Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023)

Feminist activists, artists, and theorists have long questioned the body as an individual, unitary, singular and complete object drawing attention to the fleshy complexities of bodies that take form through social relations, political action, environments, interactions, accidents, traumas, and events. They have also questioned the meaning of subjectivity and those discursive practices that have led to the confinement of corporeality in flesh, place, space, and time. Through critical reassessments of the genealogy of European, colonial humanisms in modernity, many feminist thinkers have engaged in a critical break from exclusionary forms of humanism that have positioned the Eurocentric, white, ablebodied ‘Man’ of reason as the universal subject of politics and the measure of human progress. 

In this issue, contributors are encouraged to explore and critically assess the multiple methods and onto-epistemologies that simultaneously create and are created from bodily matters, body parts, experiences, embodied political actions, corporeality and other fleshy viscera that constitute the embodiment of exile and asylum. We especially invite works of feminist knowledge that relate to questions of where, how, and in which form exile and asylum are experienced - i.e., spatially, temporally and bodily. As usual Feminist Asylum: A Journal of Critical Interventions is open to any genre of feminist work - extending from not-necessarily conventional academic manuscripts, commentaries, field notes, research notes, artworks - visual, prose or poetry - book reviews, interviews, conversations.

We invite works that address - but are not limited to - the following questions:

• To what extent can bodies, places and politics be considered dynamic processes of composition and decomposition?
• What are the embodied relational dynamics at play in the construction of asylum and/or exile?
• What are the class-dynamics of corporeality as practices in asylum and/or exile?
• How does the body act as a border, a carceral state of being, and/or as the subject/object of liberation, political action, space, and/or place?
• To what extent does the body present an ecosystem that extends beyond the limits of human corporeality to encompass a place of asylum for members of the non-human world?
• What can post-anthropocentric feminisms contribute to experiences, discussions and representations of exile and/or asylum?
• Thinking through the complexity and the embedded, multifarious, and sexuate materiality of all entities, what new relationships and cross-species collaborations might emerge to challenge mainstream knowledge about exile and/or asylum, politics, place, and embodiment?
• What are the implications of carceral practices for feminist knowledge as and through exile and/or asylum?
• What are the implications of feminist knowledge as praxis in struggling against carceral practices?
• How can feminist knowledge as praxis contribute to struggling against state oppressions on our bodies, and the prospects for being in space and time freely?