Dear all,
A reminder for those who are considering sending in a piece for this
special issue. If you have any questions, concerns or just want to
chat about an idea, please feel free to get in touch. Please share
with others who you expect might be interested.
Warm wishes,
Jamie
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Anarchism & Sexuality
a special issue of Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society
Anarchism has long played a role in the politics of sexuality.
Embodied in the historic figures of Emma Goldman, Oscar Wilde, Edward
Carpenter, Alex Comfort & 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
Deadline for paper submissions: 15 April 2009
For author guidelines, see http://sexualities.sagepub.com
For an extended bibliography on Anarchism & Sexuality, see
http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/ReadingLists_Sexuality
Submissions and queries to Jamie Heckert: [log in to unmask]
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Gordon, Uri (2008) Anarchy Alive! Anti-Authoritarian Politics from
Practice to Theory (London/Ann Arbor: Pluto)
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