to deflect the need to enact substantive decolonisation agendas, for example). In times of crisis they perform a crucial role in translating and interpreting a rapidly changing world. Viral…

Hygiene, Coloniality, Law

Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47.1, June 2021 Special Issue Editors: Dr Gina Heathcote, Dr Paola Zichi, Alice Finden This special issue will bring together research addressing hygiene, coloniality and law, and their instrumentalisation as regulatory tools of governance. Discursive understandings of morality and sexual mores were central…