Call for Submissions for a Special Issue: Advancing Art-full Praxes

Intersectionalities invites transdisciplinary contributions that critically engage the transformative potential of what we are calling “art-full praxes.” Art-full praxes foreground creative, embodied, and process-oriented ways of knowing that connect artistic practice with critical scholarship and social justice engagement. Art-full praxes are often engaged within a range of approaches (e.g., research-creation, performative inquiry, arts-based research, and arts-informed inquiry). We invite contributors to critically reflect on the possibilities, tensions, and transformative potential of art-full praxes within their scholarly and community-engaged work.

We understand art-full praxes to include the interweaving of: a) Theorizing, such as anti-racist, anti-colonial, abolitionist, feminist, anti-capitalist, and environmental justice, anti-ableist, and other critical theory; b) Practices and processes, which are relational, creative, arts-engaged, care-based, collaborative, embodied, ethical, trauma-informed, affective, transformative, multidirectional learning, and embedded in social justice principles; and c) Transformative change, from community activism, research and engagement, global and local systemic policy change, transformative curriculum and pedagogies, and solidarity-building.

Key questions animating this special issue include:

• How do scholars’ art-full praxes activate, enhance, and transform the interplay and potency of their theoretical, practice/process, and change-making commitments?
• What possibilities and tensions emerge within the terrains of art-full praxes? For instance, how might art-full praxes reshape knowledge production, relational care, pedagogy and/or ethical engagement in ways that ignite new openings while simultaneously revealing new tensions or constraints?
• What politics, power relations, and ethical questions entangle art-full praxes, including questions of representation, institutionalization, risk, exclusion, racial capitalism, coloniality, and the domestication or feminization of creative social justice work?

Submission process and deadlines: Submit a 250-word abstract by September 25, 2026 to jherdman@mun.ca. Selected authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts, due January 28, 2027 via the journal’s online submission portal. Find us at www.intersectionalities.mun.ca.

Special Issue Editors: Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, School of Social Work, Memorial University sshaikh@mun.ca; Julia E. Janes, School of Social Work, Memorial University jjanes@mun.ca; Morgan Gardner, Faculty of Education, Memorial University mgardner@mun.ca.