Title: “The spiritual and affective turn in the context of neoliberal postfeminisms”

Editors: Nemesia Hijós (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) and Maria Medina-Vicent (Universitat Jaume I).

Submission deadline: 31 August, 2024.

Publication: 1 October, 2025.

Languages: English, Spanish, Valencian.

This monograph reflects on the spiritual and affective turn and its impact in shaping feminist subjectivities in the contemporary neoliberal framework. The emphasis on individual emotional management, the public exposure of the intimate, the quantification of happiness, the pursuit of individual self-improvement, personal transformation and the inner bond, the advance of alternative therapies, the new religiosities, sensibilities and spiritualities, and the rising uptake of personal wellbeing, discourses and self-help books as consumer items are key indicators of the reappearance of a society in which self-care, investment in oneself and the “ego” are becoming the epicentre of social and individual life.

Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi invites researchers to submit their research on these issues through an interdisciplinary lens from the perspectives of critical sociology, democratic theory, feminist and queer theory, anthropology and the history of emotions, political philosophy, applied ethics and other ethnographic approaches from the social sciences and the humanities in general. Submissions from a feminist perspective on these issues are particularly welcomed. The main topics proposed in this call for papers are:

• Emotional skills in the workplace.
• Managing emotions in entrepreneurial and leadership contexts.
• Affects and bodies in resistance.
• Spatialities: the public, the private and the intimate.
• Affective experiences of subjectification in politics.
• Educational practices and teaching-learning processes for ontological and affective modulation.
• Emotional intelligence, corporal experimentation, wellbeing and self-help.
• The recognition of care in feminist movements.
• Mental health and self-management of emotions.