[Commlist] Call For Proposals: Unlikely - Journal for Creative Arts Issue 9: RESISTANCE

Please find the call for proposals for the Unlikely Journal 
<https://unlikely.net.au/> issue on Resistance.



*Unlikely - Journal for Creative Arts Issue 9: RESISTANCE*

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*Call for Proposals: Proposals due 1 May 2022*

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*Guest Editors:*

Melody Ellis (RMIT University)

Kim Munro (University of South Australia) ((Kim.Munro /at/ unisa.edu.au))

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*ABOUT*

**Foucault writes, “Where there is power, there is resistance” (1990, 
95). To resist—from its most modest quotidian expression to large-scale 
community action—implies action. To resist might be to stand one’s 
ground and refuse to act as one is being told one must. Or to be unruly, 
to break the rules, to experiment and to push the boundaries.

We might characterise resistance as that revolutionary impulse that 
Audre Lorde writes about, “not as a one-time event” but rather as 
“always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change 
in established, outgrown responses” (1984, 140-1).

To resist is often to challenge the status quo. It is to challenge 
entrenched power dynamics and to fight injustice. It might also include 
an insistence on interspecies inclusivity that rejects the traditional 
categories of human and nonhuman. As Donna Haraway has argued, “Revolt 
needs other forms of action and other stories of solace, inspiration and 
effectiveness” (2016, 49).

To consider the term resistance, then,  is to engage with broader 
questions of power, disobedience, rebellion, refusal, and objection.  It 
is to be reminded of long (sometimes forgotten, sometimes ignored) 
histories of activism for civil, social, and environmental rights. In 
Australia, and other countries with histories of colonisation or 
occupation, resistance takes on additional meaning as we are faced 
with the ever-present and complex legacies of exploitation, control and 
oppression.

As creative practitioners, there are various ways we might seek to 
resist and indeed come up against resistance in our work, many of which 
counter easy definitions. For example, Stephen Muecke has named 
deflection, interruption, creation, destruction and disappearance as 
just some ways of enacting resistance (2020).

How might we understand the various and intersecting critical concerns 
of resistance? What is resistance as a creative act? Or, as Rosi 
Braidotti asks, “how can we work towards socially sustainable horizons 
of hope, through creative resistance?” (2019, 156). This issue of 
Unlikely responds to the relationship between creative practices and/as 
resistance.

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*THEMES*

Themes might include, but are not limited to:

●Co-creative and collaborative practices as resistance

●Futurism (Afro, Indigenous etc.) as resistance to the dominance of doom 
narratives

●Practices of care in creative contexts

●Reframing dominant epistemologies through creative interventions

●Play and humour as resistance

●Creative acts of refusal

●Movement and dance

●Queer methodologies

●Other-than-human perspectives

●Quotidian forms of resistance

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*FORMAT*

The peer-reviewed edition will coincide with a series of public programs 
and events held in July 2023 across multiple sites in Adelaide. We also 
invite events which are organised interstate and internationally that 
form part of the broader network of  activities around themes of resistance.

Contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following forms:

●An event or action organised in your local area (with documentation and 
research statement 1000 words)

●Scholarly article (4000-6000 words)

●Creative written piece which may include video, audio, images, text 
(3000-4000 words)

●Audio, video and multimedia pieces (with research statement 1000 words)

●Interview or conversation (2000-3000 words)

●Performance (plus documentation and research statement 1000 words)

Creative researchers in art, performance, film, writing, audio and 
interdisciplinary practices are encourage to apply

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*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & TIMELINE*

●*Submit proposal: 1 May 2022*

Abstract which specifies the theme and format (300 words) plus short bio 
(100 words). Use _this form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWjwtKWe-BaPqkDuTN-wTt6GGnhphrViRImNbSeeqZoyiphw/viewform?usp=sf_link>_ to 
submit

●*Notification of Acceptance: *1 June 2022

●*Submission of draft: *1 November 2022

●*Peer-review complete:* 1 February 2023

●*Final Submission:* 15 March, 2023

●*Expected Publication:* 1 July 2023 (launch 5-6 July)

*no payment from the authors will be required




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