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The Graduate Journal of Social Science (GJSS) is an international,
interdisciplinary journal, aiming at providing examples of and discussions
over pluralism in methodology. The journal is peer reviewed and published
by the Amsterdam University Press twice a year.
For more details please look at: http://www.gjss.org
Call for Abstracts/Papers
Special Issue on:
Queer Studies: Methodological Approaches
Special issue editors: Robert Kulpa and Mia Liinason.
Special issue advisory board: Judith Halberstam, Tuula Juvonen and Tiina
Rosenberg
For some time on, queer scholars from different parts of the world,
brought to a fore the need for the re-contextualization of the word
“queer”; the need to problematize its reception in non-English contexts,
where the word “queer” is an empty signifier without history and negative
connections. This special issue of the GJSS seeks to assess ways in which
transnational/national contexts affect queer studies. Therefore, we would
like to ask: What impact does spatial and temporal contexts have on queer
formations and practises of story-telling? Moreover, this special issue
also acknowledges the emphasis on the mutual interdependencies of social
movements and academic theories. We question: What are the consequences of
the political struggle for academic activity? How can we deal with the
privileged position of Western canons? How we can think, act and write
about "the political/ideological" and "the academy"?
Welcome themes to be taken up in this special issue of GJSS
include:
(i)Multiple genealogies of Queer Studies
(ii)Queer Studies and the future?
(iii)Utopian/Anti-Utopian perspectives
(iv)Different archives for theorising queer (feminism, LGBT, post-
colonial -, post-communist -, economic -, geography - studies, and others)
(v)Queer intersectionality: gender, race, sexuality, class, generations,
history, poverty, ...
(vi)Queer method/ologies
(vii)Transnational/national contexts and various geo-political
possibilities of queering Queer Studies
(viii)Other related issues suggested by authors
Those interested in submitting a paper for this special issue should send
a 200 word abstract by September 30th 2007 followed by a preliminary draft
within two months (i.e. November 30th 2007).
Authors are asked to familiarize themselves with the general profile of
the journal, and to focus their papers accordingly.
Texts are peer reviewed and acceptance decisions will be made on the basis
of the preliminary draft.
Final deadline is January 31st 2008 (7000 words maximum).
Inquiries, abstracts and submissions should be sent to Robert Kulpa
(University College London, [log in to unmask]) or Mia Liinason (Lund
Univeristy, [log in to unmask]).
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