“Signs”
Signs have a privileged position in the legal canon – from the advertising sign for the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company to the “Wanted” poster in police stations and “No Trespassing” signs on private land; from the beating of the gavel to the marks of guilt and culpability presented in court rooms and on television sets on a daily basis - law is a discourse and practice which lends itself to signs. In so far as signs are both communicative and performative they mirror the foundational principles of legal theory whilst also lending themselves to sociological, linguistic, cultural and historical analysis.
Our September issue of Public Space “Signs” will explore this rich field of theory and research. Contributors are encouraged to make use of the multi-media facilities of our journal, but of course, purely textual contributions are welcome.
How to submit an article to Public Space
The style guide, author guidelines and instructions for making online submissions to Public Space can be found under the “Homepage>About>Submissions” tab of Public Space:
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/publicspace/about
The first step in submitting an article to Public Space is to register as an author – a link to the registration page is provided at the above site. After filling in your personal details select the ‘register as author’ button.
The next stop is to go back to the homepage and log into your account. You can then go to 'My Journals>Author>Start the Submissions Process' to upload your item. Once uploaded, your item is placed in the submission queue where it is peer reviewed and sub-edited. After this process is complete your item is finally placed in the submission review queue for the author to revise and resubmit if necessary.
For audio or video files the maximum size that can be uploaded per file is 20mb.
If you are interested in how Open Source Journals operate please visit: pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJSinanHour.pdf
Dates for submission
“On Art” submissions close 30 December 2008 for March publication.
“Signs” submissions close 30 June 2009 for September publication.
Contact Us
If you have any questions please contact the Editor, Associate Professor Rocque Reynolds at rocque.reynolds@uts.edu.au or on +61 2 9514 3165.
Welcome
I think Sociology is a lot like how the writer and director of The Incredibles describes cartoons:
In sociology, we often call this the "definition of the situation". It could be extended perhaps to also capture the spirit of what Mills called the "Sociological Imagination". No matter what moniker we give it, it is with this "essence" that I believe sociologists must concern themselves, not as rigid actuaries or impartial "scientists", but rather to approach their task much like the artist--with expression, grace, humility, as well as a good dose of criticism.
When an artist visualizes a painting they are working on, they have in their minds-eye an image of how it will look. Even when the "reality" of what they are actually looking at may simply be a block of stone or a blank canvas and table full of paints to mix. They can shape the creative process, but they do not control it completely. What shape their work will finally achieve is largely due to how they urge their clay, stone, paint or musical notation to find its expression in the face of significant constraints, i.e., time, temperature, temper and even a little bit of luck. Their final product may not look "identical" to what they had in mind, but their ability to "bump it up" can have breathtaking results. Take Michelangelo's masterpiece "Il Davido". Considered virtually perfect by many in the art world, the marble from which this sublime form was born was was rejected as flawed by others:
The gallery that houses this masterpiece is entered through a good sized hallway lined on both sides with the guardians of David--a group of unfinished works called "The Captives", aptly named because they look like bodies frozen in the cold hard marble yearning to break out. Michelangelo abandoned them because they were too far from his vision. However, when I visited the museum, I was really taken by these figures--I could see on the one hand how they were not "perfect", but there was something quite spectacular in their imperfection. It all boiled down to a matter of interpretation and vision.
Sociologists face the same dilemma. I think we have a great chance to work with diverse communities to address important social problems. We must remain aware, however, that our goal is not to "reproduce reality" or impose solutions on communities that are external and coercive of their needs. Our job is to use all of the tools in our kit to "bump it up" and encourage individuals to appreciate the beauty of community involvement and the satisfaction of (cultural) self-determination.
The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up.Good research and teaching by sociologists should likewise attempt to find the essence of a statement and remove everything else. Of course I am not naive enough to think that "essence"="TRUTH", or that all of the external forces and pressures individuals confront, especially in marginalized communities, can somehow be magically removed or held constant. I consider what Bird calls essence more a reflection of the process of sense making in which people engage everyday in order to bring some modicum of rationality to a seemingly hyper-irrational set of social contexts and interactions.
In sociology, we often call this the "definition of the situation". It could be extended perhaps to also capture the spirit of what Mills called the "Sociological Imagination". No matter what moniker we give it, it is with this "essence" that I believe sociologists must concern themselves, not as rigid actuaries or impartial "scientists", but rather to approach their task much like the artist--with expression, grace, humility, as well as a good dose of criticism.
When an artist visualizes a painting they are working on, they have in their minds-eye an image of how it will look. Even when the "reality" of what they are actually looking at may simply be a block of stone or a blank canvas and table full of paints to mix. They can shape the creative process, but they do not control it completely. What shape their work will finally achieve is largely due to how they urge their clay, stone, paint or musical notation to find its expression in the face of significant constraints, i.e., time, temperature, temper and even a little bit of luck. Their final product may not look "identical" to what they had in mind, but their ability to "bump it up" can have breathtaking results. Take Michelangelo's masterpiece "Il Davido". Considered virtually perfect by many in the art world, the marble from which this sublime form was born was was rejected as flawed by others:
Michelangelo took a rejected piece of marble that had numerous veins running through it and carved it into this Goliath-sized sculpture that was originally commissioned by Opera del Duomo
Michelangelo was young when he completed The David, yet you can see his talent and genius in this sculpture. He was 25 years old when he began the statue in 1501. No other sculptor wanted this piece of marble because it could be prone to shatter, but Michelangelo created a masterpiece with it...
The gallery that houses this masterpiece is entered through a good sized hallway lined on both sides with the guardians of David--a group of unfinished works called "The Captives", aptly named because they look like bodies frozen in the cold hard marble yearning to break out. Michelangelo abandoned them because they were too far from his vision. However, when I visited the museum, I was really taken by these figures--I could see on the one hand how they were not "perfect", but there was something quite spectacular in their imperfection. It all boiled down to a matter of interpretation and vision.
Sociologists face the same dilemma. I think we have a great chance to work with diverse communities to address important social problems. We must remain aware, however, that our goal is not to "reproduce reality" or impose solutions on communities that are external and coercive of their needs. Our job is to use all of the tools in our kit to "bump it up" and encourage individuals to appreciate the beauty of community involvement and the satisfaction of (cultural) self-determination.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
CFP Communications Review
REM Section: Call for Papers: "CALL FOR PAPERS
The Communication Review
The Communication Review solicits papers in the interdisciplinary field of media studies. We are interested in papers discussing any aspect of media: media history, globalization of media, media institutions, media analysis, media criticism, media policy, media economics. We also invite essays about the nature of media studies as an emergent, interdisciplinary field.
Please direct papers to Professor Andrea L. Press and Professor Bruce A. Williams, Editors, Media Studies Program, University of Virginia
E-mail: alp5n@virginia.edu , baw5n@b.mail.virginia.edu
For more information about the journal and submission guidelines, please see the journal’s website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10714421.asp"
The Communication Review
The Communication Review solicits papers in the interdisciplinary field of media studies. We are interested in papers discussing any aspect of media: media history, globalization of media, media institutions, media analysis, media criticism, media policy, media economics. We also invite essays about the nature of media studies as an emergent, interdisciplinary field.
Please direct papers to Professor Andrea L. Press and Professor Bruce A. Williams, Editors, Media Studies Program, University of Virginia
E-mail: alp5n@virginia.edu , baw5n@b.mail.virginia.edu
For more information about the journal and submission guidelines, please see the journal’s website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10714421.asp"
Humanity and Society
REM Section: Call for Papers: "CALL FOR PAPERS
Humanity and Society
The official journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Humanity & Society was first published in 1977 and has been published quarterly since 1978. Humanity & Society is a peer-reviewed journal with abstracts of published articles appearing in Sociological Abstracts.
Humanity & Society publishes articles on a wide variety of topics: studies of inequality (class, race, and/or gender); war, peace, and international relations; aging and gerontology, family, gender and sexuality; health and mental health; social theory; sociology of knowledge and science, and linguistics; social psychology, teaching and sociology practice; social change, humanism and human rights; crime and deviance; ethnic and intergroup relations, and others. Articles may be theoretical and/or speculative, critical essays, or analysis of data utilizing various qualitative and quantitative research strategies. Theoretical orientations may be eclectic, Marxist, feminist, critical theory, symbolic interactionism, humanistic sociology - i.e., contributing to a more humane and egalitarian society.
Submissions should be sent to:
Ann Goetting, Editor, Humanity & Society, Department of Sociology, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd., Bowling Green, KY 42101-1057 or humanityandsociety@wku.edu
Additional information, including guidelines for contributors, is available by following the Humanity & Society link at www.humanistsociology.org"
Humanity and Society
The official journal of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Humanity & Society was first published in 1977 and has been published quarterly since 1978. Humanity & Society is a peer-reviewed journal with abstracts of published articles appearing in Sociological Abstracts.
Humanity & Society publishes articles on a wide variety of topics: studies of inequality (class, race, and/or gender); war, peace, and international relations; aging and gerontology, family, gender and sexuality; health and mental health; social theory; sociology of knowledge and science, and linguistics; social psychology, teaching and sociology practice; social change, humanism and human rights; crime and deviance; ethnic and intergroup relations, and others. Articles may be theoretical and/or speculative, critical essays, or analysis of data utilizing various qualitative and quantitative research strategies. Theoretical orientations may be eclectic, Marxist, feminist, critical theory, symbolic interactionism, humanistic sociology - i.e., contributing to a more humane and egalitarian society.
Submissions should be sent to:
Ann Goetting, Editor, Humanity & Society, Department of Sociology, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd., Bowling Green, KY 42101-1057 or humanityandsociety@wku.edu
Additional information, including guidelines for contributors, is available by following the Humanity & Society link at www.humanistsociology.org"
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
REM Section: Call for Papers: "Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
The editors invite submissions of papers on the following themes. Please see the journal website at www.raceethnicity.org for further information about the journal and for guidelines to assist you in preparing and submitting your paper for review.
Human Rights, Social Justice, and the Impact of Race
Scheduled for Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2010)
Submissions due May 16, 2009
Race and ethnicity are all too often implicated in the leading human rights and social justice issues in the world today. Does the notion of human rights have the power to embrace and unify people across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, wealth, and nationality in a way that more context-specific terms like racial justice and civil rights do not? What are the seeds of a viable global human rights movement and in what institutions, structures, and places, if anywhere, have such seeds been planted? At a time when social justice issues are not addressed unless they are made subjects of documentaries or receive celebrity endorsement, how are racial injustices spotlighted and by whom? What avenues exist or have the potential to address human rights issues?"
The editors invite submissions of papers on the following themes. Please see the journal website at www.raceethnicity.org for further information about the journal and for guidelines to assist you in preparing and submitting your paper for review.
Human Rights, Social Justice, and the Impact of Race
Scheduled for Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2010)
Submissions due May 16, 2009
Race and ethnicity are all too often implicated in the leading human rights and social justice issues in the world today. Does the notion of human rights have the power to embrace and unify people across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, wealth, and nationality in a way that more context-specific terms like racial justice and civil rights do not? What are the seeds of a viable global human rights movement and in what institutions, structures, and places, if anywhere, have such seeds been planted? At a time when social justice issues are not addressed unless they are made subjects of documentaries or receive celebrity endorsement, how are racial injustices spotlighted and by whom? What avenues exist or have the potential to address human rights issues?"
Intersections of Race and Gender
REM Section: Call for Papers: "Intersections of Race and Gender
Scheduled for Vol. 4, No. 1 (Autumn 2010)
Submissions due September 2009
What is the relationship between gender and racial discrimination? Is gender discrimination likely to be most severe in places where racial discrimination is also severe, or are the two largely independent phenomena? Why is that the case? How do race and gender intersect with each other to mediate access to social opportunity? By what means does the intersection of 'women' and racial/ethnic 'other' as identities so often result in the creation of a subclass considered expendable and exploited? More generally, what are the consequences of discriminatory behaviors, institutions and structures acting at the intersection of race and gender? What can be done? How might intersections or race and gender be celebrated?"
Scheduled for Vol. 4, No. 1 (Autumn 2010)
Submissions due September 2009
What is the relationship between gender and racial discrimination? Is gender discrimination likely to be most severe in places where racial discrimination is also severe, or are the two largely independent phenomena? Why is that the case? How do race and gender intersect with each other to mediate access to social opportunity? By what means does the intersection of 'women' and racial/ethnic 'other' as identities so often result in the creation of a subclass considered expendable and exploited? More generally, what are the consequences of discriminatory behaviors, institutions and structures acting at the intersection of race and gender? What can be done? How might intersections or race and gender be celebrated?"
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
OKCIR and Human Architecture: CFP Sociological Imagination
Facebook | OKCIR and Human Architecture NEWS: "CALL FOR PAPERS
HUMAN ARCHITECTURE:
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Regular Issue, Volume VII, 2009
DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2009
II. REGULAR ISSUE THEME:
Scholarships of Learning and Teaching of the Sociological Imagination
Human Architecture has a continuing commitment to publishing outstanding undergraduate and graduate student and faculty papers advancing scholarships of learning and teaching of the sociological imagination and the sociology of self-knowledge.
The sociological imagination, according to C. Wright Mills, is a quality of mind that enables its holder to relate his or her own and others’ personal troubles to the ever larger public issues facing society and humanity as a whole. It is the ability to relate reflections on the here-and-now dynamics of one’s everyday life and personal troubles to the larger social issues of the prevalent society, of the times, and in the context of ever wider world-historical landscapes.
As noted in the founding statement of the journal, “Human Architecture provides a forum for the exploration of personal self-knowledges within a re-imagined sociological framework. It seeks to creatively institutionalize new conceptual and curricular structures of knowledge whereby critical study of one’s selves within an increasingly world-historical framework is given scholarly and pedagogical legitimacy. The journal is a public forum for those who seek to radically understand and, if need be, change their world-historically constituted selves. It is a research and educational microcosm for fostering de-alienated and globally concerned, self-determining human realities.”
The editor invites contributions that make serious and innovative efforts at developing the author’s sociological imagination in dialogue with scholarly sources, relevant theoretical frameworks and concepts, and various other texts such as films and works of art. Solicited also are papers by teaching faculty who self-reflectively explore their strategies for the cultivation of sociological imaginations among their students (and in themselves) regardless of the disciplinary field in which courses are taught. Papers may include as appendices exemplary syllabi used, but these only as an aid to the narrative explorations and presentations of the pedagogical approaches invented and used by faculty in the course of their teaching career. Faculty-student co-authored papers will also be especially welcomed.
All submissions should be sent as email attachments to the journal’s editor mohammad.tamdgidi@umb.edu. Contributors whose papers are selected and published will receive a complimentary hard copy of the journal upon publication. Authors are solely responsible for obtaining by the time of submission copyright permissions for the quotes, figures, or any other material borrowed from other sources; authors submitting to the journal will be assumed to have obtained such copyright permissions and can furnish them upon request.
Please submit papers only electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment (RTF format) set in Times 12 font. Include in the same file a title page stating full institutional affiliation(s), a specializations/publications bio of about 50-100 words in length, and email, academic, and (if available) web addresses. Papers should be accompanied, in the same file and after the title page, by an abstract of about 100-200 words in length. Please double-space all text except for the abstract, foot/endnotes, bibliography, and any quotations blocks—which should be single-spaced. There is no need to send blinded versions of the file. If there are figures, please provide them as part of the Word document and separately, as a jpeg or standard graphic file (Tiff or eps, for instance) set at medium resolution.
Student papers previously published in Human Architecture are regularly used as required or recommended readings in course instruction. For examples of student and faculty-student co-authored papers published in earlier issues of Human Architecture please visit the website of the journal (at http://www.okcir.com) or consult the Sociological Abstracts, SocINDEX with Full-Text, or ProQuest's Social Science Journals full-text database for more systematic search of the journal's contents."
HUMAN ARCHITECTURE:
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Regular Issue, Volume VII, 2009
DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2009
II. REGULAR ISSUE THEME:
Scholarships of Learning and Teaching of the Sociological Imagination
Human Architecture has a continuing commitment to publishing outstanding undergraduate and graduate student and faculty papers advancing scholarships of learning and teaching of the sociological imagination and the sociology of self-knowledge.
The sociological imagination, according to C. Wright Mills, is a quality of mind that enables its holder to relate his or her own and others’ personal troubles to the ever larger public issues facing society and humanity as a whole. It is the ability to relate reflections on the here-and-now dynamics of one’s everyday life and personal troubles to the larger social issues of the prevalent society, of the times, and in the context of ever wider world-historical landscapes.
As noted in the founding statement of the journal, “Human Architecture provides a forum for the exploration of personal self-knowledges within a re-imagined sociological framework. It seeks to creatively institutionalize new conceptual and curricular structures of knowledge whereby critical study of one’s selves within an increasingly world-historical framework is given scholarly and pedagogical legitimacy. The journal is a public forum for those who seek to radically understand and, if need be, change their world-historically constituted selves. It is a research and educational microcosm for fostering de-alienated and globally concerned, self-determining human realities.”
The editor invites contributions that make serious and innovative efforts at developing the author’s sociological imagination in dialogue with scholarly sources, relevant theoretical frameworks and concepts, and various other texts such as films and works of art. Solicited also are papers by teaching faculty who self-reflectively explore their strategies for the cultivation of sociological imaginations among their students (and in themselves) regardless of the disciplinary field in which courses are taught. Papers may include as appendices exemplary syllabi used, but these only as an aid to the narrative explorations and presentations of the pedagogical approaches invented and used by faculty in the course of their teaching career. Faculty-student co-authored papers will also be especially welcomed.
All submissions should be sent as email attachments to the journal’s editor mohammad.tamdgidi@umb.edu. Contributors whose papers are selected and published will receive a complimentary hard copy of the journal upon publication. Authors are solely responsible for obtaining by the time of submission copyright permissions for the quotes, figures, or any other material borrowed from other sources; authors submitting to the journal will be assumed to have obtained such copyright permissions and can furnish them upon request.
Please submit papers only electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment (RTF format) set in Times 12 font. Include in the same file a title page stating full institutional affiliation(s), a specializations/publications bio of about 50-100 words in length, and email, academic, and (if available) web addresses. Papers should be accompanied, in the same file and after the title page, by an abstract of about 100-200 words in length. Please double-space all text except for the abstract, foot/endnotes, bibliography, and any quotations blocks—which should be single-spaced. There is no need to send blinded versions of the file. If there are figures, please provide them as part of the Word document and separately, as a jpeg or standard graphic file (Tiff or eps, for instance) set at medium resolution.
Student papers previously published in Human Architecture are regularly used as required or recommended readings in course instruction. For examples of student and faculty-student co-authored papers published in earlier issues of Human Architecture please visit the website of the journal (at http://www.okcir.com) or consult the Sociological Abstracts, SocINDEX with Full-Text, or ProQuest's Social Science Journals full-text database for more systematic search of the journal's contents."
Social Thought and Research: Crime, Punishment and Inequality
Facebook | Social Thought and Research: Submit An Article: "Call For Papers
Social Thought and Research addresses current issues in sociological studies. We have published papers in a variety of sociological areas, including critical theory, authoritarianism, social movements, culture, sexuality, gender, globalization, and feminist cross-cultural research. The journal has been privileged to include a variety of social thinkers: Robert Connell, Steven Seidman, Douglas Kellner, George Ritzer, Robert Antonio, Carol A.B. Warren, Herbert Marcuse, George Herbert Mead, David Norman Smith, D. Stanley Eitzen, Joshua Gamson, Kathleen Blee, Rhacel Parenas, Saskia Sassen, and Cynthia Enloe, among others.
Students and faculty from departments outside the discipline of sociology (such as Women’s Studies, Political Science, Anthropology, History, Latin American Studies, African-American Studies, American Studies, etc.) are also encouraged to submit articles.
For our 2008-2009 publication, in connection with Bruce Western’s 2008 Carroll Clark Lectureship at the University of Kansas (titled “Punishment and Inequality in America”), we invite papers that explore the themes of crime, punishment, and inequality. We also invite submissions that focus on the relationship between economic inequality and incarceration as well as the effects of incarceration on families and communities.
Submissions are due May 1, 2009 and should include the following:
* Cover letter and author contact information, including a current e-mail address.
* A cover page, including the title of your submission and a 200 word abstract.
* One (1) hard copy of your submission with your identifying information.
* One (1) hard copy of your submission with no identifying information.
* One (1) electronic version of your submission (preferably on a CD) . Must be Microsoft compatible.
* A $10.00 submission fee (waived for papers authored solely by graduate students).
For detailed information on manuscript preparation, please visit our page on submitting an article.
Send To:
Social Thought and Research
Department of Sociology
716 Fraser Hall
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-2172
E-mail: starjournal@ku.edu"
Social Thought and Research addresses current issues in sociological studies. We have published papers in a variety of sociological areas, including critical theory, authoritarianism, social movements, culture, sexuality, gender, globalization, and feminist cross-cultural research. The journal has been privileged to include a variety of social thinkers: Robert Connell, Steven Seidman, Douglas Kellner, George Ritzer, Robert Antonio, Carol A.B. Warren, Herbert Marcuse, George Herbert Mead, David Norman Smith, D. Stanley Eitzen, Joshua Gamson, Kathleen Blee, Rhacel Parenas, Saskia Sassen, and Cynthia Enloe, among others.
Students and faculty from departments outside the discipline of sociology (such as Women’s Studies, Political Science, Anthropology, History, Latin American Studies, African-American Studies, American Studies, etc.) are also encouraged to submit articles.
For our 2008-2009 publication, in connection with Bruce Western’s 2008 Carroll Clark Lectureship at the University of Kansas (titled “Punishment and Inequality in America”), we invite papers that explore the themes of crime, punishment, and inequality. We also invite submissions that focus on the relationship between economic inequality and incarceration as well as the effects of incarceration on families and communities.
Submissions are due May 1, 2009 and should include the following:
* Cover letter and author contact information, including a current e-mail address.
* A cover page, including the title of your submission and a 200 word abstract.
* One (1) hard copy of your submission with your identifying information.
* One (1) hard copy of your submission with no identifying information.
* One (1) electronic version of your submission (preferably on a CD) . Must be Microsoft compatible.
* A $10.00 submission fee (waived for papers authored solely by graduate students).
For detailed information on manuscript preparation, please visit our page on submitting an article.
Send To:
Social Thought and Research
Department of Sociology
716 Fraser Hall
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-2172
E-mail: starjournal@ku.edu"
Sociology Special Issue 2010: Sexualities
Sociology Special Issue 2010: Sexualities: "Sociology Special Issue 2010: Sexualities
Call for Papers
Sexualities
Over the last 40 years there have been enormous transformations in the theorisation of sexuality, which have had significant implications not just for how we think about sexuality, but also for social and cultural theory more broadly. Sexuality is now central to much groundbreaking work by sociologists, and to contemporary public interest and policy making. This Special Issue considers the innovative contribution sociology has made to understandings of sexuality in the past, and to consider new directions for contemporary times.
An important challenge for future work is to elaborate frameworks that allow more complex analyses of the relationship between sexuality and its intersections with other theoretical traditions, social theory, social structures and broader social inequalities. This is the focus of this Special Issue. Key questions to be explored include: How does sexuality intertwine with other social divisions? What do different methodological and theoretical uses of intersectionality contribute to our understandings of sexualities? In our attempt to offer critical insights to these and related questions, we are casting a wide conceptual net in the consideration of sexuality in its broadest sense.
This Special Issue aims to theorise and develop new understandings of sexuality and intersectionality. In an attempt to critically examine the significance of theorising intersectionality in addressing contemporary sexualities, we aim to bring together a variety of contributions: from sociology and related disciplines, from different theoretical and methodological traditions (including quantitative and mixed methods, as well as qualitative), from contributors at different career stages, from those outside of the academy and from those based outside as well as in the UK.
Potential Contributions might include:
· Sexuality and intersectionality- key ideas and theoretical traditions
· Sexuality, 'race', ethnicity, gender, class, disability and embodiment
· Sexuality, place and space
· Historical and contemporary innovations in methods and theory
· Sexuality, age and generation
· Comparative approaches to sexuality
· Material realities of sexualities
· Sexuality and social policy concerns, agendas and legislation
· Sexuality and the media
This special issue will be edited by Mark Casey, Diane Richardson, and Yvette Taylor (Newcastle University) and Sally Hines (University of Leeds). We welcome articles of up to 7,000 words (including references) and also shorter review articles, commentaries and book reviews.
Submissions will be accepted via the journal's Manuscript Central site. Full submission instructions are available on the site on the 'Instructions and Forms page'. Please read these before submitting your manuscript. Deadline for final submissions: 31st July 2009. Queries to Mark Casey: M.E.Casey@ncl.ac.uk This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it"
Call for Papers
Sexualities
Over the last 40 years there have been enormous transformations in the theorisation of sexuality, which have had significant implications not just for how we think about sexuality, but also for social and cultural theory more broadly. Sexuality is now central to much groundbreaking work by sociologists, and to contemporary public interest and policy making. This Special Issue considers the innovative contribution sociology has made to understandings of sexuality in the past, and to consider new directions for contemporary times.
An important challenge for future work is to elaborate frameworks that allow more complex analyses of the relationship between sexuality and its intersections with other theoretical traditions, social theory, social structures and broader social inequalities. This is the focus of this Special Issue. Key questions to be explored include: How does sexuality intertwine with other social divisions? What do different methodological and theoretical uses of intersectionality contribute to our understandings of sexualities? In our attempt to offer critical insights to these and related questions, we are casting a wide conceptual net in the consideration of sexuality in its broadest sense.
This Special Issue aims to theorise and develop new understandings of sexuality and intersectionality. In an attempt to critically examine the significance of theorising intersectionality in addressing contemporary sexualities, we aim to bring together a variety of contributions: from sociology and related disciplines, from different theoretical and methodological traditions (including quantitative and mixed methods, as well as qualitative), from contributors at different career stages, from those outside of the academy and from those based outside as well as in the UK.
Potential Contributions might include:
· Sexuality and intersectionality- key ideas and theoretical traditions
· Sexuality, 'race', ethnicity, gender, class, disability and embodiment
· Sexuality, place and space
· Historical and contemporary innovations in methods and theory
· Sexuality, age and generation
· Comparative approaches to sexuality
· Material realities of sexualities
· Sexuality and social policy concerns, agendas and legislation
· Sexuality and the media
This special issue will be edited by Mark Casey, Diane Richardson, and Yvette Taylor (Newcastle University) and Sally Hines (University of Leeds). We welcome articles of up to 7,000 words (including references) and also shorter review articles, commentaries and book reviews.
Submissions will be accepted via the journal's Manuscript Central site. Full submission instructions are available on the site on the 'Instructions and Forms page'. Please read these before submitting your manuscript. Deadline for final submissions: 31st July 2009. Queries to Mark Casey: M.E.Casey@ncl.ac.uk This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it"
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Special Issue Image [&] Narrative: Imagining the Author: The Development of Particularity (Deadline: June 1st, 2009) | cfp.english.upenn.edu
Special Issue Image [&] Narrative: Imagining the Author: The Development of Particularity (Deadline: June 1st, 2009) | cfp.english.upenn.edu: "pecial Issue Image [&] Narrative: Imagining the Author: The Development of Particularity (Deadline: June 1st, 2009)
full name / name of organization:
Christian Chelebourg / Image [&] Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
contact email:
christian.chelebourg@wanadoo.fr
cfp categories:
cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches
film_and_television
general_announcements
journals_and_collections_of_essays
popular_culture
theory
In his analysis of the history of mathematics, Gaston Bachelard calls for a reversal of perspectives on the complexity of reasoning: “[…] the simple is in fact always simplified: it can only be thought of correctly when appearing to be the product of a process of simplification.” (L’Épistémologie non cartésienne.) Likewise, in literature and in the visual arts, the particularity of authors, what one has come to call their “little music”, what makes them irreducible to others, is not only the fruit of their genius, but also a meticulous construction, the product of a particularising process, constructions based on what Claude Lévi-Strauss designates as signifying structural choices (La Voie des masques). The particular is thus actually particularised. Its elaboration, inherent to the poetics of the subject, is effectuated at the level of the imagination, or as Jean Burgos explains, in a matrix where the division between the unconscious and the conscious has neither value, nor sense. (Pour une poétique de l’imaginaire).
In this process the author appropriates the anthropological image/imagination as his own, to put it in the service of what Clement Rosset calls his idiocy (in the etymological sense of the word, in Le Réel – Traité de l’ idiotie). It is in this way that symbols and myths, which tend to be seen as universals, become deformed, intertwined, reconfigured in order to produce particular idiomyths, turning language into a “strange language” (Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve), whose idiolectical components take over the usual meanings. This tendency can be observed in all linguistic or graphical codes, in particular in generic codes or cinematographic ones, which are willingly overturned in favour expressing one’s creative imagination.
In the preface to the “Ne Varietur” edition of his complete works, Victor Hugo asserted: “Everyone who writes, writes just one book: that book is themselves.” The singularising work of artists hence clearly participates in the narcissistic construction of their identities. In this way, it becomes important to attend to of all dimensions of the work where the authors present themselves, to all occasions in which they let themselves be heard or in which they affirm their authority. From this point of view, the critical discourse which spreads over interviews, letters, essays and which seems to be merely an aside to the fiction, acquires an interest which transcends the simple confrontation of displayed artistic principles and artistic practices. These findings can unlock the articulation of image in writing (literary, filmic, graphic), revealing the intimate stakes and profound intentions that mould it.
This issue of Image [&] Narrative will illustrate some of the procedures in which authors in literature, painting, cinema and graphic novels build their particularity and construe a personal image. We encourage contributions which offer a theoretical in-depth investigation of the phenomenon or which confront the visual dimensions of the artwork.
The issue is due for July 2009.
See: http://www.imageandnarrative.be/"
full name / name of organization:
Christian Chelebourg / Image [&] Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
contact email:
christian.chelebourg@wanadoo.fr
cfp categories:
cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches
film_and_television
general_announcements
journals_and_collections_of_essays
popular_culture
theory
In his analysis of the history of mathematics, Gaston Bachelard calls for a reversal of perspectives on the complexity of reasoning: “[…] the simple is in fact always simplified: it can only be thought of correctly when appearing to be the product of a process of simplification.” (L’Épistémologie non cartésienne.) Likewise, in literature and in the visual arts, the particularity of authors, what one has come to call their “little music”, what makes them irreducible to others, is not only the fruit of their genius, but also a meticulous construction, the product of a particularising process, constructions based on what Claude Lévi-Strauss designates as signifying structural choices (La Voie des masques). The particular is thus actually particularised. Its elaboration, inherent to the poetics of the subject, is effectuated at the level of the imagination, or as Jean Burgos explains, in a matrix where the division between the unconscious and the conscious has neither value, nor sense. (Pour une poétique de l’imaginaire).
In this process the author appropriates the anthropological image/imagination as his own, to put it in the service of what Clement Rosset calls his idiocy (in the etymological sense of the word, in Le Réel – Traité de l’ idiotie). It is in this way that symbols and myths, which tend to be seen as universals, become deformed, intertwined, reconfigured in order to produce particular idiomyths, turning language into a “strange language” (Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve), whose idiolectical components take over the usual meanings. This tendency can be observed in all linguistic or graphical codes, in particular in generic codes or cinematographic ones, which are willingly overturned in favour expressing one’s creative imagination.
In the preface to the “Ne Varietur” edition of his complete works, Victor Hugo asserted: “Everyone who writes, writes just one book: that book is themselves.” The singularising work of artists hence clearly participates in the narcissistic construction of their identities. In this way, it becomes important to attend to of all dimensions of the work where the authors present themselves, to all occasions in which they let themselves be heard or in which they affirm their authority. From this point of view, the critical discourse which spreads over interviews, letters, essays and which seems to be merely an aside to the fiction, acquires an interest which transcends the simple confrontation of displayed artistic principles and artistic practices. These findings can unlock the articulation of image in writing (literary, filmic, graphic), revealing the intimate stakes and profound intentions that mould it.
This issue of Image [&] Narrative will illustrate some of the procedures in which authors in literature, painting, cinema and graphic novels build their particularity and construe a personal image. We encourage contributions which offer a theoretical in-depth investigation of the phenomenon or which confront the visual dimensions of the artwork.
The issue is due for July 2009.
See: http://www.imageandnarrative.be/"
Michigan Sociological Review
Michigan Sociological Review (MSR) encourages submissions for its fall 2009 issue. The
MSR is an official, peer-refereed publication of the Michigan Sociological Association. The MSR publishes research articles, essays, research reports, and book reviews. This editorial cycle particularly welcomes quality manuscripts in all areas of sociology. Submissions will be accepted until May 1, 2009. Send a sanitized manuscript via email attachment in MS Word format (not pdf) along with a brief biographical statement to: verschaj@gvsu.edu. Send disks via postal mail to: Joseph Verschaeve, Editor, Michigan Sociological Review, Department of Sociology,
Grand Valley State University, 2169 AuSable Hall, Allendale, MI 49401.
MSR is an official, peer-refereed publication of the Michigan Sociological Association. The MSR publishes research articles, essays, research reports, and book reviews. This editorial cycle particularly welcomes quality manuscripts in all areas of sociology. Submissions will be accepted until May 1, 2009. Send a sanitized manuscript via email attachment in MS Word format (not pdf) along with a brief biographical statement to: verschaj@gvsu.edu. Send disks via postal mail to: Joseph Verschaeve, Editor, Michigan Sociological Review, Department of Sociology,
Grand Valley State University, 2169 AuSable Hall, Allendale, MI 49401.
Globalizations - Gender, Governance and Power: Finding the Global at the Local Level - Sophia
Globalizations - Gender, Governance and Power: Finding the Global at the Local Level - Sophia: "Globalizations - Gender, Governance and Power: Finding the Global at the Local Level
Deadline - 01.04.2009
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for inclusion in a special issue of the respected scholarly journal Globalizations.Given the inherently interdisciplinary character of feminist research and the multiplicity of methodological and analytical insights this offers, we are confident that this special issue will encourage the exploration and discussion of multiple interpretations and multiple processes that may constitute many possible globalizations’, per the journal’s stated aims.
We encourage submissions that explicitly map the contours of feminist approaches to global governance, which include but are not limited to the study of sex/gender, sexuality, queer theories, masculinities and technologies of the body. Further, we hope to offer the readership of the journal unique insights into very different local contexts in which contemporary policies of global governance are being implemented. Thus we encourage both theoretically- and empirically-driven contributions.
This special issue is inspired by a recent workshop held at the University of Birmingham, entitled ‘Gender, Governance and Power’, which aimed to open channels of communication between academics and policy-makers in an effort to facilitate the formulation of strategic goals and the identification of current and future areas of interest. Particular preference will therefore be given to submissions that address the inter-relationship between global governance and globalization, broadly conceived, and policy-making at the local level.
If you would like to submit a contribution, please send a title and an abstract of 150 words, along with complete contact information, to Laura Shepherd L.J.Shepherd@bham.ac.uk by 1 April 2009. Full manuscripts of no more than 8000 words will need to be prepared and submitted by 1 December 2009.
Further information about the journal can be found on their website at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14747731.asp"
Deadline - 01.04.2009
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for inclusion in a special issue of the respected scholarly journal Globalizations.Given the inherently interdisciplinary character of feminist research and the multiplicity of methodological and analytical insights this offers, we are confident that this special issue will encourage the exploration and discussion of multiple interpretations and multiple processes that may constitute many possible globalizations’, per the journal’s stated aims.
We encourage submissions that explicitly map the contours of feminist approaches to global governance, which include but are not limited to the study of sex/gender, sexuality, queer theories, masculinities and technologies of the body. Further, we hope to offer the readership of the journal unique insights into very different local contexts in which contemporary policies of global governance are being implemented. Thus we encourage both theoretically- and empirically-driven contributions.
This special issue is inspired by a recent workshop held at the University of Birmingham, entitled ‘Gender, Governance and Power’, which aimed to open channels of communication between academics and policy-makers in an effort to facilitate the formulation of strategic goals and the identification of current and future areas of interest. Particular preference will therefore be given to submissions that address the inter-relationship between global governance and globalization, broadly conceived, and policy-making at the local level.
If you would like to submit a contribution, please send a title and an abstract of 150 words, along with complete contact information, to Laura Shepherd L.J.Shepherd@bham.ac.uk by 1 April 2009. Full manuscripts of no more than 8000 words will need to be prepared and submitted by 1 December 2009.
Further information about the journal can be found on their website at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14747731.asp"
Doing Gender: performativities and queer approaches - Sophia
Doing Gender: performativities and queer approaches - Sophia: "Doing Gender: performativities and queer approaches
Deadline - 01.05.2009
Ex Aequo nr. 20 Journal of the Portuguese Association of Women¹s Studies - Edited by Conceição Nogueira, University of Minho and João Manuel de Oliveira, CIS/ISCTE
The shift of paradigm in gender, feminist and women¹s studies introduced by the seminal work of Judith Butler Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity² has fostered an impressive amount of research which has re-linked and re-thought the connection between gender, identity and desire. With this special issue we aim at bringing those debates into the Portuguese scene, including the discussions related to gender performativity and queer theories.
We seek contributions (empirical or theoretical) that address the following subjects: the relation between performativities and subjectivities, encounters between feminist theories and queer approaches, discursive studies about the homophobia and LGBT issues, analysis of relationships between gender performance and
performativity, the place of queer in feminism and LGBT activism, feminist critiques of science etc.
Submissions in Portuguese, French, Spanish or English should be sent to: apem@netcabo.pt
The norms of publication are available at: www.apem-estudos.org/apresentacao.htm#guidelines"
Deadline - 01.05.2009
Ex Aequo nr. 20 Journal of the Portuguese Association of Women¹s Studies - Edited by Conceição Nogueira, University of Minho and João Manuel de Oliveira, CIS/ISCTE
The shift of paradigm in gender, feminist and women¹s studies introduced by the seminal work of Judith Butler Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity² has fostered an impressive amount of research which has re-linked and re-thought the connection between gender, identity and desire. With this special issue we aim at bringing those debates into the Portuguese scene, including the discussions related to gender performativity and queer theories.
We seek contributions (empirical or theoretical) that address the following subjects: the relation between performativities and subjectivities, encounters between feminist theories and queer approaches, discursive studies about the homophobia and LGBT issues, analysis of relationships between gender performance and
performativity, the place of queer in feminism and LGBT activism, feminist critiques of science etc.
Submissions in Portuguese, French, Spanish or English should be sent to: apem@netcabo.pt
The norms of publication are available at: www.apem-estudos.org/apresentacao.htm#guidelines"
SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies
SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies: "SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Queer Studies
Publication Deadline: 2009-06-01
Date Submitted: 2009-02-18
Announcement ID: 167042
SUNY Press is proud to announce our 2009 competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of queer studies. We welcome nonfiction manuscripts that exemplify cutting-edge scholarship that engages issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or other non-heteronormative experience, whether the area of focus is historical or contemporary. The competition is open to scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds, but we especially encourage work that speaks effectively across disciplines, and projects that offer new perspectives on concerns central to the field of queer studies. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Activism and resistance
Religion
Queer histories and subcultures
Intersectionality
Queer assimilation
Experiences of queer people of color
Health and sexuality
Queer feminisms
Global and transnational queer issues
Sexuality and the law
Institutions and public policies
Queer economics
Sex work
Queer families
Passing and issues of performance
Queer youth and queer aging
Affect, desire and embodiment
Gender and queer sexuality
Transgender studies
Gender and violence
Heterosexism and homophobia
Queerness and disability
Queer pedagogy
Cultural production (media, film, music, literature)
If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a publication contract with SUNY Press and a $3,000 advance. Runners up may also be considered for publication with SUNY Press. All submissions must be postmarked between April 1 and June 1, 2009, and should include the following materials:
--Cover letter
--C.V.
--Proposal, including a 4-5 page overview of the scope of the project and analysis of competing titles (competing titles are books already published that would compete for individual sales and course adoptions with your book)
--Complete manuscript, at least 150 double spaced pages, unbound, 12 pt. Courier font
Please mention the competition in your cover letter, and also indicate if any material from the manuscript has been previously published. All submissions must be exclusive submissions to SUNY Press for the duration of the contest, and the winner will be announced by October 1, 2009.
Larin McLaughlin
Acquisitions Editor
SUNY Press
194 Washington Ave., Ste. 305
Albany, NY 12210
Email: larin.mclaughlin@sunypress.edu
Visit the website at http://www.sunypress.edu/QS.asp"
Publication Deadline: 2009-06-01
Date Submitted: 2009-02-18
Announcement ID: 167042
SUNY Press is proud to announce our 2009 competition for the best single-authored dissertation or first book manuscript in the field of queer studies. We welcome nonfiction manuscripts that exemplify cutting-edge scholarship that engages issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or other non-heteronormative experience, whether the area of focus is historical or contemporary. The competition is open to scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds, but we especially encourage work that speaks effectively across disciplines, and projects that offer new perspectives on concerns central to the field of queer studies. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Activism and resistance
Religion
Queer histories and subcultures
Intersectionality
Queer assimilation
Experiences of queer people of color
Health and sexuality
Queer feminisms
Global and transnational queer issues
Sexuality and the law
Institutions and public policies
Queer economics
Sex work
Queer families
Passing and issues of performance
Queer youth and queer aging
Affect, desire and embodiment
Gender and queer sexuality
Transgender studies
Gender and violence
Heterosexism and homophobia
Queerness and disability
Queer pedagogy
Cultural production (media, film, music, literature)
If a winner of the competition is selected, he or she will receive a publication contract with SUNY Press and a $3,000 advance. Runners up may also be considered for publication with SUNY Press. All submissions must be postmarked between April 1 and June 1, 2009, and should include the following materials:
--Cover letter
--C.V.
--Proposal, including a 4-5 page overview of the scope of the project and analysis of competing titles (competing titles are books already published that would compete for individual sales and course adoptions with your book)
--Complete manuscript, at least 150 double spaced pages, unbound, 12 pt. Courier font
Please mention the competition in your cover letter, and also indicate if any material from the manuscript has been previously published. All submissions must be exclusive submissions to SUNY Press for the duration of the contest, and the winner will be announced by October 1, 2009.
Larin McLaughlin
Acquisitions Editor
SUNY Press
194 Washington Ave., Ste. 305
Albany, NY 12210
Email: larin.mclaughlin@sunypress.edu
Visit the website at http://www.sunypress.edu/QS.asp"
NeoAmericanist CFP - Sex and Sexual Identity in Contemporary America
NeoAmericanist CFP - Sex and Sexual Identity in Contemporary America: "This call for proposals seeks to interrogate the issues of sex and sexual identity in the contemporary United States. We are interested in hearing from scholars, public intellectuals, journalists, community activists, health-care workers and independent researchers with subject matter expertise or knowledge about human sexuality, sexual acts and especially LGBTQ sexual identities. We are interested in receiving proposals or complete works in a variety of mediums including (but not limited to) essays, photography, film documentaries, music, theoretical discussions, empirical research papers, academic publications etc. All works should address and explore the complex socio-cultural issue of human sexuality within contemporary America. Submissions should in some way interrogate sexuality, desire, and physical bodies within the context of American cultural frameworks, while also being sensitive to the ways in which constructions of sexuality are linked to the movement of ideas, capital, local, regional, and national systems of inclusion and exclusion. We especially encourage work that critically engage articulations of race, class, sexuality, gender, religion, and particularly - citizenship. Lastly, we strongly urge those working on original, intellectually rigorous and thought-provoking material on or done within historically marginalized or underrepresented constituencies (e.g. ethnic minorities, economically disadvantaged, PWA, etc.) to contact us at the email below.
Submissions can be made as traditional papers or alternatively, in either .mp3 or video format (prefaced by a proposal or outline of the work). Methods might utilize 'new' ethnographies, oral history interviews, personal essays, etc. Written documents must be limited to 5,000 words and multimedia formats must be limited to 20 minutes in length and conform in all other respects to scholarly, academic publishing standards while also utilizing correct discipline-specific citation methods.
All submissions accepted under this heading will be included in a forthcoming edition of NeoAmericanist, within a section under this title. Please send your materials, by April 5th, 2009 as email attachments to: mjohnso9@wsu.edu. While email is always preferred, interested submitters may mail materials to: Michael Johnson Jr., Washington State University, Department of American Studies, PO Box 644010, Pullman WA 99164-4010.
Michael Johnson Jr.
2008-2009 Ronald E. McNair Fellow
Department of American Studies
Washington State University
Michael Johnson Jr.
Washington State University
Department of American Studies
PO Box 644010
Pullman WA 99164-4010
Email: mjohnso9@wsu.edu"
Submissions can be made as traditional papers or alternatively, in either .mp3 or video format (prefaced by a proposal or outline of the work). Methods might utilize 'new' ethnographies, oral history interviews, personal essays, etc. Written documents must be limited to 5,000 words and multimedia formats must be limited to 20 minutes in length and conform in all other respects to scholarly, academic publishing standards while also utilizing correct discipline-specific citation methods.
All submissions accepted under this heading will be included in a forthcoming edition of NeoAmericanist, within a section under this title. Please send your materials, by April 5th, 2009 as email attachments to: mjohnso9@wsu.edu. While email is always preferred, interested submitters may mail materials to: Michael Johnson Jr., Washington State University, Department of American Studies, PO Box 644010, Pullman WA 99164-4010.
Michael Johnson Jr.
2008-2009 Ronald E. McNair Fellow
Department of American Studies
Washington State University
Michael Johnson Jr.
Washington State University
Department of American Studies
PO Box 644010
Pullman WA 99164-4010
Email: mjohnso9@wsu.edu"
Special Issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics: New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights
CFP's for Publication: "Special Issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics: New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights
Editors: Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcón, Sharmila Lodhia, and Molly Talcott (Guest Editors)
Abstract Deadline: August 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: August 1st, 2009
Journal URL: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14616742.asp
Theme: International Feminist Journal of Politics seeks manuscripts for a special issue on new directions in feminism and human rights. We invite manuscripts that capture the invocation of human rights strategies and discourses by feminist advocates, activists and grassroots movements for politically radical ends as well as manuscripts that offer new critiques and challenges of human rights practices in struggles for justice. We are especially interested in manuscripts that engage with both new and longstanding conceptions of human rights as individual, imperial and state-centric by foregrounding transnational feminist mobilizations of human rights.
Suggested Topics: Anti-racist human rights struggles * Indigenous women and sovereignty * Global struggles for rights to water, land, and other natural resources * Transnational feminist advocacy * Media and cultural expression * Sexual politics of human rights * “Human rights cities” * Reproductive rights and access to health care * Militarization, violence, and gendered (in)security * Feminist translations of international law into local justice * Prison abolition movements * Feminist democratization and the UN * Queering human rights * Gendering social, economic, and cultural rights *
Guidelines: We invite a range of different formats including academic pieces, testimonials from activists and practitioners, poetry, and film/book reviews. Please see the journal’s Instructions for Contributors for details concerning submissions, preparation of copy, references and style. Full-length critical essays/articles should not exceed 8,000 words. Testimonial accounts, book/film reviews, and other creative submissions, such as poetry, should not exceed 3000 words. See also: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14616742.asp
CFP Address:
CFP E-Mail: ifjp@yorku.ca
Contact:
E-Mail:
Alternate E-Mail: sylvanna@ucr.edu
Telephone:"
Editors: Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcón, Sharmila Lodhia, and Molly Talcott (Guest Editors)
Abstract Deadline: August 1st, 2009
Full Deadline: August 1st, 2009
Journal URL: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14616742.asp
Theme: International Feminist Journal of Politics seeks manuscripts for a special issue on new directions in feminism and human rights. We invite manuscripts that capture the invocation of human rights strategies and discourses by feminist advocates, activists and grassroots movements for politically radical ends as well as manuscripts that offer new critiques and challenges of human rights practices in struggles for justice. We are especially interested in manuscripts that engage with both new and longstanding conceptions of human rights as individual, imperial and state-centric by foregrounding transnational feminist mobilizations of human rights.
Suggested Topics: Anti-racist human rights struggles * Indigenous women and sovereignty * Global struggles for rights to water, land, and other natural resources * Transnational feminist advocacy * Media and cultural expression * Sexual politics of human rights * “Human rights cities” * Reproductive rights and access to health care * Militarization, violence, and gendered (in)security * Feminist translations of international law into local justice * Prison abolition movements * Feminist democratization and the UN * Queering human rights * Gendering social, economic, and cultural rights *
Guidelines: We invite a range of different formats including academic pieces, testimonials from activists and practitioners, poetry, and film/book reviews. Please see the journal’s Instructions for Contributors for details concerning submissions, preparation of copy, references and style. Full-length critical essays/articles should not exceed 8,000 words. Testimonial accounts, book/film reviews, and other creative submissions, such as poetry, should not exceed 3000 words. See also: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14616742.asp
CFP Address:
CFP E-Mail: ifjp@yorku.ca
Contact:
E-Mail:
Alternate E-Mail: sylvanna@ucr.edu
Telephone:"
Sextures - Querying sexual citezenships:difference, social imaginaries and European citezenship - Sophia
Sextures - Querying sexual citezenships:difference, social imaginaries and European citezenship - Sophia: "extures - Querying sexual citezenships:difference, social imaginaries and European citezenship
Deadline - 02.06.2009
'Harbingers of death', 'the shame and ruin of humanity', 'anti-life', 'threat to the survival of the human race', 'moral and physical cripples', and 'vampires sucking the life blood of the nation' are only some of the images of radical alterity invoked and regularly rehearsed by major political figures in post-socialist European
countries when faced with native lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) claims to citizenship. Citizenship, understood here as the practicing of social, cultural, political and economic rights,and the active involvement in the organized life of a political community, is still firmly tied in most countries of Central and
Eastern Europe to a heteropatriarchal social imaginary in which the nation continues to be metaphorically configured as the exclusive home of the traditional heterosexual family - the purveyor of pure ethnic bloodlines based on rigid asymmetrical power system of gender relations. The conflation of heterosexism with ethnic nationalism that permeates this imaginary also fuels a vicious politics of national belonging where the use of highly inflammatory, offensive and dehumanising language has led to a dramatic increase in violence
against members of various sexual minorities, which in turn has resulted in the effective silencing of queer voices in the public sphere and the paradoxical feeling that sexually different people were somehow 'more free' under the previous regime.
The Amsterdam Treaty, a legal document attempting to define the evolving concept of European citizenship, intends to temper the current trend of hyper-nationalist integration into 'Europe of nations' by moving to a vision of Europe of (individual) citizens. The Treaty, particularly Article 13, clearly states that the respect
for human rights and the principle of non-discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation forms the basis of 21st century European citizenship. However, many new member-states of the EU and candidate countries blatantly and proudly flout their human rights obligations
derived from their (current or future) accession into the EU and continue to devise a raft of laws and policies denying basic human and citizenship rights to lesbians, gays, transsexuals and queers, including the right to assembly and free expression.
Deep historical distrust in identity based organizations and identity politics, a weak civil society, a fragile rule of law, and the ignorance about, or unpreparedness to use, the legal and political instruments of European citizenship, create a very unique set of challenges for LGBTQ people in post-socialist Europe on their road to
freedom and equality. Transnational LGBTQ rights movements arising from the institutional, legal, social, political, economic and intellectual successes of the gay, lesbian and queer movements in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand become increasingly aware that a western model of sexual politics and citizenship based on political and economic (capitalist) liberalism is simply unworkable in post-socialist Europe.
Given this context, SEXTURES invites theoretical, conceptual and empirical essays from scholars of all disciplines (philosophy, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, Slavonic/Eastern European/Balkan studies, cultural studies, sociology, geography, anthropology, political science, history, and comparative literatures) who are working on topics related to gender, sexuality and citizenship in post-socialist Europe.
We are particularly interested in inter- and transdisciplinary essays, critically drawing from feminist, gay and lesbian, transsexual, queer, postcolonial and critical race theories, that examine the concept of (sexual) citizenship in all its complexity; from being a social relationship inflected by intersecting sexual, gender, ethnic, national, class and religious identities; positioning across various cross-cutting social hierarchies; cultural assumptions about 'good' and 'bad' citizens and 'humans' and 'aliens'; to institutional practices of active discrimination and marginalization, and a sense and politics of belonging to an imagined community like
the nation or 'united Europe'.
We welcome thoughtful philosophical reflections on the relationship between ideology, utopia and European citizenship with a particular emphasis on the productive function of the social imaginary as understood, for example, by Deleuze and Ricoeur. In this context, we particularly encourage submissions examining the promises and limits of the concepts of 'flexible' or 'nomadic' citizenship for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and queers living in post-socialist Europe.
We are also interested in empirically grounded close examinations of actual practices of social belonging (or non-belonging) as lived by ordinary LGBTQ people in a number of everyday social situations at home, school, work, dealing with the state, etc. In this context, we welcome submissions that explore the emotional dynamic, and the cultural politics of emotions, played out in these situations.
While we focus on Central and Eastern Europe, we welcome submissions that cover issues of sexual citizenship in other parts of the world.
Submissions should be no longer than 8000 words. Please consult our guide for contributors when preparing your manuscripts. The guide can be found at http://www.sextures.net/guidelines-for-contributors.
Deadline for submission of papers is 2 June 2009.
Sextures is a refereed international, independent, transdisciplinary electronic scholarly journal that aims to provide a forum for open intellectual debate across the arts, humanities and social sciences about all aspects affecting the intricate connections between politics, culture and sexuality primarily, but not exclusively, in
the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe. It is published in English twice a year. Sextures is dedicated to fast turnaround of submitted papers. We expect this special issue to be published in September 2009. More information about the journal can be found on its website: www.sextures.net
Please direct all inquiries regarding this special issue or send manuscripts to: Dr Alexander Lambevski, Founding Editor and Publisher alex@sextures.net"
Deadline - 02.06.2009
'Harbingers of death', 'the shame and ruin of humanity', 'anti-life', 'threat to the survival of the human race', 'moral and physical cripples', and 'vampires sucking the life blood of the nation' are only some of the images of radical alterity invoked and regularly rehearsed by major political figures in post-socialist European
countries when faced with native lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) claims to citizenship. Citizenship, understood here as the practicing of social, cultural, political and economic rights,and the active involvement in the organized life of a political community, is still firmly tied in most countries of Central and
Eastern Europe to a heteropatriarchal social imaginary in which the nation continues to be metaphorically configured as the exclusive home of the traditional heterosexual family - the purveyor of pure ethnic bloodlines based on rigid asymmetrical power system of gender relations. The conflation of heterosexism with ethnic nationalism that permeates this imaginary also fuels a vicious politics of national belonging where the use of highly inflammatory, offensive and dehumanising language has led to a dramatic increase in violence
against members of various sexual minorities, which in turn has resulted in the effective silencing of queer voices in the public sphere and the paradoxical feeling that sexually different people were somehow 'more free' under the previous regime.
The Amsterdam Treaty, a legal document attempting to define the evolving concept of European citizenship, intends to temper the current trend of hyper-nationalist integration into 'Europe of nations' by moving to a vision of Europe of (individual) citizens. The Treaty, particularly Article 13, clearly states that the respect
for human rights and the principle of non-discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation forms the basis of 21st century European citizenship. However, many new member-states of the EU and candidate countries blatantly and proudly flout their human rights obligations
derived from their (current or future) accession into the EU and continue to devise a raft of laws and policies denying basic human and citizenship rights to lesbians, gays, transsexuals and queers, including the right to assembly and free expression.
Deep historical distrust in identity based organizations and identity politics, a weak civil society, a fragile rule of law, and the ignorance about, or unpreparedness to use, the legal and political instruments of European citizenship, create a very unique set of challenges for LGBTQ people in post-socialist Europe on their road to
freedom and equality. Transnational LGBTQ rights movements arising from the institutional, legal, social, political, economic and intellectual successes of the gay, lesbian and queer movements in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand become increasingly aware that a western model of sexual politics and citizenship based on political and economic (capitalist) liberalism is simply unworkable in post-socialist Europe.
Given this context, SEXTURES invites theoretical, conceptual and empirical essays from scholars of all disciplines (philosophy, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, Slavonic/Eastern European/Balkan studies, cultural studies, sociology, geography, anthropology, political science, history, and comparative literatures) who are working on topics related to gender, sexuality and citizenship in post-socialist Europe.
We are particularly interested in inter- and transdisciplinary essays, critically drawing from feminist, gay and lesbian, transsexual, queer, postcolonial and critical race theories, that examine the concept of (sexual) citizenship in all its complexity; from being a social relationship inflected by intersecting sexual, gender, ethnic, national, class and religious identities; positioning across various cross-cutting social hierarchies; cultural assumptions about 'good' and 'bad' citizens and 'humans' and 'aliens'; to institutional practices of active discrimination and marginalization, and a sense and politics of belonging to an imagined community like
the nation or 'united Europe'.
We welcome thoughtful philosophical reflections on the relationship between ideology, utopia and European citizenship with a particular emphasis on the productive function of the social imaginary as understood, for example, by Deleuze and Ricoeur. In this context, we particularly encourage submissions examining the promises and limits of the concepts of 'flexible' or 'nomadic' citizenship for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and queers living in post-socialist Europe.
We are also interested in empirically grounded close examinations of actual practices of social belonging (or non-belonging) as lived by ordinary LGBTQ people in a number of everyday social situations at home, school, work, dealing with the state, etc. In this context, we welcome submissions that explore the emotional dynamic, and the cultural politics of emotions, played out in these situations.
While we focus on Central and Eastern Europe, we welcome submissions that cover issues of sexual citizenship in other parts of the world.
Submissions should be no longer than 8000 words. Please consult our guide for contributors when preparing your manuscripts. The guide can be found at http://www.sextures.net/guidelines-for-contributors.
Deadline for submission of papers is 2 June 2009.
Sextures is a refereed international, independent, transdisciplinary electronic scholarly journal that aims to provide a forum for open intellectual debate across the arts, humanities and social sciences about all aspects affecting the intricate connections between politics, culture and sexuality primarily, but not exclusively, in
the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe. It is published in English twice a year. Sextures is dedicated to fast turnaround of submitted papers. We expect this special issue to be published in September 2009. More information about the journal can be found on its website: www.sextures.net
Please direct all inquiries regarding this special issue or send manuscripts to: Dr Alexander Lambevski, Founding Editor and Publisher alex@sextures.net"
Reflections Special Edition on Issues of Privilege
Conferences & Call for Proposals | LGBTQIA: "Call for Papers: Reflections Special Edition on Issues of Privilege
While the topic of oppression and marginalized populations has historically been the focus of multiculturalism in social work education and practice, there has been increasing attention in the last few years from scholars and practitioners on the topic of privilege and its role in maintaining systems of stratification. This attention has primarily focused on white and male privilege, but has broadened more recently to include social class, heterosexual, able-bodied, U.S./American, citizenship, linguistic, size, Christian, educational, and positional privilege. The journal Reflections seeks narratives from the perspectives of students, educators, practitioners, and clients on the impact of privilege on the practice of social work and other helping professions, as well as the education, training, and supervision of practitioners. For more information, contact N. Eugene Walls at 303/871-4367 or by email at ewalls2@du.edu. Due date for submissions is June 30, 2009."
While the topic of oppression and marginalized populations has historically been the focus of multiculturalism in social work education and practice, there has been increasing attention in the last few years from scholars and practitioners on the topic of privilege and its role in maintaining systems of stratification. This attention has primarily focused on white and male privilege, but has broadened more recently to include social class, heterosexual, able-bodied, U.S./American, citizenship, linguistic, size, Christian, educational, and positional privilege. The journal Reflections seeks narratives from the perspectives of students, educators, practitioners, and clients on the impact of privilege on the practice of social work and other helping professions, as well as the education, training, and supervision of practitioners. For more information, contact N. Eugene Walls at 303/871-4367 or by email at ewalls2@du.edu. Due date for submissions is June 30, 2009."
Call for Submissions: Journal of Hate Studies
Conferences & Call for Proposals | LGBTQIA: "Call for Submissions: Journal of Hate Studies
The Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate* is soliciting submissions for the seventh volume of the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Journal of Hate Studies. We are interested in papers from various disciplines that address “The Science of Hate.” This may include research and knowledge about hate’s origins and manifestations seen through the lenses of empirical sciences that rely on experimental, quantifiable data or the scientific method and emphasize reliability and validity. We are also interested in papers that explore solutions and strategies for addressing hate from an empirical perspective, as well as methods and content that may combat the manifestation of hate. A special invitation is extended to scholars from disciplines such as biology, medicine, chemistry, economics, genetics, cybernetic evolution, and the neurosciences. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines. Submissions are due by February 1, 2009, and should be between 5000-10,000 words. Address submissions and questions to the Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate, AD Box 43, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane WA 99258-0043; email address: againsthate@gonzaga.edu."
The Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate* is soliciting submissions for the seventh volume of the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Journal of Hate Studies. We are interested in papers from various disciplines that address “The Science of Hate.” This may include research and knowledge about hate’s origins and manifestations seen through the lenses of empirical sciences that rely on experimental, quantifiable data or the scientific method and emphasize reliability and validity. We are also interested in papers that explore solutions and strategies for addressing hate from an empirical perspective, as well as methods and content that may combat the manifestation of hate. A special invitation is extended to scholars from disciplines such as biology, medicine, chemistry, economics, genetics, cybernetic evolution, and the neurosciences. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines. Submissions are due by February 1, 2009, and should be between 5000-10,000 words. Address submissions and questions to the Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate, AD Box 43, 502 E. Boone Avenue, Spokane WA 99258-0043; email address: againsthate@gonzaga.edu."
Special issue on Citizenship
Referat Genderforschung: Call for papers: "Call for Papers: Special issue on Citizenship
Deadline: May 15, 2009
Guest Editors: Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon
Citizenship is a category of inclusion, belonging, protection and allegiance, as well as a boundary, an instantiation of exclusion, and an occasion for social and political conflict. In our historical moment, the meanings of citizenship in relation to feminist thinking about gender, sexuality, race and nation are far from straightforward. This is a moment for reimagining a wide range of issues related to citizenship, such as national and transnational allegiances and identities in a globalized world, statelessness and asylum, claims to the rights and protections of citizenship, attempts to delimit citizenship based on religion, ethnicity and race, articulations of belonging, and those of exile, alienation or treason.
This special issue of WSQ invites work that will contribute to an exploration of citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome academic papers from a variety of perspectives in all disciplines, from theory, qualitative research, and empirical studies to literary and cultural studies. We will also consider creative prose, poetry, visual artwork and memoir that explore the theme of citizenship.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
* borders: spaces and practices of inclusion and exclusion
* liminal citizenship: exile, detention and asylum
* citizenship and terrorism
* migration, immigration and diaspora
* women, politics and power in governance
* suffrage, civil rights, and feminism
* governmentality and neoliberalism
* sexual citizenship and gay marriage
* biosociality, health and citizenship
* originary myths and founding documents of the state
* affiliations, alienation and allegiance
* treasons
* contested nationalities, dual loyalties, transnational identities
* literacy, language, and citizenship
* cultural integration, cultural differentiation
* postcolonial independence
* premodern statehood, tribal and monarchical organization
* ‘naturalization’
* claiming place: urban cultural appropriation
* political satire
* discourses of patriotism
* citizens as stockholders
* national service and social citizenship
* organizations without borders
* religious identity and social citizenship
* on-line activism, social networking and political participation
* race, passing, and the transnational body
* cosmopolitanism, regionalism, globalism
If submitting academic work, please send articles by May 15, 2009 to the guest editors Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon at: WSQCitizenshipIssue@gmail.com. Articles should adhere to WSQ style guidelines. They should be no longer than 22 pages.
Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com, by May 15. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please paste poetry submissions into the body of the e-mail along with all contact information.
Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor, Susan Daitch, at sdaitch@hunter.cuny.edu by May 15. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail.
Art submissions should be sent to WSQCitizenshipIssue@gmail.com by May 15. Please keep in mind that after art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS"
Deadline: May 15, 2009
Guest Editors: Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon
Citizenship is a category of inclusion, belonging, protection and allegiance, as well as a boundary, an instantiation of exclusion, and an occasion for social and political conflict. In our historical moment, the meanings of citizenship in relation to feminist thinking about gender, sexuality, race and nation are far from straightforward. This is a moment for reimagining a wide range of issues related to citizenship, such as national and transnational allegiances and identities in a globalized world, statelessness and asylum, claims to the rights and protections of citizenship, attempts to delimit citizenship based on religion, ethnicity and race, articulations of belonging, and those of exile, alienation or treason.
This special issue of WSQ invites work that will contribute to an exploration of citizenship, broadly conceived. We welcome academic papers from a variety of perspectives in all disciplines, from theory, qualitative research, and empirical studies to literary and cultural studies. We will also consider creative prose, poetry, visual artwork and memoir that explore the theme of citizenship.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
* borders: spaces and practices of inclusion and exclusion
* liminal citizenship: exile, detention and asylum
* citizenship and terrorism
* migration, immigration and diaspora
* women, politics and power in governance
* suffrage, civil rights, and feminism
* governmentality and neoliberalism
* sexual citizenship and gay marriage
* biosociality, health and citizenship
* originary myths and founding documents of the state
* affiliations, alienation and allegiance
* treasons
* contested nationalities, dual loyalties, transnational identities
* literacy, language, and citizenship
* cultural integration, cultural differentiation
* postcolonial independence
* premodern statehood, tribal and monarchical organization
* ‘naturalization’
* claiming place: urban cultural appropriation
* political satire
* discourses of patriotism
* citizens as stockholders
* national service and social citizenship
* organizations without borders
* religious identity and social citizenship
* on-line activism, social networking and political participation
* race, passing, and the transnational body
* cosmopolitanism, regionalism, globalism
If submitting academic work, please send articles by May 15, 2009 to the guest editors Terri Gordon and Robin Rogers-Dillon at: WSQCitizenshipIssue@gmail.com. Articles should adhere to WSQ style guidelines. They should be no longer than 22 pages.
Poetry submissions should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com, by May 15. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting poems. Please note that poetry submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the poetry editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please paste poetry submissions into the body of the e-mail along with all contact information.
Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's fiction/nonfiction editor, Susan Daitch, at sdaitch@hunter.cuny.edu by May 15. Please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of submissions we prefer before submitting prose. Please note that prose submissions may be held for six months or longer. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the prose editor is notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. We do not accept work that has been previously published. Please provide all contact information in the body of the e-mail.
Art submissions should be sent to WSQCitizenshipIssue@gmail.com by May 15. Please keep in mind that after art is reviewed and accepted, accepted art must be sent to the journal's managing editor on a CD that includes all artwork of 300 DPI or greater, saved as 4.25 inches wide or larger. These files should be saved as individual JPEGS or TIFFS"
Special issue of Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society - Anarchism & Sexuality
Referat Genderforschung: Call for papers: "CfP: Special issue of Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society - Anarchism & Sexuality
Deadline: April 15, 2009
Anarchism has long played a role in the politics of sexuality. Embodied in the historic figures of Emma Goldman, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter & Daniel Guérin or in social movements including ACT-UP, Mujeres Libres & Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the erotic and the anarchic have come together. Meanwhile, recent years have seen a revival of anarchist scholarship intertwined with the global rise of what some commentators have called 'the movement of movements,' characterised by horizontal forms of organisation and the practice of anarchist ethics (Gordon, 2008). These movements against neoliberalism include within them alternatives to increasingly corporate-friendly & state-centred lesbian and gay politics. This special issue aims to deepen the attention of scholarship to these and other (potential) intersections of anarchism and sexuality.
Prospective authors are invited to consider the following themes (and to offer their own): the sexual politics of anarchisms, libertarian socialisms and autonomous feminisms, sexuality, gender, race, class & ecology in anarchist & anarchic movements, queering anarchisms, autonomous queer spaces, the sexual politics of hierarchy, sexuality and cultural activism
Contact:
Submissions and queries to JamieHeckert@gmail.com
http://sexualities.sagepub.com/"
Deadline: April 15, 2009
Anarchism has long played a role in the politics of sexuality. Embodied in the historic figures of Emma Goldman, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter & Daniel Guérin or in social movements including ACT-UP, Mujeres Libres & Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the erotic and the anarchic have come together. Meanwhile, recent years have seen a revival of anarchist scholarship intertwined with the global rise of what some commentators have called 'the movement of movements,' characterised by horizontal forms of organisation and the practice of anarchist ethics (Gordon, 2008). These movements against neoliberalism include within them alternatives to increasingly corporate-friendly & state-centred lesbian and gay politics. This special issue aims to deepen the attention of scholarship to these and other (potential) intersections of anarchism and sexuality.
Prospective authors are invited to consider the following themes (and to offer their own): the sexual politics of anarchisms, libertarian socialisms and autonomous feminisms, sexuality, gender, race, class & ecology in anarchist & anarchic movements, queering anarchisms, autonomous queer spaces, the sexual politics of hierarchy, sexuality and cultural activism
Contact:
Submissions and queries to JamieHeckert@gmail.com
http://sexualities.sagepub.com/"
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