Australian Feminist Law Journal

12/07/2023

⚡⚡NEW ISSUE ALERT ⚡⚡

The Special Issue 'International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Q***r Futures in International Law' guest edited by Manon Beury, Lena Holzer, Juliana Santos de Carvalho & Bérénice K. Schramm has been published!

Contributions include:
'In Search of a Q***rer Law: Two People’s Tribunals in 1976' by Claerwen O'Hara
'Human Rights Discourses and Subject Formations: Tainting Q***r Theory with Psychoanalysis' by Giovanna Gilleri
'Q***r Intersectional Perspective on LGBTI Human Rights Discourses by United Nations Treaty Bodies' by Kseniya Kirichenko
'The Texture of ‘Lives Lived with Law:’ Methods for Q***ring International Law' by Odette Mazel
'Advancing Q***r-inclusive International Human Rights Law Education in Nigerian Classrooms through Indigenous Storytelling: Stories from a Law Classroom at Eko (Lagos, Nigeria)' by David Ikpo
'A Roundtable Conversation: Feminist Collaborative Ethos in International Law' by Shaimaa Abdelkarim, Farnush Ghadery, Rohini Sen & Lena Holzer
'Four Challenges, Three Identities and a Double Movement in Asylum Law: 'Q***ring the ‘Particular Social Group’ after Mx M' by Samuel Ballin
Q***r Methodologies in the Study of Law: Notes about Q***ring Methods' by Leonam Lucas Nogueira Cunha

See the full issue online 👉👉 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfem20/current

28/02/2023

📢Calling feminist legal scholars!📢

The AFLJ publishes scholarship on feminist approaches to law & justice, broadly conceived

We welcome submissions year-round!

Manuscripts should be submitted via our online portal🖥️

For more info see our Aims & Scope https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rfem20

25/11/2022

Arti Gupta's article 'The Unhappy Marriage of ‘Q***rness’ and ‘Culture’: The Present Implications of Fixating on the Past' (forthcoming vol 48(2)) has won the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights! https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/project-type/audre-rapoport-prize/

In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Johar v Union of India, decriminalised consensual same-s*x s*xual activities by reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. A significant aspect of the Court’s reasoning was that Section 377 was an embodiment of ‘Judeo-Christian’ morality and a colonial imposition. In providing that reasoning, the judgment does not stand alone. For a long time now, various revisionist accounts of religious texts and scriptures have been presented to argue that ancient ‘Indian culture’ had been tolerant towards non-normative s*x and gender, and ‘homophobia’ was simply a British imposition. Such revisionist arguments had initially been put forth by Indian q***r rights groups to nullify the orthodox homophobic attitudes which rested on the claim that homos*xuality is alien to ‘our culture’. However, this article argues that there has been an increasing cooptation of such accounts by dominant Hindu Right groups for their political ends. This article also shows that this reliance on the past (through scriptures or otherwise) to confer legitimacy on the present can have the effect of constraining the radical potentialities of that past. At the end, this article argues for a turn towards the future, which, creating new solidarities, can become a horizon of possibilities.

To celebrate winning the 🌟Rapoport Prize🌟 we have temporarily made - Read online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13200968.2022.2140958

14/09/2022

⚡️ISSUE 47(2) IS NOW OUT⚡️
Guest edited by Miriam Bak-McKenna (Associate Professor, Roskilde University) and Maj Grasten (Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School), this Special Issue on 'Law and Gender in Translation' explores the gendered meaning in legal texts and practices by situating the concept of translation at the centre of feminist legal research: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfem20/47/2

05/07/2022

⚡️ISSUE 47(1) IS NOW OUT⚡️

Guest edited by Alice Finden, Gina Heathcote & Paola Zichi, this Special Issue focuses on 'Hygiene, Coloniality, Law'

Not long before the global pandemic, work was underway to bring together ideas on gendered, racialised & colonial constructions of hygiene, health & law. The insights in the Special Issue that emerged from this project are now even more relevant.

Check it out here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfem20/47/1

04/04/2022

The AFLJ is thrilled to launch our new cover and logo, designed by the amazing team at Blend Creative! Check them out: https://blendcreative.com.au; https://www.facebook.com/BlendCreativeSA/; https://www.instagram.com/_blend_creative_/

26/04/2021

The Australian Feminist Law Journal (AFLJ) is pleased to announce its new Editorial Board (‘Editorial Board’).

Founded in 1993, the AFLJ has been an important intellectual home for critical feminist legal scholarship both in Australia and globally. We recognise the extraordinary commitment of the many feminist scholars who have contributed to the journal over the decades, including previous Editorial Board members and the founding editors. As a renown and vital international feminist law journal, the AFLJ has led the way in supporting cutting-edge legal scholarship that pushes at the limits of orthodox legal research and methodologies. The journal has created a unique critical space for publishing feminist research informed by critical theory, cultural and literary theory, jurisprudential, postcolonial and psychoanalytic approaches, among other critical research practices.

The incoming Editorial Board brings together Australian feminist scholars from a wide range of backgrounds and theoretical orientations with a shared passion for questions of law and justice. We believe that the role of law, broadly understood, in contemporary local and global contexts must be critically and rigorously examined through innovative, interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

The incoming Board will honour and deepen the AFLJ’s commitment to publishing innovative feminist research with a strong theoretical orientation. We are committed to building on the AFLJ as a critical academic platform that fosters the development of interdisciplinary and intersectional scholarship and also creating spaces for critical feminist, culturally and linguistically diverse, First Nations/Indigenous, differently-abled, and LGBTIQA+ and q***r perspectives.

The AFLJ will continue to publish scholarly research that expands the scope of legal methodologies in order to re-imagine the possibilities for law and justice in our communities.

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Managing Editors:
Sayomi Ariyawansa (University of Melbourne – Law School)
Balawyn Jones (University of Melbourne – Law School)
Anjalee de Silva (University of Melbourne – Law School)

Editorial Board:
Akuch Anyieth (LaTrobe University – Department of Social Inquiry)
Dina Afrianty (LaTrobe University – Law School)
Annie Blatchford (University of Melbourne – Law School)
Angela Kintominas (UNSW Sydney – Faculty of Law and Justice)
Odette Mazel (University of Melbourne – Law School)
Claerwen O’Hara (University of Melbourne – Law School)
Valeria Vázquez Guevara (University of Melbourne – Law School)

The AFLJ is an international legal journal publishing diverse feminist scholarship on law and justice

03/01/2021

Calling all critical feminist editors! The AFLJ is seeking a new editorial team after the retirement of Editor in Chief Judy Grbich and other valued and long-serving Board members. Please see flyer for details. Applications close Jan 26th 2021.https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/3566833/AFLJ-Editorial-Board-EOI,-December-2020.pdf

24/11/2020

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE

Volume 47(2), 2021

Translating Feminist Jurisprudence

Special Issue Editors: Miriam Bak McKenna and Maj Grasten

A core concern of critical feminist legal studies is the gendered nature of the language of law. Language conducts and projects power and struggles. Its usage is both a political tool and a means of domination, while it also provides opportunities for contestation and change. Despite this, the concept and practice of translation has been and remains a key but relatively neglected concept in feminist legal theories. Practices of translating are constitutive of (gender) hierarchies, categories, and dichotomies. Translation promises to transcend boundaries and efface difference but in doing so conceals and enacts boundaries and binaries, such as male/female, public/private, core/periphery, and North/South. It is in translation that boundaries are inscribed with meaning, become legible and determinate. Translation is therefore not a neutral act of transferring meaning from one context to another where meaning remains stable and determinate throughout the process of translating. Translation is transformative in the sense that it is in and after translation that difference is (re)produced, negotiated, and performed.

This Special Issue seeks to shed light on translational practices and theories as they relate to gender and law in order to map past uses and the potential for engaging with translation and translation as activism in the pursuit of women’s rights. In this way it fosters a dialogue between feminist translation studies and feminist legal studies. Feminist translation studies is an expanding discipline, encompassing fields including gender studies, postcolonial studies, conflict studies, and migration studies. Shared concerns include gendered aspects of language use, discursive manifestations of gender, the power to interpret and assign meaning, and representational distortions and silences.

We invite contributions that question how legal concepts, categories and subjects travel and are translated and with what effects, how feminist jurisprudence is translated and transformed into feminist activism, the translation of conceptions of gender relations between different (con)texts and translation problems related to gender and law, and the role of translators as brokers and intermediaries in negotiating and contesting legal knowledge production and flows.

Deadline for Submissions

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to the Co-Editors, Miriam Bak McKenna [email protected] and Maj Grasten [email protected] by 10 January 2021. Manuscripts will be due by 15 April 2021. Earlier submissions are welcomed.

23/09/2020

Sandy Duncanson Social Justice Fund

Exciting to see Angus McDonald's amazing portrait of Behrouz Boochani shortlisted for the Archibald Prize.

Join us on 14 October for an online conversation between Behrouz and Geordie Williamson, the publisher of his wonderful book, No Friend but the Mountains.

This 10th anniversary Sandy Duncanson Social Justice lecture will be a very special celebration of Sandy's life, Behrouz's freedom, and of all those who seek to make life better for others.

To register, go to https://www.facebook.com/events/240521854041933/

20/09/2020

This is how many jobs each Australian university has cut – or plans to – in 2020

and management salaries in Australian Universities keep getting higher.....time to read Margaret Sims new book......Bullsh*t Towers: Neoliberalism and Managerialism in Universities (Peter Lang 2020)

As the global pandemic rumbles on, Australia’s higher education system is shedding its workforce at an alarming rate.

20/09/2020

Government accused of 'stunning hypocrisy' as New York University gets JobKeeper payment

Australia's right wing federal government attempting to dismantle Universities.... but why? Why fund New York University operating in Sydney, but not fund employees in Australian Universities?

The ABC confirms the university, which rakes in about $16.5 billion in revenue each year and is ranked the 11th best school in the US, received the payments while Australian public universities missed out.

20/09/2020

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30/07/2020

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"Remember that every single person deserves equal respect and generosity." Helen Mirren shares her top five rules for a happy life