Affilia

Impact Factor: 1.8

Coeditors-in-Chief: Sara Goodkind, Mimi Kim, Jennifer Zelnick

Discipline: Sociology

Description:

Affilia foregrounds critical feminist research and praxis in social work. In 1986, the founding editors created Affilia as a dedicated space for feminist voices. It aimed to fill a gap in mainstream social work journals that did not publish articles that focused on issues concerning women, thus creating space for discourses on topical and methodological challenges that have shifted over time. We, the current editorial board members, take an intersectional approach to gender to address challenges that minoritized scholars and practitioners experience in the discipline. In the forged space of Affilia, we are intentional about including the perspectives of those who are at the margins, the experiences of minoritized bodies, and the contributions of scholars from diverse social, geographical, and theoretical locations. Meanwhile, we embrace our responsibility to trouble our own views and assumptions and to reflect the diverse feminist perspectives driving ongoing debates and considerations. Within our editorial process we are committed to centering an ethics of care, foregrounding relationships, and facilitating the development of critical feminist perspectives.Contemporary feminisms are rooted in critical, intersectional analyses of the lived experiences of individuals and groups in the context of complex structures, systems, and discourses of power and privilege. We stand firm in resisting the erasure of histories of social movements and liberation struggles. Indeed, we are committed to interrogating social work’s own complex discursive histories, which include harms, erasures, discipline, and liberatory practices. Affilia publishes interdisciplinary, groundbreaking, and thought-provoking scholarship, book reviews, and artwork that challenge taken-for-granted knowledge, raise new questions, generate innovative theories and methodologies, reflect global diversities, and illuminate divergent, liberatory, action-oriented pathways for social work theory, research, practice, and teaching.See the latest winner of the Affilia Award for Distinguished Feminist Scholarship and Praxis in Social Work here.This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/affilia.