*Call for Papers*
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Image & Text no. 30
Issue Editors: Dr Benita de Robillard and Dr Ruth Lipschitz
*Article submission: 30 April 2017*
Publication: 30 December 2017 – January 2018
Length: 5000-7000 words
All submissions and general enquiries should be sent directly to both of
the issue
editors: *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>*
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*Themed Issue: “Visual Cultures of Race and Animality”*
The human/animal question has surfaced in the Humanities with a sense of
urgency.
The themed issue of Image & Text on “Visual Cultures of Race and Animality”
aims to
develop this multi- and interdisciplinary interest from transnational and/
or African
vantage points. Questions about the figuration, and framing, of the human
demonstrate that what ‘the West’ calls ‘Human’ and what it calls ‘Animal’
has fatal
consequences. As Jacques Derrida and Cary Wolfe point out, the non-criminal
death
of the other that animalises animals and makes available a politics of
animalisation
can be transferred to any species. Recent scholarship that has extended
Derrida’s
interventions into the longstanding question of the animal has staged how
difference and relationality still need to be thought through with
reference to the
problem of the ‘Human’, its limits, and violent effects. Our aim is to widen
scholarship that investigates the nexus of race and animality beyond Western
settings and/ or frameworks.
The themed issue will call attention to how, and with what effects, race and
animality emerge in the politics of visualities, ‘origins’, alterities,
geographies,
embodiments, technologies of control, violence, and migrations. We call for
papers
concerned with visual cultures broadly conceived that draw from, but are
not limited
to, the following areas of interest: critical race studies, indigenous
knowledges,
queer, trans*, and crip perspectives, biopolitics, deconstruction, feminist
and
ecocritical epistemologies, Deleuzian perspectives, the medical humanities,
science
and technology studies, and the environmental and digital humanities.
Before submitting we encourage you to visit Image & Text’s website to
familiarise
yourself with the journal. http://www.imageandtext.up.ac.za/index.
php/submissions
Guidelines regarding the journal’s house style and technical requirements
are also
available on this website.
Submissions will be accepted by email. Please use MS-Word format and include
your
surname in the filename of the document you send. Please include Image &
Text
submission in the subject line of your email. If you intend to send large
images electronically,
please contact the editors first to arrange the best means of doing so.
your surname in
the filename of the document you send. Please include Image & Text
submission in the
subject line of your email. If you intend to send large images
electronically, please contact
the editors first to arrange the best means of doing so.
On final acceptance a declaration must be submitted wherein the author
states that
the article submitted is based on original research. The author must
furthermore
stipulate that the article has not been submitted elsewhere for
consideration, or has
not been published elsewhere under another title (an example of this
declaration is
available on Image & Text’s website).
Authors are responsible for securing copyright permission for any images
that are to
be reproduced.
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Audrey Grace Bennett
Professor
Department of Communication and Media
Rensselaer
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590
+1 518 276 8129
baohouse.org/audreygbennett
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