Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to inform you that the American Men's Studies Annual
Conference will be held at Brandon University between June 12th and 14th
2019. Please find the CfP below. Further information can be found at our
website: https://mensstudies.org/?page_id=941
Call for Papers: At the Boundaries of Ourselves: Masculinities &
Decoloniality
Deadline: February 15, 2019
Building off of the innovative presentations and lectures given at the
American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) conference in March 2018 in
Minneapolis, this conference seeks to push forward the field of Critical
Studies of Men & Masculinities further. Last year the theme – ‘Bodies,
Sexualities, Masculinities’ – addressed critical gaps in the field related
to sex and sexualities and their connection to bodies. Similarly, this
year’s conference looks to examine the holes in the field related to issues
of space, borders, location, the interface of space and ontologies (urban,
rural, remote... hipsters, lumbersexuals, farmers, but also masculinity,
mental health and space), masculinity and dis-location (spatial and
ephemeral: inclusion/exclusion i.e.), borders and migration, nation
building colonial invasion, ontological hybridity and buttressing
(whiteness, one-drop politics, mestizos...), colonialism, indigeneity, and
the ways that these impact on men and masculinities globally. As part of
this, AMSA is hosting its annual conference for the second time outside of
the US at Brandon University in Canada.
The conference explicitly brings together decoloniality (and colonialism)
and critical studies of men and masculinities. We seek to ask some of the
following questions: What types of masculinities come to the fore when
starting from a decolonial (or postcolonial) lens? How
does the incorporation of indigeneity and indigenous masculinities impact
our conceptual tools, and what new tools, concepts, theories, and methods
does it provide? In what ways has the whiteness of the field further
marginalized insights from studies around colonialism and scholars of color
and from the ‘global south’? How do new forms of colonialism,
border-making, and neoliberal forces challenge and change ways of being a
man and the shapes of masculinities? In what ways do current paradigms of
colonialism, decolonialism, and neoliberalism change, challenge, and alter
the ways that individuals construct themselves, come into contact with one
another, and relate with one another and groups?
We encourage participants to think outside of current epistemic frameworks
and to build dialogue between various fields and theories. This includes
Decolonial Theory, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Biopolitics, Crip
Theory, Indigenous Studies Theory, and new theories of power.
Seeking to encourage interdisciplinarity, the conference will particularly
bridge the gaps between decolonial studies/theory and men and masculinity
studies. This crossover will contribute richly to knowledge on the topic,
and provide for unique and interesting dialogue amongst participants. This
conference, then, hopes to build productively on a variety of theoretical
paradigms and to push the field forward in thinking through decolonialism
and the critical study of men and masculinities. The conference is open to
a number of different types of sessions. We welcome submissions of
individual papers, panels, and posters.
Submit your Proposals to [log in to unmask]
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