About the Journal

Feminist Asylum offers asylum to feminists in exile and marginalized feminist works. It welcomes non-conventional academic works, notes on ongoing and/or finished research works, feminist accounts of women’s struggles, commentaries, and diverse/fragmental forms of feminist everyday history-writing. By this way of production, we aim to create a platform for academics, intellectuals, artists, and researchers to experience feminism in exile collectively. The journal stands unique in its approach to exile as a crosscutting state of existence in place and in knowledge.  Feminism in exile might manifest in different ways such as exile from nation, exile from society, exile from different social spheres, exile from mind to body, exile from reason to emotions, exile of feminist knowledge practices from academic spaces, to name a few. Asylum on the other hand, hints at the transitivity of knowing through experience, and thus situatedness of knowledge claims.

The journal issues are designed on the basis of pre-determined themes. All the manuscripts submitted are reviewed by the issue editors. The issue editors might also opt for opening the editorial process to the journal editorial collective. The issue editors decide about the reviewers and regulate the process in accordance with a timetable. Research articles are peer-reviewed (double open-ended). Non-academic works are assessed by the relevant members of Journal Advisory Board. Translations are assessed by the relevant members of the editorial collective. Field notes are assessed by the issue editors.

Language offers the venues not only to connect to the other people – friends, colleagues, strangers, unknown audience – but also to the spaces that we find ourselves in. We think that feminist vocabularies across different languages hint at the possibility for spaces to interrogate, discuss and deconstruct the oppressive aspects of our inherited languages.

We are aware that both English and Turkish are colonial languages. Since these are the languages in which we express ourselves, we cannot go beyond them in our feminist endeavors. We are open to expanding language capacity with additional editors.

 

Open Access Policy

 

This journal provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, abides by the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access:

“By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

We adopt critical feminist epistemological premises that prioritize the experience of shared knowledge production. We take it our responsibility to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge as a global public good. We aim to contribute to the sharing of critical, socially responsible knowledge with wider audience under the terms of a Creative Commons CC-BY license.

We encourage the authors to post their articles after publication with due reference to the journal. We believe this practice facilitates the free access of everyone interested to knowledge and increased citation of critical research and analysis.

The authors are not required to pay any amount in the form of processing charges, submission fees, publication fees, or any other costs in order to submit their manuscripts and/or have their articles published in the journal.