[ecrea] CFP: Special Issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures

CFP: Special Issue of /Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures/

*Canadian Youth and Culture in Transnational Perspective*

Guest editor: Samantha Cutrara, PhD

Abstracts due *October 13, 2017*. Final papers due *February 1, 2018*.

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*This Special Issue of /Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures/ is 
intended to extend discussion of transnationalism in ways that explore 
how young people in Canada enact, embody, extend, or resist 
transnationalism through their lives. *While transnationalism can be a 
contested concept, especially given that transnational identities may 
not be voluntary (Arat-Koc 2006, Sugiman 2006) or that a focus on 
transnationalism may take concerns away from the local environment 
(Tilley 2002), if we take the understanding of transnationalism to be 
the “experiences of individuals whose identities and relations span 
national borders,” which “involves the creation of new identities that 
incorporate cultural references from both the place of origin and the 
place of residence” (Wayland 2006, 18) then /transnationalism/ may be a 
useful theoretical concept to understand or underscore the multiple 
global and national influences that that frame the lives, texts, and 
cultures of young people living in Canada. In this way, the goal of the 
Special Issue is to explore youth identities, cultures, and texts in 
ways that expand what we know of “Canadianness” to include the 
transnational links, relations, and resistances that frame and define 
the lives of young people in Canada.


Steven Vertovec (1999) identifies that /transnationalism/ has been 
written about six different ways: 1) social morphology, 2) form of 
consciousness, 3) mode of cultural production, 4) avenue of capital, 5) 
site of political engagement, and 6) reconstruction of place. With a 
focus on transnationalism in any of these six ways, this special issue 
of /Jeunesse**/invites articles that provide a response to the 
question:  in what ways do young people in Canada express or contest 
transnational identities and/or experiences through their interactions, 
practices, cultures, and/or texts?


In this issue, we are interested in the historical, contemporary, and 
future imaginings of or resistance to transnationalism in the lives of 
youth in Canada. Topics may include:


·Youth’s experiences and identification with transnationalism in Canada 
(i.e. negotiation of global and local cultures and texts; cross-nation 
identification of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit youth; site-specific 
identification, such as in responding to the question “where are you 
really from?”; performance of nationality/nationalism)

·Transnational participation in global culture(s) (i.e. movies, music, 
sports, fashion, video games, online community spaces, etc.)

·Cultures and texts of young peoples’ physical or virtual transnationalism

·Textual (re)production for or by youth demonstrating and/or scaffolding 
transnationalism

·Schooling as a site of transnational encounter

·Youth participation in transnational activism (i.e. Transnational 
Indigenous Peoples Movement, #BlackLivesMatter, Me-to-We, etc.)

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***Timeline*

·Abstracts are due *October 13, 2017*

·Short-listed papers will be notified on or around *November 3, 2017*

·Final papers due* February 1, 2018*

·Peer-review: February-May 2018

·Revisions: May-August 2018

·Publication: Fall/Winter 2018

*Inquiries*

·On Special Issue: Samantha Cutrara, Guest editor: 
(Samantha.Cutrara /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(Samantha.Cutrara /at/ gmail.com)>

·On /Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures: / Lauren Bosc, Managing 
Editor: (l.bosc /at/ uwinnipeg.ca) <mailto:(l.bosc /at/ uwinnipeg.ca)>

*Further information about submission guidelines is available at: 
**http://www.jeunessejournal.ca* <http://www.jeunessejournal.ca/>**

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*References*

Arat-Koc, Sedef. 2006. "Whose Transnationalism? Canada, 'Clash of 
Civilizations' Discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians." In 
/Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada/, edited by Vic  
Satzewich and Lloyd Wong, 216-240. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Sugiman, Pamela. 2006. "Unmaking a Transnational Community: Japanese 
Canadian Families in Wartime Canada." In /Transnational Identities and 
Practices in Canada/, edited by Vic  Satzewich and Lloyd Wong, 52-70. 
Vancouver: UBC Press.

Tilley, Virginia Q. 2002. "New Help or New Hegemony? The Transnational 
Indigenous Peoples' Movement and ‘Being Indian’ in El Salvador." 
/Journal of Latin American Studies/ 34 (3):525-554. doi: 
10.1017/S0022216X0200651X.

Vertovec, Steven. 1999. "Conceiving and Researching Transnationalism." 
/Ethnic and Racial Studies/ 22 (2):447-462.

Wayland, Sarah V. 2006. "The Politics of Transnationalism: Comparative 
Perspectives." In /Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada/, 
edited by Vic  Satzewich and Lloyd Wong, 18-33. Vancouver: UBC Press.


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