Call for Papers: on Them Among Us: No Nation for the Less Equals, Abstract Submission Deadline- 31 March 2025
- Special Issue of Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)
- Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi
This special issue focuses on the critical practices that define the concept of the New Xenophobia, linked as it is to the varied forms of Othering and violence in the age of neoliberalism. In the context of the ongoing economic and migrant crises in Europe, Tabish Khair pointedly contends in his book, The New Xenophobia (2016), that violence has become abstract. The new xenophobia is an accentuated trait of neoliberal capitalism focusing on not all immigrants, but “illegal immigrants; not all Muslims, but religious Muslims, etc.
Contributors are encouraged to submit proposals that seek to engage with the abovementioned issues, asking questions that include but are not limited to:
• Neoliberalism and the New Xenophobia
• Colonizing borders
• Precarious bodies
• Abstract and slow violence in the neoliberal age
• Literature of the Global South and pedagogical tools for worldmaking
• Literature and human rights
• Ethics of bearing witness
• Testimonial literature
• Decolonial thought in the age of extractive capitalism
• Refugees and Border-Bodies
- Please submit an abstract of 500 words by March 31, 2025 to [email protected] & [email protected]
- Complete paper submission: December 10, 2025
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