Call for Papers: Work, Body and Injustice
This special issue proposal aims to inspect the intertwinement between body, employment, and professional activities by putting together papers of researchers cooperating with the UGR Extraordinary Chair on Body Discrimination.
The editors have been PI of Spanish research projects on social philosophy funded by the AEI of the Government of Spain. The editors encourage researchers to submit contributions addressing how employment practices demand a modification of morphology and bodily care and how jobs adopt strongly discriminatory characteristics insofar as they privilege certain body types while excluding others. Moreover, the editors will consider papers dealing with the sets of feelings of injusticeensuing from the contemporary transformation of work. Put it in a nutshell, such feelings stem from the fact that the subject is embedded in an economy of valorization of certain bodies which make other ones invisible. Furthermore, the working subject undergoes the suffering ensuing from the disparity between the work she develops on her own body and the consequent retribution she receives.
We invite interested researchers to submit their proposals for manuscripts, which should be submitted through the journal’s platform: https://revistas.uminho.pt/index.php/eps/about/submissions
The articles must adhere to the format required by the journal (https://revistas.uminho.pt/index.php/eps/about/submissions) and not exceed 10,000 words (including notes and references). The deadline for submissions is May 15th, 2025. After the submission, the articles will undergo double-blind peer review.
For further information, interested researchers can contact the guest editors of the dossier, José Luis Moreno Pestaña (jlmorenopestana@ugr.es) and Nuria Sánchez Madrid (nuriasma@ucm.es).
Highlighted Topics
—The construction of bodily dispositions and capacities in professional activities, with a special focus on low-value jobs, artistic and intellectual professions, and politics.
—The body as social and economic value and merit.
—Body exploitation at the workplace.
—Occupational diseases and psychopathologies.
—Gender, class and race dimensions of contemporary bodily oppression and exploitation.
—The cultural history of Injustice against the Body.
—Body, work, and social theory
