CALL FOR PAPERS/CONVOCATORIA
“MASCULINITIES AND
VIOLENCE
IN
The December 2006 edition
of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American
Studies (JILAS) will
be a monograph dedicated to the issue of masculinity and violence in
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/jilas/styleguide.htm
It has been problematically argued that violence is
primarily attached to the masculine and knows no limits in terms of age, class,
race, ethnicity or nationality. In contemporary Hispanic/Latino societies, as
in many others, while women are sometimes complicit in domestic violence (abuse
of children or homicidal revenge against spouses), it is masculine violence that is ubiquitous and
rampant, whether in the domestic sphere of spousal and child abuse, in sexual
aggression, or in the public sphere of extortion, robbery, gangs, sport, war
and state violence. It has also been suggested that specific acts of violence
such as terrorism, sabotage, and bullying are overwhelmingly performed by men. What
role does masculinity play in instigating/condoning violence? What role does
violence play in defining masculinity? How is the nexus between masculinity and
violence portrayed, condoned, apologised for, challenged or simply ignored in
media, art, sport, schooling, the military, legal codes and state institutions?
Many forms of violence are intimately linked to
patriarchal culture and the historical residues of the now redundant divisions
of labour, which hitherto had prescribed hunting and military action to males,
while women were restricted to the affective and nurturing functions of the
domestic sphere. Is masculinity now in transition then to more acceptable,
non-violent forms of expression or indeed in transition to oblivion, along with
traditional notions of femininity, or are we witnessing a recrudesence of male
violence in the context of neo-liberal, global reordering, the silencing of
progressive thought and the intensification of the security state? What are the
rituals of masculinity that perpetuate violence? What is their discourse? What,
then, are the cultural and symbolic representations of masculinity and violence
in both historical and contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies? Is
there a particular Hispanic masculinity bequeathed to both modern
Approaches may include (but are
not limited to) the following topics:
- media representations of violence
-
literary/filmic/artistic representations of violence
-
contemporary
music and video/masculinity/violence
-
masculinity/violence/popular
culture
-
domestic,
intra-familiar violence
-
legal/juridical
implications of masculine violence
-
power/violence/masculinity
-
masculinity/nationalism/violence
-
masculinity/terrorism/violence
-
female collusion
in masculine violence
-
religion/masculinity/violence
-
the patriarchal
state and violence
-
colonialism and
violence
-
masculinity/violence/class
-
masculinity/violence/race
-
masculinity/violence/poverty
-
violence and
gangs
-
reversals and
variations of the ‘masculine-perpetrator versus female-victim’
model
Submissions are to be sent to one of the editors below
by no later than 30 May 2006:
Dr Jeffrey Browitt
Institute for
Broadway 2007
NSW
AUSTRALIA
Dr Stewart King
Associate Professor Alfredo Martínez Expósito
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
The
(Associate Professor) Alfredo
Martínez Expósito
Director of Postgraduate Studies and Reader in
Spanish
President, Association
for Iberian and Latin American Studies of
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
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