[ecrea] CFP: Rethinking Makeover and Transformation short pieces wanted from PhD students and early career researchers

*CFP: Forum pieces wanted from for special issue of the International 
Journal of Cultural Studies on 'Rethinking Makeover and Transformation' 
(open to postgraduate and early career researchers)*
We are editing a special edition of the International Journal of 
Cultural Studies with the theme of 'Rethinking Makeover and 
Transformation' and are interested in receiving short submissions (up to 
1,500 words) from postgraduate and early career researchers for this 
journal.  These articles should take the form of short case studies, 
with the aim of encouraging exchange and debate.  We are looking for 
articles that engage with ideas of makeover or transformation outside of 
the more 'traditional' contexts.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:

   * Technologies, remastering, reformatting and re-releasing albums,
     films and/or television shows
   * Transformations and rebranding of political or public figures
   * The power of spoofs/satire/etc to transform perceptions/readings
     of the 'original' texts
   * The 'ex-gay' or 'post-gay' movement and public debates over the
     possibility of 'transformation'
   * PR strategies and 'reforming' public image
   * Newspaper discussion of 'criminality' and 'reform'
   * Drag performances and transformation/makeover
   * The marketing of sport as a transformative experience
   * Restoration, makeover and transformation of heritage architecture
   * Makeover/transformation of the individual's online persona
   * Competing discourses of 'transformation' and 'acceptance'
     regarding 'unusual' bodies (e.g. TV programmes such as Katie
     Piper: My Beautiful Friends (Channel 4 2011) or Beauty and the
     Beast (Channel 4 2011/12)
   * Transformation narratives within horror films

Submission information
All pieces should be 1500 words, including references and bibliography 
(using the SAGE Harvard style: 
_http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/SAGE_Harvard_reference_style.pdf_)
Please send full submissions, along with an author biography to both 
editors: Feona Attwood (_feonaattwood@gmail.com_ 
<mailto:(feonaattwood /at/ gmail.com)>) and Ruth Deller ((_r.a.deller /at/ shu.ac).uk_ 
<mailto:(r.a.deller /at/ shu.ac.uk)>) by Friday November 16, 2012.