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Queering Middle Eastern Cyberscapes
Special issue of /Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies/*
http://sites.google.com/site/queeringmideasterncyberscapes/home
Guest Editors: Noor Al-Qasimi and Adi Kuntsman
*Call for Papers*
Digital media and cybercultures have long been explored as fields of
identity formation, cultural contestations, and political tensions.
Digital mediascapes have also been of particular interest to scholars of
gender and sexuality for their potential to transform some gendered,
racial, and sexual power structures while reaffirming, and often
violently reinforcing, others. This special issue of Journal of Middle
Eastern Women’s Studies aims to bring feminist and queer analysis of
media and communication technologies (the Internet, mobile phones,
surveillance technologies, digital television, and telecommunication) to
the field of the Middle East as both a geo-cultural space and a
political entity.
Our intention is to examine the intersections, tensions, and
co-constitutions of queer sexualities and communication technologies;
queerness as a form of digitalized affect and as a political practice;
mediated violence and violence of mediation; new technological frontiers
and frontiers of identities; and practices of everyday use and
digitalized imaginaries. We hope to explore these and other phenomena as
they emerge in Middle Eastern countries and communities and their
diasporas. In recent years, much work has focused on media in the Middle
East, and gender/sexuality in the Middle East; however, there is a
paucity of scholarship on the intersection of these fields. Still less
work has emphasized queering as a political metaphor in relation to the
field of Middle East Studies. The aim of this special issue is to
acknowledge the utility of a postcolonial queer critique as applied to
this region and its diasporas.
We are soliciting work that engages with the intersection of media and
sexuality with reference to the Middle East. Possible topics thus include:
Surveillance, war on terror
The policing of sexuality
Orientalism in new media cultures
Governmentality, biopolitics, and the Middle East
Sexuality and media censorship
Media technologies (e.g., YouTube, mobile phones, bluetooth,
picture/video messaging) and queerness
Queer and/or social networking websites (e.g., Facebook, MySpace)
Queer Middle Eastern diasporas in cyberspace
HIV/AIDS-related online communities
Homophobia
LGBT and NGO activism
Drag, cross-dressing, butch/femme identities, other queer subjectivities
Gay imperialism
We welcome abstracts of articles to be considered for inclusion in this
special volume. Please send a bio and a 500-word abstract detailing the
topic of your article, the overall context, your material, methodology,
and theoretical argument by *the 1st of February 2010* to
[log in to unmask] . Authors will be notified by the 15th of
February 2010 of the outcome of their submissions. If accepted, full
papers should be submitted by *the 1st of July 2010*. Papers will then
be reviewed individually in the standard double-blind review process.
We also welcome shorter pieces of creative or analytical writing (up to
1000 words, or 4000 words for interviews) or visual material on the
theme of this special volume. These pieces may be topical and/or
polemical. They are not sent out to be peer-reviewed but are selected by
the editors of the issue. If you would like to submit a short piece,
please contact us to discuss the format and deadlines.
Abstracts and inquiries about this issue should be sent to
[log in to unmask] .
Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The University of Manchester
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
_http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html_
_http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com_
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