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Call for Managing Editor Role

International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP) is a leading source of academic research at the intersection of global politics, feminist, gender, and queer scholarship, and activism published by Taylor and Francis (T&F). It publishes 5 issues per year, with each issue composed of 6-9 articles, a Conversation Section and a Book Review Section. We are currently seeking a new Managing Editor for the Journal to provide the administrative support for the editorial team and oversee the production process of the journal. It is a part-time position of 20-25 hours/a week, remote-work and flexible work hours,  determined by a rigid production schedule of the 5 issues we publish annually. The applicant must have experiences working independently in project management, providing academic administrative support and demonstrated copyediting skills. Previous experience working in academic publishing is ideal but not required. Start date is January 2026 but with paid transition period working with the current Managing Editor November/December 2025.

About the role

The Managing Editor’s responsibilities include:

Submissions and peer review process

• Processing new submissions in ScholarOne (publishing platform used by Taylor and Francis) for Editors and supporting papers to be sent out for review

• Alerting Editors when all reviewer reports have been received and a decision is needed or when further reviewer names are needed

• Checking decision letters and processing decisions

• Liaising with authors e.g. about overdue reports, extending windows for submissions of reports, certificates etc.

• Maintaining spreadsheets and records e.g. of papers accepted and rejected

Post-acceptance and production

• Sending out the social media request message on behalf of the Digital Media Team

• Necessary copy-editing, and if needed managing a small pool of copy-editors

• Exporting final files to T&F via ScholarOne

• Checking all proofs at the same time as authors

• Checking revised proofs to ensure that all corrections have been made and approving for publication

• Liaising with T&F’s Production Editor

Issues

• Following T&F’s schedules to ensure the publication of 5 issues a year

• Proposing potential contents of issues for editorial discussion/approval

• Ensuring that main editorials and Conversations/Book Reviews editorials are written and checked for each issue

• Checking full proofs for each issue

Editorial Board

• Communicating with the Editorial Board e.g. about annual meetings, calls for papers, new initiatives

• Fielding queries and suggestions from the Editorial Board

• Compiling stats annually on articles/Conversations pieces/book reviews for inclusion in the Editorial report

Miscellaneous

• Sending out regular updates to and on behalf of the editorial team on items needing attention

• Liaising with Special Issue editors and sending them regular updates

• Preparing agendas and accompanying documents for editorial meetings, and then taking notes and circulating minutes

• Liaising with the Digital Media Team to ensure that items are posted on the website/social media

• Updating all email templates

• Assisting Editors-in-Chief with any various initiatives/projects

Application instructions

Interested applicants should send their CVs and a brief cover letter speaking to the qualifications to ifjp@cardiff.ac.uk. Please include in the email subject heading ‘Application - Managing Editor Role’. The call closes on 21 September 2025.

All short-listed candidates will be interviewed.

Salary is competitive for a part time role. 

The International Feminist Journal of Politics invites proposals for a special issue on “Digitalisation, AI and Feminist Futures”. The call targets participants from our joint conference with Feminist Africa in Maputo in July of 2024, but we also welcome new submissions. We are especially interested in submissions from the continent of Africa and the African diaspora.

The Special Issue (SI) seeks to develop feminist understandings of the current technological revolution characterized by the rapid development of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Like any revolution, this one is full of contradictions, promising new freedoms and opportunities on the one hand, while spawning frightening disruptions and disorienting innovations on the other. Proponents of AI, notably machine learning, promise that it will enhance human capacities for creating better worlds. But powerful interests are fuelling these disruptions, embedding patriarchal, capitalist and imperial logics, and existing inequalities are often baked into these new technologies. Thus, violence and harassment, digital surveillance, and new forms of labour informality thrive online marked by intersecting inequalities of class, race, gender, and generation. Moreover, digital divides make it difficult for women and marginalized persons in resource-constrained contexts to access new technologies, fostering new exclusions.

As technological developments outpace projects of social justice, we considered it urgent to interrogate these phenomena. We are proposing to continue the conversations started at the Maputo conference in the pages of IFJP.

We are inviting submissions that seek to understand the imperial, neocolonial, and patriarchal dynamics of digitalisation and AI as they play out in spaces structured by the operations of transnational digital corporations, colonial histories and structures of domination, and amid shifting geopolitical configurations of power. We are particularly interested in submissions that address the implications of the current technological revolution for building feminist futures that transcend capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism. Most contributions will take the form of research papers, but we also invite non-traditional formats and Conversations. For more information on Conversations, please visit this page.

The Maputo conference focused on the three broad themes of governance and democracy; work; and knowledge production. This call is not limited to these themes, but the following topics are indicative of the kinds of papers we are initially looking for:

Governance and Democracy

• How are digital technology and IA put in the service of martial politics and armed violence? How do they change understandings of war and security? How are they reshaping the meaning of violence and of the place of human bodies in violent assemblages?

• How have digital technologies been used to galvanise conservative, nationalist and populist sentiments, and hate crimes? How can governance address new forms of physical violence motivated by participation in digital communities and online games? What efforts exist to hold digital technology corporations accountable, in differing social and economic contexts?

• How can feminists disrupt the corporate capture of digital technologies and what alternatives are they creating? What is the scope for constructing a more-egalitarian digital commons? How can digital technologies and AI be used to envision and work towards feminist futures that are free from violence and injustice?

Work

• What are the configurations of power relations among online labour and service platforms, the companies setting them up, clients, and workers in diverse contexts? What infrastructures, rules, and materials are assumed to be/actually are in place and how do these affect the work practices, bodies, emotions, and intimate/personal domains of the minoritized and marginalised persons engaged in platform labour?

• What kinds of work do minoritized and marginalised persons do in locally-based gig economies? How do they view their earnings and working conditions? What gendered, racialised, and colonial power relations do they negotiate, including with global companies?

• How do digital technologies and AI influence social reproduction, whether in the form of women’s unpaid care and domestic labour, or in terms of state provisioning and/or private sector/community-based provision of various forms of welfare and care?

Knowledge

• How are digital technologies and AI changing/disrupting/resignifying the meanings of the human? What does embodiment and situated knowing mean in light of these new assemblages of human/non-human?

• How do digitalisation and AI affect how we research and teach? How do digitalization and AI impact/transform feminist pedagogy? How does digitalisation impact the circulation of scholarly knowledge, and of feminist and gender studies knowledge in particular? How do feminist journals negotiate current technological developments?

• How can feminist theories and practice be drawn upon to advance more equitable, just, and non-violent feminist futures? How are alternative imaginations of feminist futures grappling with notions of spatiality and temporality beyond the international and/or the global?

We invite submissions for this Special Issue through the IFJP submissions portal by September 1st, 2025. For more information contact Elisabeth Prügl or Marysia Zalewski at ifjp[at]cardiff.ac.uk.

Global feminist scholarship is flourishing, with a significant number of new books that explore feminist politics and gender relations in a global frame published each year. The IFJP Book Reviews Section provides a space where new work and new ideas can be made visible, critically discussed, and brought into conversation across established disciplinary, spatial and discursive boundaries. Our book reviewers make significant contributions to our intellectual community through identifying emergent and innovative literature and analytical directions, and through contributing to thoughtful and critical intellectual exchange.  

IFJP is now issuing a special call for review essays that cover at least three recent books. Review essays discuss several texts on the same theme and bring them into conversation with each other, aiming to explore a recent debate or emerging research field that has generated a range of new publications. While review essays should be written in English, we also welcome submissions that review feminist scholarship published in other languages, and discuss ongoing debates beyond English-speaking academia. With the aim of fostering a truly global feminist community of scholars, this will allow a broader range of feminist scholarship to be debated in IFJP, and allow IFJP readers to learn about and benefit from feminist scholarship representing diverse positionalities and perspectives.

Review essays should be between 2000-2500 words long. To maximize the availability of these review essays, they will be made free access for six months from the date of online publication.

If you are interested in submitting a review essay, please contact the Book Reviews Editors: Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Elin Berg, Jenny Hedström, Leena Vastapuu, Annick T.R. Wibben, and Julia Zulver.

For further information, please refer to the journal’s FAQ page on Book Reviews.