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Dear all, Your attention for this call for chapters. Thank you.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 500;">Call for Chapters: “</span><b>Feminist Discursive Ecologies: Care, Media, and Slow Resistance</b><span style="font-weight: 500;">”</span></div>
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Over the past decades, feminist media and cultural practices have shaped discursive ecologies in which symbolic production, care and collective organisation intersect. Zines, independent presses, film and video collectives, podcasts, community archives, feminist
urban networks and digital platforms constitute spaces for the production of meaning, memory and solidarity. This edited collection proposes to examine these practices as feminist discursive ecologies that articulate cultural production and community sustenance.
By shifting attention to the material, temporal and organisational conditions of media production, the book interrogates how these ecologies enable the continuity of feminist action in contexts marked by precarisation, digital acceleration and the intensification
of anti-gender mobilisations.</div>
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Particular attention will be given to the ways in which care, maintenance and the creation of cultural refuges intersect with contemporary debates on slow resistance (Tan, 2025; Nixon, 2011). Without reducing the volume to a single theoretical lens, slow resistance
is approached as an interpretative key for understanding practices of duration, strategic opacity and collective sustenance.</div>
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Drawing on feminist critiques of neoliberal temporalities (Fraser & Bhattacharya, 2019; Ahmed, 2014) and scholarship on memory and DIY cultures (Chidgey, 2014; Piepmeier, 2009), the collection brings together discursive and multimodal analysis with attention
to the infrastructures that sustain production, circulation and community. Grounded in Lusophone contexts, the book welcomes studies focused on Portugal, Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as comparative contributions, fostering transnational
dialogue on alternative media and feminist cultural production (Atton, 2002).</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Suggested topics include (but are not limited to)</span>:<br>
• Feminist discursive ecologies and media production<br>
• The production of meaning and feminist imaginaries<br>
• Regimes of visuality, sound and materiality<br>
• Care, refuge and social reproduction as cultural practices<br>
• DIY cultures, artivism and independent production<br>
• Feminist audiovisual practices and organisational sustainability<br>
• Urban and digital resistance to anti-gender mobilisations<br>
• Strategies of selective visibility and opacity<br>
• Archives, memory and feminist genealogies<br>
• Feminist temporalities and slow resistance<br>
We particularly welcome discursive and multimodal approaches, material culture studies, media ethnographies, intersectional feminist perspectives and transfeminist approaches.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Submission Guidelines</span><br>
• Abstract (500 words, including references), in Portuguese and English, and a short biographical note, by 30 June 2026.<br>
• Submissions should be sent to resisteslow@gmail.com<br>
• Full chapters (6,000–7,000 words), formatted according to editorial guidelines to be provided, are due by 1 November 2026.</div>
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All proposals will undergo peer review. The volume is expected to be published in one of the book series of the Centre for Communication and Society Research (CECS), University of Minho. For further information, please contact zara@ics.uminho.pt.</div>
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Ahmed, S. (2014). Willful subjects. Duke University Press.<br>
Atton, C. (2002). Alternative media. Sage.<br>
Blidon, M. (2025, 5 de agosto). Reclaiming the city: Feminist and queer resistance to “anti-gender” mobilisations. Urban Matters.<br>
Chidgey, R. (2014). Handmade memories: Remediating cultural memory in DIY feminist networks. In E. Zobl & R. Drüeke (Eds.), Feminist media: Participatory spaces, networks and cultural citizenship (pp. 87-97). Transcript.<br>
Fraser, N., & Bhattacharya, T. (2019). Feminism for the 99%: A manifesto. Verso.<br>
Nixon, R. (2011). Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor. Harvard University Press.<br>
Piepmeier, A. (2009). Girl zines: Making media, doing feminism. NYU Press.<br>
RESIST Project Team. (2024). RESIST D2.1 Report on the effects and everyday resistances to «anti-gender» mobilisations across Europe: A report on nine case studies. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11180745<br>
Tan, J. (2025). Slow resistance: Feminist and queer activism in ‘illiberal’ contexts. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(6), 1900–1907.</div>
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