Inclusions

The paradigm based on the conceptual couple inclusion/exclusion, which has marked the modern juridical and political mindset, seems to be very uncertain in the currently advanced stage of neoliberal governmentality. The new imposing logic rests on the “promise” of a progressive inclusion of everyone, but it actually works with continuous selections and marginalization – when not exclusions – often in a violent and definitive way. According to Aiwha Ong, these models of social inclusion might be qualified as graduated. This method of government, in full accordance with the empowerment devices and the release of new digital technologies of control, produces new and complex hierarchies, i.e. unprecedented instances of proletarianization, new forms of slavery, new methods of exploitation and boundary rearrangements. The new salience gained by identity issues – in the forms of borders, race, gender and so on and so forth – is to be analyzed against the background of a new logic of government, largely in need of further clarifications.

Therefore, how shall we reconsider and rethink the categories of political and legal philosophy, or of the social sciences as a whole, that interrogate those issues?

The main issues of this call for papers are: differential inclusion, selective inclusion, exploitation, identity, race, borders, gender, subjectivity and neoliberalism, marginality, governmentality, digital democracy.

Soft Power invites submissions of articles of 6,000 to 6,500 words, including footnotes, concerning:

All articles are peer-reviewed using a double-blind peer-review process. Articles must be written in English or in Spanish. Abstracts and keywords must be in English as well as in Spanish in order to facilitate the inclusion in international databases and indexing services.

Papers (with Name, Title, little Abstract – max 20 lines – and Keywords) should be sent toinfo@softpowerjournal.com.

DEADLINES

Articles must be received by Genuary 10th, 2018 (acceptance will be communicated by February 1oth, 2018, after double-blind peer-review).