[ecrea] CFP Cultural Unbound "The performative power of cultural products"

*SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS*

*/Cultural Unbound/*seeks submissions for:

“The performative power of cultural products in the making and remaking
of figurations of gender and sexuality, within and by way of
transnational communities”

A special issue slated for publication in December 2016.

Deadline for submitting abstracts: March 1, 2016

Guest editors:
Pia Laskar, PhD, Senior lecturer, Linköping University, Sweden

Erika Alm, PhD, Senior lecturer, Göteborg University, Sweden

Cathrin Wasshede, PhD, Senior lecturer, Göteborg University, Sweden

In this call we are looking for texts that explore gendered and sexual
futures beyond Eurocentric and binary paradigms on the secular
respectively the religious.

We invite texts investigating the function of cultural products in the
making and remaking of figurations of gender and sexuality. Through
focusing on cultural products we hope to be able to tap into and explore
practices of communities of belonging that might take other forms than
the ones easily recognized.

Cultural notions and practices of femininities, masculinities, and
sexualities, undergo deep transformations globally, as they move
between, and within, the local and the transnational in multiple and
entangled ways. Scholarship on these changes, feminist postcolonial
intellectuals argue, tend to move within a narrow developmental
paradigm, in which what is defined as gendered progress as well as
progress related to sexual rights, is often understood within a
traditional-modernity frame in which Europe and secularism are seen as
given, and perceived as the center of, and the condition for this
progress. Further, it is argued, European civil society, in a
modernist/colonial tradition, takes on the “burden” to change and
reorganise issues on gender and sexualities in other parts of the world
(Spivak 1999; Mohanty 2006; Puar 2007; Massad 2007; Asad 2009; Mahmood
2009; Tamale 2013).Thus, of special interest in this call, is studies on
transnational communities in which gender and sexual norms are performed
in varied, diverse and even antagonistic patterns.We are especially
interested in the performative power of cultural products within and by
way of transnational communities. What do cultural products /do /to, and
for, civil society and its (potential) actors, and what are their
political affects/effects? Are there new and original ways of studying
civil societies, and transformations of genders and sexualities, as both
global and local phenomena, which are in a state of constant change and
emergence?What happens if we follow cultural products like the rainbow
flag, or the veil, or manga series? What constitutions of communities of
belonging can be spotted? In what contexts do the usage and production
of cultural products, material and immaterial, consolidate into
communities of belonging, into commercialized phenomena, into political
strategies and even policy products?

*Please submit an abstract of 300 words*as well as 5-8 keywords before
March 1, 2016. Additionally, include a short author’s bio of 50 words,
including affiliation, research interests and e-mail address. Send
submissions to: (pia.laskar /at/ liu.se) <mailto:(pia.laskar /at/ liu.se)>

*About Culture Unbound*: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural
Research is a peer-reviewed, electronic academic journal for
border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as
other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. It is published by
the Linköping University Electronic Press, and is completely open-access
and does not charge publishing fees.

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