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WIM 2026 : Call for Book Chapters: Women in Motion: Perspectives from the Indian Subcontinent

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Abstract Registration Due Nov 25, 2015
Submission Deadline Mar 15, 2026
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Call for Book Chapters Title: Women in Motion: Perspectives from the Indian Subcontinent

Socio-cultural factors such as gender, class, caste, ethnicity, etc. determine the motion of an individual, making the discourse especially relevant when it comes to articulating experiences of motion by/of women in the Indian subcontinent. Studies interplaying ‘motion’ and ‘female bodies’ continue to be an important avenue of exploration, illuminating how women have been navigating motion – spatially, temporally, corporeally, cognitively, socially, culturally, historically.

In the Indian subcontinent, women’s accessibility to movement and hence, access to public spaces is hinged on the class and caste they come from. Traditionally, women of the Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi communities have always taken part as the workforce to supplement resources otherwise available to women hailing from upper-class strata of the society, who were sanctioned within the premises of their homes. However, the dynamics of spatiality and temporality of motion and its affordance to women have drastically changed in the last two - three decades, with almost 210-215 million working women in India employed in both organised and unorganised sectors.

Investigations have been made to analyse mobility and gender across the board in the Indian context. Nikhil Anand’s Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Politics in Mumbai (2017) uses the infrastructure of water systems to analyse the different factors affecting the mobility of citizens in Mumbai. Why Loiter? (2011) by Shilpa Phadke, Shilpa Ranade, and Sameera Khan posits ‘loitering’ as a radical act of reclaiming spaces by women. Priti Ramamurthy’s work uses a feminist lens to assess ‘commodity chain’ and seeks to observe gendered labour and mobility patterns of women in rural areas. Smita Mishra Panda’s scholarship on women labour in Odisha demonstrates the problem of mobility of women in the climate crisis. Sujata Subramanian’s works inspect digital mobility by navigating social media activism by Dalit women. Malini Sur’s Jungle Passport (2021) explores mobility around borders and transnationality. Anuja Agrawal enquires on the affective impact of mobility on kinship and subsequent reconfiguration of gender and family norms in transnational settings.

This edited volume is an attempt to theorize motion beyond the scientific investigation and instead look into it from a socio-cultural perspective that goes beyond the conventional understanding of motion, and study its immediate and long-term impacts on the lives of women. Based on the ideas mentioned henceforth, this book will be interested in exploring the multifacetedness of motion through the following 6 sections and subsections:

1. Corporeality - Motion of/in Bodies, Affections/Emotions, Memories, Trans(genderism), Kinship

2. Visible/Invisible Motion - Disability, Temporality, Spatiality

3. Geography, Location, and Motion - Liquid Modernity and Globalisation, Transportation, Motion in Urban/Rural/Third Space

4. Capitalism and Motion - Retail, Quick Commerce, Labour in unorganised sectors

5. Mobility in the Digital World - Circulation of images/ideas solidifying into stereotypes, Robots, AI, Video Games

6. Futurities and Possibilities - Motion by Technoself - avatar, hologram, role playing games, Techno-autocratic Futures, Techno-Feudalism


Timeline:
● Abstract Submission Deadline: 25 November 2025
● Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2025
● Full Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March 2026
● Word Limit: 5000-7000 words (including references)

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts (300-350 words) along with a short bio (150 words) and 5-6 keywords should be sent to womeninmotion.book@gmail.com by 25 November 2025. All contributors are requested to adhere to MLA 9.

Publishing Details: We are in touch with a reputed publisher for the publication of the edited volume.

About the Volume Editors:

Ritika is a PhD candidate at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, researching the intersections of Trauma, Memory and Body Politics. She runs a submission-based digital collective called While You’re Here Collective (https://www.whileyoureherecollective.com/) that aims at documenting the experience of survivors of sexual assault and violence.

Sameyah Roomi is a PhD candidate at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her research interests include Trauma and Memory Studies, Feminist and Digital Studies, and Popular Culture.

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