Seeking submissions for the series:

Theorizing from Within
Edited by Victoria Reyes and Ghassan Moussawi

This series is rooted in Black, women of color, indigenous, and transnational feminisms that take seriously that the personal is political and that one’s embodied experiences within particular structural positions are key sources of knowledge to develop arguments, build theory, and extend existing research. Thus, we seek authors whose book projects draw on and use their own social worlds, interactions, experiences, and knowledges to theorize broader structural processes. While topically open to substantive content, we are particularly interested in manuscripts that interrogate systems of oppression and domination, including but not limited to racial capitalism, coloniality, gendered racisms, carcerality, affect and temporality, health and disability studies, and empire. We welcome works that combine these reflexive data and methods with more traditional ones such as archives, interviews, ethnography, oral histories, and close reading of texts and material objects. In particular, we seek to highlight manuscripts that draw on and speak to multiple audiences and that truly embrace interdisciplinary thinking and theorizing.

The erasure of the personal is a political choice. Further, without careful attention to the self, research obscures how interior life is central to knowledge production. Although we are currently witnessing a Du Boisian turn in the social sciences, what remains absent from this recovery is his methodological use of the self to theorize. As scholars, we stand witness to what we study. Informed by James Baldwin, we see witnessing as an ethical principle that guides our work, especially when it comes to the study of power and marginalizations. However, if methodological practices are not transformed alongside theoretical insights, researchers will continue to reproduce in practice the very kinds of knowledge production and gatekeeping they critique.

SERIES ADVISORY BOARD: Elizabeth Bernstein, Crystal Baik, Chris Barcelos, mimi khúc, Martin Manalansan, Aldon Morris, Mary Romero, and Assata Zerai.

Submissions to the series are welcome to contact:
Victoria Reyes <vreyes@ucr.edu> and
Ghassan Moussawi <moussawi@illinois.edu>, or

Ryan Mulligan, Editor, Temple University Press <ryan.mulligan@temple.edu>

Temple University Press
tupress.temple.edu