Call for Papers
Confronting the Politics of Racialized Sexualities: On Regulating
Minority Gender Relations and Sexualities
Call for papers for RC05/RC32 Joint Session at the 17th ISA World
Congress of Sociology, 11-17 July 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
RC05 (Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations)/RC32 (Women in
Society)
Session organizers:
Sirma Bilge, Université de Montréal, Canada, [log in to unmask]
Paul Scheibelhofer, Central European University, Hungary,
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Submission deadline: October 1st 2009
Questions of gender and sexualities are essential to understand
politics of race and nation at different levels of analysis, whether
the local, the national, or the global. Drawing on what David Goldberg
called the 'liberal paradox', i.e. how the commitment of modernity to
idealized principles of liberty and equality goes hand in hand with a
multiplication of racialized identities and the sets of exclusions they
prompt and rationalize, enable and sustain (Goldberg 1993), the
proposed session will tackle the ways in which ethnocultural exclusion
and racialization processes in western liberal democracies currently
operate through the problematization of minority/migrant gender
relations and sexualities. We are particularly interested in the
current mobilizations of women's rights and gay rights to construe the
'civilized' space of western freedoms and their 'enemies'. Besides the
critique of these exclusionary discourses and practices, we welcome
contributions engaging with questions of resistance/emancipation and
counter-hegemonic practices, and providing frameworks for developing
knowledge that lessen domination.
Identified thematic areas for papers include but not limited to:
* Articulations of sexuality and nationalism: recent developments and
historical legacies
* The 'war on terror' and 'progressive' politics of sexuality
* Regulatory controls over migrant gender norms, sexualities and bodies
* Discourses on sexual freedoms/gender equality and (cultural) racism
* Minority/Migrant challenges to regulatory practices and hegemonic
discourses
* Representing and regulating minority/migrant masculinities and
femininities
* The class politics of racializing sexualities
* Regulating controversial practices (hijab, arranged marriage,
polygamy, 'honour' crimes, excision, etc.)
* [Discourses on]'Human trafficking' and the control of mobility
* [Discourses on] 'urban riots'; the 'war on drugs', the 'war on gangs'
* Conjunctions of racism and technologies of sex
Submitting your paper proposals:
We invite all submitters to make explicit in their proposals the
following two points in order to facilitate the evaluation process:
How does the question to be discussed in the paper relate to the
general theme of the Joint Session? In which theoretical and/or
methodological debates is the paper situated?
** Paper proposals should be approximately 350 words.
** Please be sure to provide the full name, institutional affiliation,
phone, fax, and email address for all authors.
** Please submit your paper abstract by email directly to session
organizers:
Sirma Bilge ([log in to unmask])
and to Paul Scheibelhofer ([log in to unmask]),
with a Cc of your submission to the conference program coordinators
within RC32: Margaret Abraham ([log in to unmask])
and Esther
Ngan-ling Chow ([log in to unmask]).
Submission deadline: October 1st 2009.
For more information on submission procedures you can visit the website
of the Congress at:
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/how_to_present_a_paper.htm
and the specific information given on the page of our host committee
RC32: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc32.htm.