IJCDS News

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.2.0119
• Published date: 23 September 2022
• Date: 23 September 2022
• Pages: 119-120

International Journal of CRITICAL DIVERSITY STUDIES 4.2 December 2021

IJCDS News

In Memory of Finn Reygan

IJCDS notes with great sadness the passing of one of our board members Finn Reygan.

Finn was part of our board since the establishment of this journal and he has greatly

contributed to our work. His absence will be deeply felt.

Call for Papers

VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2, WOKENESS, SLEEPWALKING AND STUPORS:

THE WAR ON SOCIAL JUSTICE DISCOURSE

IJCDS invites scholars to submit manuscripts for a special issue that that engages with the

metaphor of “awakeness” and wishes to invite thinking on awareness, social conscientiza-

tion, critical consciousness, and the attempts to prevent, reverse, and generally provide all

manner of soporifics, sedatives and lullabies in both political and popular culture to counter

democratically-inspired discourse.

The world as we know it is undergoing dynamic transformation. Many gains have been

made in recent decades towards loosening the grip of some of the belief systems that have

enabled many systemic inequalities in the modern world. The ideological underpinnings of

white supremacy, heteropatriarchy and coloniality, for example, have been rigorously chal-

lenged and are being steadily eroded, leading to changes in legal frameworks, social practices

and the norms of acceptable everyday behaviour. As these pressures of norm change acceler-

ate, coupled with shifting demographics within nation-states and moving geo-political

dynamics, the resistance and mobilization against change has also accelerated, a fact indel-

ibly etched on the global imagination in the images of the attack on the US Capitol Hill by

right-wing groups, egged on by the erstwhile President of the US, Donald Trump.

One of the most virulent forms this resistance has taken is the war on Critical Race Theory

and Gender Studies as discourses supportive of social change. We envisage articles to span

topics/fields such as:

• The censorship of Critical Race Theory; gender, sexual and reproductive knowledge

and other diversity discourses

• The “war on wokeness”

• Cancel culture

• Freedom of speech/academic freedom and critical approaches to hate speech

• New forms of eugenicist thinking, as in language of genetics, or populist Covid-19

discourse, especially as these impact people living with disabilities and the elderly

DOI:10.13169/INTECRIT DIVESTUD.4.2.0119