Call For Papers: 

AfroNordic Feminisms

This special issue of  Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint. 

We invite submissions engaging with questions such as: 

• What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?

• How do the lived experiences, activism, knowledge production, and expressive cultures of AfroNordic people open up categories of being (Black and) Nordic? 

• And what does the centering of Blackness and anti-Blackness, AfroNordic identities and communities, and AfroNordic feminisms offer to the field of Scandinavian Studies?

We encourage submissions of various formats and from a broad spectrum of scholars, thinkers, organizers, writers and artists working in and across fields such as cultural studies, anthropology,
sociology, and Black studies engaging with these questions and on topics including, but not limited to: 

Intersections of gender, racialization, sexuality, religion and other axes of domination

Nordic Black/Afrofeminisms in relation to other Black feminisms

Black/AfroEuropean /Afropean/AfroNordic identities and community-building

Anti-Blackness and Nordic exceptionalism 

Ways of knowing, representation, cultural expression

African diasporic/Black spaces and place-making

Resistance, activism, and social movements

Solidarities between Black/African diasporic, Indigenous, and other racialized communities

Black/AfroNordic feminist perspectives and praxis

Borders, migrations, mobilities

AfroNordic futurities, abolitionist visions, and collaborative worldmaking

AfroNordic feminist histories and practices of archiving

Guest editors:

Jasmine Kelekay (Howard University) and  Benjamin Mier-Cruz (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

Submissions:

Please submit extended abstracts (500 words) for consideration by Friday, April 4, 2025 via this form.

Invitations to submit full manuscripts will be sent out by Friday, April 18, 2025.

For those selected, full manuscripts (8,000-12,000 words) will be due Friday, July 18, 2025.

Questions can be addressed to the editors at jasmine.kelekay@howard.edu and miercruz@wisc.edu.