Announcing a new eJournal:
Wagadu.
Journal of Transnational
Women’s and Gender Studies
Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland, Editor in Chief
Kassim Kone, SUNY Cortland, Managing Editor
Nina Zimnik, Ph.D., Universität Lüneburg, Germany, Founding Editor
This is a short exposé of a new internet journal (first issue fall 2003). The
Journal invites your contribution. We are looking for scholars/activists
who are interested in contributing texts or serve the Journal.
I. Profile of the Journal
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. 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 network for scholars and activists. For
several reasons, the internet is best suited (as opposed to a print-
medium) 1. the target audience needs affordable easy access to research
on race/class/gender, 2. these topics must be reflected transnationally
and transculturally, 3. the internet is the medium of international
networking, 4. the internet provides the possibility of fast reaction to
current issues.
II. Goals
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.
III. Description of Set-up and Content
Wagadu will publish material on postcolonial resistance in theory and
practice that includes race, gender and economic perspectives.
1. 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
2. Areas to be addressed:
- Gender Studies
- Critical Race Studies
- Politics and Political Philosophy
- Art
- Geography
- Economics
- Film and Media Studies
- Area Studies
3. 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.
4. Info-Material:
- links to sites of interests
- conference announcements
- re-publication of important articles
IV. Target Group
Scholars in the humanities, Social Sciences, Media Studies, also in the
Natural Sciences and activists who work with gender and race issues.
Since questions of race and gender are multidimensional, both Gender
Studies and Critical Race Studies have benefited from a synergy of
approaches and methods and are truly interdisciplinary. Wagadu’s
diverse readership is united by its interest in postcolonial issues.
Wagadu addresses
- scholars
- intellectuals outside of the academy
- activists inside and outside of the university system
For further info, please contact:
Mechthild Nagel, editor in chief
Philosophy
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045
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