[Commlist] CFP: 'gender and transnational media' - A special issue of Feminist Media Studies

Call for Papers: ‘gender and transnational media’
/A special issue of Feminist Media Studies/

Co-edited by Jilly Boyce Kay (School of Media, Communication and 
Sociology, University of Leicester, UK) & Justine Lloyd (Department of 
Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia)
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Forthcoming June 2021 (see full info on all dates below)*

As Michele Hilmes has recently argued, broadcasting, while being heavily 
controlled by nation-states from its inception in the early twentieth 
century, had an unprecedented cultural capacity to transgress and defy 
national borders. In this aspect, the legacy of broadcasting is a 
transnational cultural economy that continues into the present (Hilmes 
2012: 2). As Hilmes goes onto describe, the role of gender in these 
transnational media circuits is potentially politically disruptive. 
Contestations over gender have not only added to growing pressures on 
elite cultures and established power dynamics, but have intersected with 
other important struggles, to the extent that popular media have become 
“a means of acknowledging and addressing [inequalities] while uniting 
the citizenry not only within national boundaries but across them” 
(Hilmes 2012: 84).

This special issue therefore extends from Hilmes’ historical focus on 
transnationalism’s role within the broadcasting cultures of the UK and 
USA. It builds on recent scholarship on transnational gendered media 
cultures (Sreberny 2001; Kim 2010, Mankekar 2015, Hegde 2014) and 
visibilities (Hegde 2011), including within Feminist Media Studies (for 
example, Imre et al. 2009), to bring together recent scholarship that 
works against the grain of national histories.

This special issue of Feminist Media Studies will profile work on media 
from scholars inside and outside the academy. We are particularly 
interested in papers which consider how mediated practices intersect 
with political contexts and afford diverse kinds of interventions in 
issues of social justice. We welcome abstracts engaging with 
transnational media and gender including in the following contexts:

·      Social media and transnational feminism

·      Gendered cultural forms within transnational activist networks

·      Transnational film cultures and feminist praxis

·      Decolonisation and gender as explored in media

·      Circulation of gendered images and affects within and outside 
national polities

·      Translations of gender and genre across regional media markets

·      Indigenous and first nations media and questions of gender

·      Critiques of contemporary forms of orientalism within global 
media cultures from a gendered perspective

As well as engaging with the special issue’s theme all articles must (a) 
comply with the general submission requirements, (b) address the central 
concerns of the journal, which is to bring together scholars, 
professionals and activists from around the world to engage with 
feminist issues and debates in media and communication, and (c) be of 
relevance to a wide international and multidisciplinary readership (see 
below for the Journal’s aims and scope).


*Key dates: *

·      30 November 2019: deadline for abstracts (350 words) and 
biographical note (200 words)

·      mid-December 2019: authors notified of outcome of abstracts and 
some invited to submit full articles. NB: All full articles will go 
through peer review, so acceptance of an abstract is not a guarantee of 
publication

·      15 March 2020: deadline for full articles of 7000 words 
(including references)

·      End of March 2020: all full articles sent for peer review

·      mid-June 2020: deadline for return of peer reviews to editors

·      end of July 2020: articles returned to authors for revision; 
authors of rejected articles notified

·      end of September 2020: articles returned to editors for final 
acceptance

·      end of November 2020: accepted articles forwarded for copyediting

·      end of April 2021: accepted articles begin appearing as 'articles 
in press', if authors respond in a timely manner to copyediting queries

·      June 2021, special issue published as Feminist Media Studies, Vol 
21, Issue 4.


*Submission instructions:
*
Please submit 350-word abstracts here by the closing date of 30 November:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/2AbJqu19QTGexAKJLPII

Please save your 350-word abstract and 200-word biographical note both 
within one word document named in the following format:

Authorlastname_Papertitle_FMSSI.doc

For example, if the author was Justine Lloyd and the paper was titled 
‘International Public Broadcasting and Women’, the word document would 
be named thus:

Lloyd_Internationalpublicbroadcastingandwomen_FMSSI.doc

Queries about the special issue can be directed to Justine Lloyd 
(Justine.Lloyd /at/ mq.edu.au) <mailto:(Justine.Lloyd /at/ mq.edu.au)>.

*Journal Aims and Scope
*
Feminist Media Studies provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum 
for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and 
communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, 
cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions and analysis of 
sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new 
media technologies. The journal invites contributions from feminist 
researchers working across a range of disciplines and conceptual 
perspectives. The journal offers a unique intellectual space bringing 
together scholars, professionals and activists from around the world to 
engage with feminist issues and debates in media and communication. Its 
editorial board and contributors reflect a commitment to the 
facilitation of international dialogue among researchers, through 
attention to local, national and global contexts for critical and 
empirical feminist media inquiry. When preparing your paper, please 
click on the link ‘Instructions for Authors’ on the Feminist Media 
Studies website (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms 
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms>) which provides guidance on paper 
length, referencing style, etc. When submitting your paper, please do 
not follow the link ‘Submit Online’ as special issue papers are handled 
directly via email with the special issue Editors.

*Peer Review Policy*

All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, 
based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least 
two scholars.

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