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[Commlist] CFP: LGBTQ Protests: A global perspective

Thu Sep 01 16:06:07 GMT 2022





*CFP: LGBTQ Protests: A global perspective*

Call for chapter proposals

Proposals for chapters (300 words) must be sent to Dr. Paromita Pain ((paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com)>) by Oct 15, 2022, for consideration.

Mashable recently described LGBTQ activism as “bold, colorful and unapologetic.” Lesbian and gay activism may now circle the globe, but it is vastly understudied (Brown, 2009). This edited collection aims to bring together voices from different parts of the world to examine LGBTQ protests and the impact of cultural beliefs, media and sociopolitical structures, and individual and different LGBTQ behaviors on protests. Why do individuals participate in protest activities? How do cultural beliefs, personal attitudes, and subjective perception influence the potential protester? The book seeks to move beyond an oversimplified examination of queer protests and show, through the voices of activists, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer protests throughout the globe. How have struggles over LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and police violence created a sense of vulnerability that has an impact on culture and the law?

This will look at critiques, concepts, case studies of LGBTQ protests around the world.

Authors are invited to send in abstracts on associated topics that can address the issue of agency in protest and why protestors enlist different tactics to achieve their goals. Why are some protests violent and others nonviolent? When and why do activists conclude that it is better to accommodate than confront? Finally, and crucially, what are the consequences of protest movements in the LGBTQ context?

This edition welcomes work that seeks to understand media and digital protest cultures created, for, about or by queer and transgender people, activists, educators, and artists who work with or research ways to use digital means and measures to combat different forms of oppression, whether digital or otherwise.

Although LGBTQ+ people in every region of the world face marginalization and repression, their human rights have steadily advanced. Much of this advancement has happened because of the relentless protests and activism that activists and ordinary people have waged often at great personal cost to ensure that human rights are maintained and protected. August 11, 1992 may have marked the first LGBTQ protest in Delhi India but LGBTQ protests have a longer and richer history than scholarship has previously examined. Traditional media and digital platforms have all had a role to play to legitimize or diminish protest actors especially in the sphere of LGBTQ protests. More recently, in the process of opening new spaces for discussions of queer sexuality, the internet and digital technologies have facilitated, a process of connectivity that have created important nodes of identification, belonging, and support (Pullen, & Cooper, 2010). These spaces, in different parts of the world, symbolically, have evolved to become collective sites of resistance to sources of oppressive power, encouraging the active exchange of queer ideologies across distant spaces and facilitating the formation of ‘queer counterpublics’ (Soriano, 2014).How have different media and digital platforms contributed to highlighting or diminishing these protests? There is little doubt that sexual minorities can use online and traditional media to strategically contextualize their struggle as part of a transnational LGBTQ rights campaign that reverberates across national borders (Soriano, 2014).

*This collection is particularly interested in examining and learning more about LGBTQ protest and activism from different countries: *

Critiques, concepts, case studies of LGBTQ protests around the world.

How are social media and digital technologies used in the sphere of LGBT activism and empowerment

How are LGBTQ activism and protest framed and what do we learn from that framing?

Activists and their use different media to educate and mobilize audiences.

The potential of social media and how can this be further extended for LBGT activism.

LGBTQ Youth Activism and the transformative capability of digital and other media platforms

Proposals for chapters (300 words) must be sent to (paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(paromita.pain /at/ gmail.com)> by Oct 30, 2020, for consideration.

*Editor:*Paromita Pain
Assistant Professor
Donald W Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies, University of Nevada — Reno
Reno, Nevada

Email: (ppain /at/ unr.edu) <mailto:(ppain /at/ unr.edu)>

*Editor Bio *

Paromita Pain, PhD

Paromita Pain’s research focuses on alternate media and global journalism practices from feminist and LGBTQ perspectives. Interested in epistemological concerns raised by emerging forms of media that are hybrids between old and new forms, between citizen and professional news practices, she has published various book chapters on the intersection of gender and social media besides looking into areas of online commenting and uncivil behavior and its impact on journalistic practices. LGBTQ rights, themes and practices are a special area of interest which developed when she was an activist for LGBTQ rights in India.Before receiving her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, she was a journalist with The Hindu Newspaper, India’s most respected broadsheet. Her most recent publication include:https://www.routledge.com/LGBTQ-Digital-Cultures-A-Global-Perspective/Pain/p/book/9781032050003 <https://www.routledge.com/LGBTQ-Digital-Cultures-A-Global-Perspective/Pain/p/book/9781032050003>Her published work and research work can be found at: https://paromitapain.com/research/ <https://paromitapain.com/research/>


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