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Call for Papers: Gender & Society Special Issue – Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities (Due 2/1/25)

Posted: 12/6/2024 ()

Call for papers: Gender & Society Special Issue — Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities, due by Feb 1st, 2025.

Guest Editors: Christin L. Munsch (University of Connecticut) and Daisy Verduzco Reyes (UC-Merced)

This special issue explores the relationship between feminism, metascience, and open science, seemingly disparate areas of inquiry of contemporary significance. This special issue will be a forum for feminist scholars to explore these relationships. For example:

  • Why hasn’t a feminist metascience or feminist open science emerged?
  • Why hasn’t metascience recognized or incorporated feminist critiques of science?
  • What can theories of gender and intersectionality bring to metascience and/or open science practices? And, what might such a perspective look like? (Examples of such approaches welcome.)
  • What is the relationship between transparency and oppression?
  • In what ways are social justice movements aligned with the open science movement? In what ways are they contradictory?
  • How might intersectional perspectives inform open science praxis to both improve research quality and challenge systemic inequalities? (Examples welcome.)
  • And, how might metascientific research, broadly defined, be used to generate new theoretical insights and empirical knowledge regarding gender? (Examples welcome.)

 

Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to: the impact of open science on gender justice; bias and discrimination in research participation, academia, research, and publishing; experiences of marginalized groups in social science; the role of metascience in shaping inclusive research practices; feminist epistemologies including Black feminisms, Latinx feminisms, and feminisms of the global South; feminist methodology; gender and academic fraud and/or error; gender and participation in open science practices like data-sharing; reproducibility projects as gendered; research transparency as gendered; feminist research ethics; gendered public engagement; peer review; the evaluation of scientific impact; and publishing and publication bias. We welcome papers that employ quantitative and qualitative methods and perspectives, draw attention to culturally and politically distinctive struggles; incorporate power structures such as colonialisms, nationalisms, religion, ethnicity, and globalization in their analyses; or otherwise challenge hegemonic discourses and epistemologies.

 

All papers must make both a theoretical and empirical contribution.

Completed manuscripts, due February 1, 2025, should be submitted online to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gendsoc and should specify in the cover letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue. Although it is not required, potential authors are encouraged to contact either of the guest editors with their ideas before submitting: Christin L. Munsch (christin.munsch@uconn.edu) or Daisy Verduzco Reyes (daisy.reyes@ucmerced.edu).

The full call is available at: https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions-special-issue/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1rb2-4wM6oB_roCRRQSemdSluIgEPabVMZYRoQfCItS2b9d-oHhJBgESc_aem_ZxAzlvj1GTE0y1ZNfnsPVQ.

Deadline: 02/01/2025