[eccr] cfp - Queer Youth Cultures

Queer Youth Cultures

>>Editors
>>
>>Susan Driver
>>Contemporary Studies
>>Wilfrid Laurier University
>>(sdriver /at/ wlu.ca)
>>
>>Mocha Jean Herrup
>>Radio-Television-Film
>>Austin Community College
>>(herrup /at/ austincc.edu)
>>
>>We are inviting submissions for an interdisciplinary collection on queer 
>>youth cultures.  From the everyday worlds of queer youth 
>>self-representation and community involvement to spectacular displays of 
>>performative transgression, we are interested in essays that engage with 
>>the rich textures of contemporary queer youth cultural formations. We are 
>>gathering together essays that explore a broad range of queer youth 
>>cultural issues through multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives.
>>
>>Overview
>>
>>
>>Academic discourses have historically worked to exclude gay, lesbian, 
>>bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth from their research 
>>practices and theoretical frameworks.  This has resulted in a 
>>predominance of heteronormative ways of understanding youth experiences 
>>and creative cultural activities.  It has also worked to reinforce a gap 
>>between academic knowledges and the complex worlds of youth who challenge 
>>and exceed binary sex/gender/sexual categorizations.  Our aim is to 
>>expand critical thinking about youth cultures by compiling essays attuned 
>>to the specific contexts, communities and subjectivities of queer youth. 
>>Over the last decade a broad range of queer youth cultures have emerged 
>>to transform relations of production and reception, as well as expanding 
>>public spaces and textual forms through which youth make meaning for 
>>themselves.  At this historical moment it becomes important to develop 
>>tools to recognize and engage queer youth cultures in ways that ar!
>>  e respectful and supportive, and that remain open to and enabling of 
>> emerging social articulations.   Our goal is to challenge generalizing 
>> images of youth through representations and analysis of queer youth 
>> cultures that utilize detailed textual and ethnographic 
>> methods.  Reflexive forms of writing are also encouraged as a way to 
>> question and bridge relations between youth and researchers. Creative 
>> visual artwork, comics and photography will also be considered as an 
>> important element to enhance the field of queer youth cultural 
>> representation.  We are especially looking for new theoretical and 
>> methodological approaches to studying youth that enable innovative 
>> practices of interpretation.
>>
>>
>>
>>Topics
>>
>>We are interested in papers which deal especially (but
>>not exclusively) with the following topics:
>>
>>-grrrl bands
>>
>>-transgender youth
>>
>>-online identities and networks
>>
>>-community/festival organizing
>>
>>-theorizing queer youth cultures
>>
>>-youth produced video
>>
>>-film and television representations
>>
>>-grassroots activism
>>
>>-performance cultures such as drag kings, burlesque and spoken word
>>
>>-practices of self-representation
>>
>>-alternative sexual cultures
>>
>>-creative fictions by/for/about queer youth
>>
>>-queer youth visual cultures
>>
>>Submission Guidelines
>>
>>
>>Please send a 500 word abstract by November 1, 2004.   Send your 
>>submission as an email attachment in word along with a brief C.V. or bio 
>>to both editors: (sdriver /at/ wlu.ca) and (herrup /at/ austincc.edu).  Please feel 
>>free to contact us for further information.
>
>
>--
>Mary Patten
>Associate Professor
>Department of Film/Video/New Media
>School of the Art Institute of Chicago
>112 S. Michigan, #507
>Chicago, IL 60603
>email: (mpatte /at/ artic.edu)
>voice: 001.773.275.1526
>fax: 001.312.541.8070
>
>
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