CALL OF PAPERS

  1)  Presentation

InSURgência: journal of rights and social movements (ISSN: 2447-6684), linked to the Institute for Research, Rights and Social Movements - IPDMS, aims to disseminate unprecedented theoretical production on "social rights and movements".

With the aim of promoting research developed with, by and for social movements and mobilizing researchers from Brazil and other countries in several areas of knowledge, the Institute for Research, Rights and Social Movements - IPDMS founded InSURgência: Revista de Direitos e Movimentos Sociais (ISSN: 2447-6684), an international journal that promotes unpublished theoretical and empirical productions committed to critical and liberating knowledge on the theme of rights and social movements in the Brazilian, Latin American and transnational contexts.

For the next issue of InSURgência (v. 8, n. 2, jul/dec. 2021), the Renap's “Gender, Race and Sexuality” group in partnership with IPDMS invites the academic community, researchers, and social movement activists to send their contributions in the format of scientific articles for the dossier "Race, Gender and Sexuality: Rights & Social Struggles", according to the guidelines below.

 

2)  Dossier “Pandemic, rights and social movements”

Brazil has in its history profound marks of oppression, depersonalization and dehumanization, since its colonization, with the extraction of its natural wealth and the subjugation of its original peoples. After more than three centuries of a slavery logic, we entered the second decade of the 21st century with the country in the ninth position in the world ranking of inequality and leading a genocide of the black and indigenous population, intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic. Even recognizing the social advances of this century, we still live under systems of domination - racism, heterosexism, capitalism, capacitism - that produce certain subjects and privileged identities to the detriment of others, relegated to invisibility and deprivation of political, economic and social capacity. These forms of domination are often reflected and reinforced by law, which contributes to the perpetuation of cultural, social and political exclusion and injustice. This year (2021), in the midst of the greatest health crisis of the century, the asymmetry of social relations is intertwined with the deepening of the financial crisis and inequalities that produce greater impoverishment of the population and progressive increase of the number of people living in extreme poverty. However, the crisis has a greater scope, as it has a ripple effect with regard to violations of fundamental rights and, thus, reveals the lie behind the universal ideal of equality. Faced with this scenario of a society that produces and reproduces inequalities, different groups struggle, organized in social movements. Be they feminist, black, indigenous, LGBTQIA+ movements, among others, their demands for human rights have reverberated and made possible social transformation. Thus, understanding that law can also be a field of resistance, in which legal creation and interpretation has always been a political activity linked to the convictions of various collective social actors, we seek to bring together scientific production involved in the struggles of social movements for the affirmation/transformation of rights. Aware of the role of knowledge in social transformation, the editorial board of Insurgência invites participants to explore the social and theoretical complexity of the theme “Race, Gender and Sexuality: rights & social struggles”. We aim to publish descriptive and/or analytical, theoretical and/or empirical articles, reports of personal experiences or experiences of collective struggles for rights that reflect on issues related to the following axes, which should be seen not as limiting, but as ways to better frame the work through the perspective of the author and her creative freedom: 

1. a) Race, gender and sexuality: Violence and social struggles 

The exploitation and domination of bodies and territories in the processes of racist and cis-heteronormative colonization are structural of the political and economic models existing in Latin America and Brazil. The social effects resulting from these processes remain present today and is constant reconfiguration. In addition to a neoliberal agenda and the intensification of hate speech (racist, homophobic, etc.), the current situation shows an increase in violence and, therefore, in its lethal expression, through gender-based and/or sexual orientation-based killings, the genocide of indigenous and black populations, and the incarceration of Brazilian youth. Violence and discrimination based on class, race, gender and sexuality are a global standard for the elimination of bodies considered inferior, abnormal and killable, deepened in the face of the current health and humanitarian crisis resulting from the pandemic. In this sense, to expand and deepen the reflections and analysis of the diverse and complex contexts of violence in its intersectionalities, we invite articles that address the problems of feminicides, lesbocides and transfeminicides; domestic violence, LGBTQIA+phobic violence, sexual violence, violence against indigenous peoples, quilombolas and other traditional peoples and communities, institutional violence (such as police violence, in the prison system, in the socio-educational system, in health, etc.), reproductive rights and (in)justice, and the exploitation of women in domestic and care work. In addition, we also invite articles that examine actions and responses to these problems, whether from the justice systems, the legislature and public policies, as well as social struggles, whether by social movements, collectives, public institucions, academia, and other social sectors. 

1. b) Anti-gender offensive and strategies of resistance

In recent years, the false issue of “gender ideology” has gained public attention, constituting itself as an umbrella from which a vast repertoire of actions to combat and silence the political, social and subjective production of women has been legitimized. Marches against egalitarian marriage in Mexico, Colombia and Cuba, the creation of the Latin American Front for the Right to Life and the Family, the opposition of the churches against the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC, the removal of the expression “gender” from municipal education plans and the creation of the School without Party movement in Brazil, are some examples of reactions to attempts to advance the agendas of gender and sexual equality. This set of discursive practices has been called anti-gender offensive and to its discussion we dedicate this section of the dossier. We invite articles that analyze anti-gender transnational mobilizations and alliances, discuss their local manifestations, problematize legislative productions and other anti-gender institutional manifestations, and discuss strategies of resistance and confrontations against anti-gender offensives, whether by social movements, collectives, academia, public institutions, and other social sectors. 

3)  Conditions for submission

To send your contribution, you need to register on the InSURgencia website (https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/insurgencia/). The contribution must be original and unpublished, and must not be under evaluation for publication by another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in "Comments to the editor".

The submission file must be in editable format (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF), without authorship identification. It must contain, in 2 languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French or English): title, abstract and keywords. In addition, it must contain introduction, development, conclusion and references written in a single language of the author’s preference, between Portuguese, Spanish, French or English.

The text must be 1.5 spacing; Times New Roman font, size 14 in the title, 12 in the abstract and main text and 10 in the highlighted citations and footnotes; use underlining instead of italics (except URL addresses); figures and tables must be inserted in the text, not at the end of the document or in the form of attachments. The text must follow the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in “Guidelines for Authors”, under the link “About the Journal” that appears on the journal's website.

Deadline for submission to dossier: 11/06/2021.