Call for Papers: The special issue of Scandinavian Studies: AfroNordic Feminisms

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

Submissions are invited that engage with questions such as:

• What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in contexts such as the U.S., Africa, and other AfroEuropean regions?
• How do the lived experiences, activism, knowledge production, and expressive cultures of AfroNordic people expand understandings of Black and Nordic identities?
• What insights does the centering of Blackness and anti-Blackness, AfroNordic identities and communities, and AfroNordic feminisms offer to the field of Scandinavian Studies?

Submissions in various formats are encouraged from scholars, thinkers, organizers, writers, and artists working across disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and Black studies. Topics of interest include, but are 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, and 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, and mobilities
• AfroNordic futurities, abolitionist visions, and collaborative worldmaking
• AfroNordic feminist histories and archival practices

Guest Editors: 

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

Submissions: 

Extended abstracts (500 words) should be submitted for consideration by Friday, April 4, 2025 via this form
Invitations to submit full manuscripts will be sent by Friday, April 18, 2025.
For those selected, full manuscripts (8,000–12,000 words) will be due by Friday, July 18, 2025.

For inquiries, contact the editors at jasmine.kelekay@howard.edu and miercruz@wisc.edu.

Scandinavian Studies, official journal of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, focuses on the languages, cultures, and histories of the Nordic region, including the countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. It is an interdisciplinary journal spanning work in the humanities and social sciences, and as such serves as an outlet for original research in the languages, literatures, histories, cultures, and societies of the region, ranging from medieval to contemporary times.