Universität Graz | kuckuck. notizen zur alltagskultur
This issue is dedicated to the topic of care & activism from a variety of perspectives – including those that remain unmentioned here – and calls for contributions that are at the intersection of the two topics.
Equally welcome are contributions that approach the topic from an activist, collaborative and/or engaged science perspective as well as scientific and/or artistic contributions that bring theoretical, practical and experiential perspectives to the following questions:
Which forms of care are viable for the future? Which practices of care_work can offer resistance to existing inequalities? How can care practices be negotiated in an activist context? What is care_work in an activist context anyway? How can re-production be conceived and practised as activism? Who feels responsible for care_labour in activist initiatives? What significance does care_labour have in the context of other struggles? Who recognises care needs and responds to them? What can care look like as a collective project, as an alternative to state, economic structures that are entangled in neoliberal, post-colonial, patriarchal structures? What ideas, examples and visions of a solidarity-based care economy are there? What about caring for people, the environment, plants, animals and collective forms of reproductive labour? How are gender norms reproduced and at the same time undermined and questioned? How is care negotiated in relationships, through intimacy and sex? How can this care be organised and who should be cared for? Who remains undersupplied, unprovided and excluded from care? What significance do class, gender, age and race play in this? How are they integrated into neoliberal working and living conditions? How do we write about all these issues with care?
They look forward to receiving abstracts, ideas and proposals of 150 words for empirical, conceptual, essayistic, activist and/or artistic contributions as well as a short biographical note from the contributor(s) by March 3rd, 2025 to the following email adress: kuckuck@uni-graz.at
The deadline for submissions is August 3rd, 2025. Contributions should be no longer than 20,000 characters including all references and will go through a collaborative editing process by the kuckuck editorial team.
Further information for authors can be found on the website: https://www.kuckucknotizen.at/kuckuck/index.php/en/preview_en/119-info_author_en