[ecrea] CFP Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture

*CFP: Queer Contexts in Australian and New Zealand Media Cultures*

*Special Issue of /Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture/*

*Edited by Catherine Hoad and Rachael Gunn (Macquarie University, Sydney)*

**

Scholarship on LGBT+ experiences, narratives, and representations has 
grown in recent years, but regional studies on queer media cultures, 
particularly in Australian and New Zealand contexts, remains 
under-researched or fragmented across myriad fields. This special issue 
seeks to consolidate research on Australian and New Zealand queer 
contexts, where the regional nuances of colonialism, indigeneity and 
globalisation have held specific implications for LGBT+ communities. It 
aims to incorporate papers that interrogate the nuances and 
manifestations of regional sexual and gender politics, and the 
concurrent dynamics between media and popular culture and queer contexts 
in Australia and New Zealand. Through drawing attention to the 
importance of place, ethnicity and regionality in discussions of LGBT+ 
media and popular culture, this special issue of /Queer Studies in Media 
and Popular Culture /will offer a cohesive volume that gives insights 
into innovative and timely LGBT+ research within the region.

We invite papers that pay critical attention to LGBT+ experiences, 
narratives and representations in the Australia-New Zealand nexus. This 
may include explorations of how the intersecting trajectories of 
marginality and (in)visibility shape queer experiences of, and 
representations within, media and popular culture in Australian and New 
Zealand contexts, or examinations of the localised complexities and 
contestations of queer representations in popular cultures. We invite 
submissions in the areas of queer geographies, regional media studies, 
and popular culture, and also the often overlooked complexities and 
inter-regionalities of queer studies within Australian and New Zealand 
paradigms. We invite proposals which explore, but are not restricted to, 
the following areas:

· Queer representations within Australian and New Zealand popular music, 
fiction, film and television

· Australian and New Zealand queer identities, colonialism, 
inter-regionality and globalisation

· Censorship and marginality of queer politics in regional cultural 
industries

· Queer creative contexts and cultures of resistance

· Queer histories – political, social, cultural

· Indigenous experiences, representations and narratives of queer identity

· Queer experiences within religious communities

· Diasporic queer experiences, practices and cultures

· Queer materialities, technologies and autoethnographies

Proposals which fall outside these areas but are still connected to 
Australian and New Zealand queer cultures will also be considered. 
Please note that select proposals may be nominated for publication in 
future issues of /Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture/.

Proposals (400 words), alongside affiliation and contact details, are to 
be emailed to (queerstudiesanz /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(queerstudiesanz /at/ gmail.com)> by *Monday September 4th, 2017*. If 
successful, full draft articles of 6,000 words (including notes, 
references, and figures) will be due in July of 2018.

We are also seeking reviews of related academic and popular media texts 
within the realm of Australian and New Zealand queer contexts. These may 
be texts that form the canon of queer representation and discourse in 
Australia and New Zealand, or emergent work in this area. Please email 
(queerstudiesanz /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(queerstudiesanz /at/ gmail.com)> if you are 
interested in contributing a short review of this nature.

For further information on the journal, including archived issues and 
style guides, please visit 
https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=245/.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries or concerns – we 
look forward to hearing from you.


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