Announcements
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Expressions of interest and abstracts: I plan to organize an online workshop (in October 2025) where drafts can be presented and discussed. Please indicate your interest in contributing to the Special Issue by the end of April 2025 by submitting: (a) An abstract of no more than 500 words; (b) A brief, informal description of your background and/or interest in autotheory; (c) Whether you are interested in contributing to and participating in the online workshop.
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Full papers (maximum 9,000 words) are due by the end of January 2026; they will undergo a blind peer-review procedure (for details, see here). Note that it is also possible to submit a full paper without having expressed prior interest.
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In terms of form, all contributions should employ autotheoretical methods and modes of presentation; this is a collection of autotheoretical essays, not of essays about autotheory. Taking seriously the critical and explorative nature of autotheory, this Special Issue offers you the creative freedom to experiment with new forms of expression.
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In terms of content, the Special Issue seeks to do justice to our affective lives in all their plurality, variety, and ambiguity, acknowledging the violence, cruelty, and injustices of our world while also celebrating life’s fragile pleasures, joys, and beauties.
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Exploring affective injustice in relation to emotional states other than anger, such as gratitude, hope, contempt, and pride
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Affective injustice and moods
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Affective injustice in online environments
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Affective injustice and mental health
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Affective injustice and social-economic class
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Affective injustice and heteronormativity
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Affective injustice and colonialism
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Affective injustice and gaslighting
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The relationship between affective injustice and other forms of injustice, such as distributive injustice, epistemic injustice, and aesthetic injustice
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Critical and historical engagements with the concept of ‘affective injustice’
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Limitations of the notion of affective injustice
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Affective justice and affective liberation
Special Issue Call For Papers: Feminist Philosophy of Emotions
Editors: Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and Arina Pismenny
Following the excellent pre-conference workshop on Feminist Philosophy of Emotions in Lisbon 2024, the call for papers for the special issue on this topic is now open! This special issue aims to explore critical/feminist approaches to the philosophy of emotion. Our guest editors invite contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Embodiment and gendered emotional experiences
- Power dynamics and emotions
- Feminist critiques of traditional theories of emotion
- Emotional labor and affective injustice
- The epistemic role of emotions under conditions of oppression
- Ethical implications of feminist perspectives on emotions
- Political implications of feminist perspectives on emotions
Submission deadline: 1 July 2025