Editorial: Swan song
Editorial: Swan song
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社论：《天鹅之歌》
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2017
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K. Davis
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这是我最后一篇社论。自从2003年我和玛丽·埃文斯成为共同编辑以来，我一直在为这本杂志写社论，所以把这篇文章写成告别之歌似乎是合适的。一首天鹅之歌作为一首欢乐的颂歌，但也是通过古老的，在我看来，往往被低估的，编辑机构向学术期刊投稿的责任。你们中的许多人可能发现自己经常跳过你所阅读的期刊的编辑部分，因为你认为它们很无聊，而且作为强制性的，对本期文章的形式介绍，没有提供太多的兴趣。作为《欧洲妇女研究杂志》的编辑，我们努力改变这种状况。我们希望我们的社论能为我们的期刊做一些工作：作为一种工具，表达我们作为编辑对性别研究领域正在发生的事情的看法，解决目前在学术界进行研究的困境，并评论相关的社会和政治发展。我们还希望社论能为我们提供一个发泄个人担忧的空间--一位前编辑称之为“好好抱怨”。通过这种方式，我们希望激发读者思考我们认为重要的问题，并引发讨论和辩论。写社论不像其他类型的写作。它可以是自发的，相对无痛，但也令人痛心，有时甚至可怕。让我解释一下写社论对我意味着什么，总编辑会温和地提醒我该轮到我了。恐慌总是会发生，因为我似乎从来没有事先准备好一个话题。我会花上几天的时间仔细思考，然后--突然--它就在那里：主题，想法，我绝对知道我必须写的东西。没有什么比社论更能让你为自己感兴趣的事情辩护了。没有保留，没有拐弯抹角。强烈的陈述，最好是第一人称，没有脚注或引用的论证性话语，所有的话都必须在2000字或更少的话。这样写可能会令人兴奋，甚至是解放，但也会令人恐惧，因为有你最发自内心的咆哮，在世界上-正如荷兰人所说的，裸露的屁股-让人们看到，喜欢，不喜欢，同意或不同意，鼓掌或攻击。在过去的15年里，我对什么充满激情？我希望看到性别研究领域朝哪个方向发展？为了回答这些问题，我重读了我的21篇社论。这是一次回忆之旅。我已经忘记了过去让我如此愤怒的许多问题（有时是阿姆斯特丹的艺术展览或性别研究会议上的随机评论）。但令人惊讶的是，其中许多人与我目前的担忧产生了共鸣。重读我的社论咆哮，我发现了三个问题，继续困扰我：缺乏跨国691724 EJW 0010.1177/1350506817691724欧洲妇女杂志编辑研究-article 2017
This is my last editorial. I’ve been writing editorials for this journal since I became coeditor with Mary Evans in 2003, so it seems appropriate to make this something of a swan song. A swan song as an ode to the pleasures, but also the responsibilities of contributing to an academic journal through the venerable and, in my opinion, often underrated, institution of The Editorial. Many of you have probably found yourselves routinely skipping over the editorial part of the journals you read because you expect them to be boring and, as obligatory, pro forma introductions to the articles in the current issue, not offering much of interest. As the editors of the European Journal of Women’s Studies, we have made an effort to change this. We wanted our editorials to do some work for our journal: to be a vehicle for expressing our vision as editors on what is going on in the field of gender studies, to address the current dilemmas of doing research in the academy, and to comment on relevant social and political developments. We also wanted the editorials to provide a space for us to give vent to our personal concerns – something one former editor referred to as ‘having a good moan’. In this way, we hoped to provoke our readers into thinking about issues we believed were important and to spark discussion and debate. Writing editorials is like no other kind of writing. It can be spontaneous and relatively painless, yet also harrowing and sometimes even scary. Let me explain what writing an editorial has meant for me. The managing editor would gently remind me that my turn had come. Panic would invariably set in as I never seemed to have a topic ready beforehand. I would spend a few days of mulling and stewing and then – suddenly – there it was: the topic, the idea, the thing I absolutely knew I had to write about. There is nothing like an editorial for being allowed to make a case for something you feel passionate about. No holds barred, no beating around the bush. Strong statements, preferably in the first person, argumentative discourse without footnotes or references, and everything having to be said in 2000 words or less. It can be exhilarating and even liberating to write that way, but also frightening, because there is your most heart-felt rant, out in the world – as the Dutch say, with a bared bum – for people to see, to like, dislike, agree or disagree with, to applaud or attack. What did I feel passionate about in the last decade and a half? In which directions did I hope to see the field of gender studies move? To answer these questions, I reread my editorials – all 21 of them. It was a trip down memory lane. I had forgotten many of the issues that had so angered me in the past (sometimes something as incidental as an art exhibition in Amsterdam or a random comment at a gender studies conference). But many of them, surprisingly, resonated with my present concerns. Rereading my editorial rants, I discovered three issues that continue to bother me: the lack of a transnational 691724 EJW0010.1177/1350506817691724European Journal of Women’s StudiesEditorial research-article2017