[ecrea] CFP Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Affect, Animals, and Trans* Studies

Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Affect, Animals, and Trans* Studies

Edited by Eliza Steinbock, Marianna Szczygielska, Anthony Wagner


What are the possible, imagined and visceral moments of overlap between 
animal and trans* studies today? This special issue seeks to explore the 
“intimate links” of somatechnical entanglements between transgender 
experiences, animals and ugly/glorious affects. We hope to highlight 
lines of inquiry that forge new connections and alliances amongst the 
critical investigation of trans embodiment, animals and affective 
her/histories and futures. Recent scholarly interest in decentring the 
human subject and exploring interspecies relations can be traced to a 
variety of fields including but not limited to activism, new 
materialism, posthumanism, bio/necropolitics, critical race studies, 
object-oriented ontology, animal studies, actor network theory, 
disability studies, crip theory, affect studies, art, postcolonial and 
eco-critique and queer theory. Responding to this growing body of 
scholarship we invite submissions which explore the “animacies” (Chen)
!
 that shape transgender and animal studies discourses, activism, and 
art today.


Whether envisioned as a shared space in the knowledge production system, 
or as an ontological zone of humanimal becoming(s), “tranimacies” delve 
into complex entanglements and radical consequences of queering the 
nonhuman. With careful attention paid to the troubling histories of the 
human/nonhuman interface, shaped by colonialism, modern 
medical-scientific industry, capitalism, biotechnology, concerns over 
health, this issue critically links it to transness as a lived reality. 
By tracing “moments of taxonomic tensions” (Livingstone and Puar) we aim 
at complicating the ways in which trans* and animal meet and how they 
are inflected by the categories of race, ability, class, sexuality, 
geopolitical location, etc. By inviting contributors to challenge the 
symbolic labour and economic materiality of collapsing transness and 
animality, we hope to open up vibrant discussions that will radically 
politicize the contours of tranimacies.

Some topics that essays/contributions might consider:
?    the politics of human desire to queer nonhumans
?    tranimacies in art/visual culture and literature
?    queer ecologies, interspecies encounters and transpecies embodiments
?    new directions in scholarship on “animal transsex”, “animacies” and 
interspecies relations
?    animographies and vitographies of trans* experience
?    the place of affect in gendered technologies/somatechnics
?    body/machine/animal/cyborg
?    the politics and materiality of hormone/capital/knowledge flows
?    biopolitical and necropolitical dimensions of trans*/posthuman 
experiences
?    cross-species and cross-gender subjectivities
?    animacies of racial embodiment in a larger-than-human world
?    new zoontologies of gender diversity
?    transdisciplinarity of affective approaches
?    genealogies of affects inscribed in geopolitical concepts and bodies
?    (de)racialization of trans* embodiments
?    supernatural trans* animals (e.g. alien, ghost, monster, vampire, 
werewolf)
?    transing capacity, debility, affectivity
?    slow death, captivity, populations_species under threat of extinction

The intimate links between trans* and animal, their relevance to society 
and activism, and their impact on art make it necessary to consider them 
beyond the limits of scholarly research. Therefore we encourage 
traditionally academic submissions as well as visual materials, activist 
reports and other varying genres. Only previously unpublished (in 
English) work considered.

Submission guidelines:
Due February 1, 2014 to (tranimacies /at/ gmail.com) as word documents (.doc or 
.docx).
- Extended abstract of 500 words. Include a work plan that explains your 
work to-date on the topic and how your proposed article will address the 
concept of tranimacies.
- 1-page CV
*Notifications will follow March 1, 2014. Full submissions due July 1, 
2014 for peer-review process. Publication date envisaged in Spring 2015.

EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/428267787295538/?source=1

Dr. Eliza Steinbock
Personal Page: http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl/staff/steinbock

Lecturer / Research Fellow: Center for Gender and Diversity / Department 
of Literature and Art
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University (The Netherlands)

Grote Gracht 80-82 / 6211 SZ Maastricht / Room: 2.008 / Phone: 
+31-(0)43-388-2755 / Email: (eliza.steinbock /at/ maastrichtuniversity.nl)

New article "On the Affective Force of 'Nasty Love'" available for free 
download
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UYkpAydbXw7bFkYY4kkE/full

NICA Public Lecture and Masterclass with Prof. Heather Love, January 
16-17, 2014
http://www.nica-institute.com/heather-love-queer-affect-and-method/

CfP Special Issue: "Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Affect, Animals 
and Trans* Studies"
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