Call for Chapters

Matricentric Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Motherhood

Edited by Dr Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University)
Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract deadline: Friday 5 June 2026
Full chapter drafts due: Friday 30 July 2027

Matricentric Futures is an interdisciplinary edited collection exploring maternal experience across scholarship, creative practice, clinical insight, and lived testimony. The volume traces maternal experience from conception and birth through care, loss, absence, activism, and creative futurity.

The collection is already in development and under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. Following strong peer review, the editor is now seeking a small number of targeted additional contributions to expand the collection’s geographical, intersectional, and methodological scope.

We particularly welcome proposals addressing:

Geographical and transnational perspectives

• Motherhood beyond the UK context
• Migration, diaspora, borders, and transnational care
• Indigenous and decolonial approaches

Intersectional and structural lenses

• Race and racialised motherhood
• Class, austerity, and precarity
• Disability and neurodiversity
• Queer kinship and non-normative family formations
• Reproductive justice
• Non-motherhood, ambivalence, or refusal

Interdisciplinary and hybrid methodologies

• Co-authored interdisciplinary chapters
• Creative-critical or practice-based research
• Practitioner perspectives grounded in research or policy contexts

Submission guidelines

Please submit:

• a 300–400 word abstract
• a short biography (100–150 words)

Abstracts should outline the proposed contribution’s focus, methodology, and relevance to the collection.

Abstracts due: Friday 5 June 2026
Decisions communicated: Late June 2026
Full chapters (6,000–8,000 words) due: Friday 30 July 2027

Submissions and enquiries should be sent to: Antonia Mackay, p0018377@brookes.ac.uk