[Gala-l] CFP Special Issue on Feminist and Queer Spaces within Global Contexts

[Peel, Katie]

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'The Politics of Location': Feminist and Queer Spaces within Global Contexts

For this special issue of Gramma/??????: Journal of Theory and Criticism (2018) we invite you to submit papers focusing on what Adrienne Rich termed "the politics of location." Papers may examine theoretical, literary, and, more broadly, artistic explorations of various kinds of location (for example, in addition to location, allocation, dislocation, relocation). How do cultural, economic, historical, and political legacies, as well as material conditions, inform or produce the movement of bodies across various spaces (for example, textual, media, geographical, temporal, embodied, relational)? How does such movement shape the definition, recognition, viability, and value of those bodies? How have changing conceptions of space produced and reshaped understandings of gender, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, race, disability, and class? Relatedly, in what ways does the body become the site where individual, local and global intersections take place?

Contributions may analyze works from any time period or engage with readings across times and cultures. Topics may include the following:


  *   digital embodiments and cybersexualities
  *   new media spaces as counter-geographies
  *   the globalization of erotic spaces
  *   race and class questioning within and against feminist and queer geography
  *   postcolonial locations and bodies
  *   decoloniality
  *   feminist politics in local/global frameworks
  *   transnational activism and body rights
  *   human trafficking
  *   migrations
  *   refugee crises

Proposals (500 words) and a short/abbreviated curriculum vitae should be sent to Margaret Breen (Margaret.Breen at uconn.edu<mailto:Margaret.Breen at uconn.edu>) and Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (katkit at enl.auth.gr<mailto:katkit at enl.auth.gr>) by March 15, 2017 (drafts will be due by August 1, 2017).

Gramma/??????: Journal of Theory and Criticism is an international journal, published in English and Greek once a year by the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Publications Department of the university. It welcomes articles and book reviews from a wide range of areas within the theory and criticism of literature and culture. Of particular interest to the journal are articles with an interdisciplinary approach. Each individual issue has guest editors and is devoted to a subject of recent cultural interest, with book reviews relevant to the topic. All manuscripts are subject to blind peer review and will be commented on by at least two independent experts.

For more information about the journal, visit http://www.enl.auth.gr/gramma/index.html .




Katie R. Peel
Associate Professor of English
University of North Carolina Wilmington
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