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Wagadu - Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies
Wagadu - Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies investigates issues of gender in a globalizing world. Gender overlaps with other factors of power, mostly race and class. The Journal’s texts and material address the fact that racism and oppression on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, nationality, class etc. are interrelated.Interdisciplinary forum
Wagadu is a feminist, interdisciplinary, progressive forum situated on the interstices of Critical Race Studies and Gender Studies. The Journal will publish material in English and other world languages, including African and Asian languages. The Journal will serve as a medium of exchange and information and will be a net-work for scholars and activists.
Objectives
1. To foster transnational exchange about race and ethnicity in Gender Studies. Many people can be reached via the net who otherwise have no access to scholarly resources.
2. Wagadu supports progressive discourses. Both through its medium as well as through its contents, it supports anti-eurocentric, intercultural impulses in order to further Gender Studies and Critical Race Studies.
Description of Set-up and Content
Wagadu will publish material on postcolonial resistance in theory and practice that includes race, gender and economic perspectives.
Topics
Identity politics and its connection with contemporary politics; of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality; exclusionary societal pratices; migration, immigration, diaspora ; emancipatory struggles; economic critique of neo-colonialism; role of culture and religion in new nationalisms; media representations of the above subjects in literature, film and the fine arts;
Areas to be addressed
Gender Studies; Critical Race Studies; Politics and Political Philoso-phy; Art; Geography; Economics; Film and Media Studies; Area Studies
Text- Material
Articles; review essays and book reviews; interviews; creative work; “Focus“: every issue will have a focus in addition to the articles, i.e. Wagadu will ask scholars to respond to current phenomena in politics, new publications etc.
Info-Material
Links to sites of interests; conference announcements; re-publication of impor-tant articles
Target Group
Scholars in the humanities, Social Sciences, Media Studies, also in the Natural Sciences and ac-tivists who work with gender and race issues. Since questions of race and gender are multidi-mensional, both Gender Studies and Critical Race Studies have benefited from a synergy of ap-proaches and methods and are truly interdisciplinary. Wagadu’s diverse readership is united by its interest in postcolonial issues.
For further info, please contact
Mechthild Nagel, editor in chief
Cortland, NY 13045
e-mail: nagelm@cortland.edu
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