CFP: Prose Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Submission deadline: June 1, 2015

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Recent work in the history of human rights argues
internationalization of rights has converged with the rationalization
of neoliberal economic policies, such as the dismantling of the
welfare state. If human rights and market fundamentalisms do share a
similar trajectory, what definitions or characteristics of the human
emerge from the common ground of this shared trajectory? How do
alternative bodies of critical work in law, rights, race and
corporality share in this alignment or depart from it – (e.g.
critical race theory, transgender studies and queer theories, Black
and Chicana feminisms, theoretical work on reproductive technology)?
To what extent and in what contexts are human rights networks
functioning as technologies of neoliberalism? If the human of human
rights is increasingly tethered to neoliberal rationalities, can
human rights thrive as a counter-hegemonic movement? How are human
rights activists, critical race and critical legal theorists,
writers, and scholars – or others – newly imagining or productively
challenging the relationship between the juridical human (legal
personhood) and human capital (entrepreneurial self)?

We welcome analyses of non-fiction texts (ethnography, medical and
scientific reports, human rights reports, public policy, political,
social and philosophical treatises, the forms that elicit demographic
or other data, essays, diaries, letters, autobiography, biography,
news media, and social media activism) that focus on the link between
juridical humanity and economic models of human value. We are
particularly interested in essays that explore the impact on human
rights and/or texts that may invite, enable, or problematize acts of
human recognition and resistance. How can the work of engaging with
or excavating texts help us to revalue the ways that humans matter?

Direct questions on format and review to Special Issue co-editor
Wendy Hesford ([email protected]) or Prose Studies editor Clare A.
Simmons ([email protected]).

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015.

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Kristin Ferebee, and Stephanie Athey

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