[Commlist] CFP Punk Passages: Punk, Ageing and Time – Call for Chapter Proposals

*/Punk Passages: Punk, Ageing and Time/**– Call for Chapter Proposals *

Writers are invited to submit chapter proposals for an edited collection 
of work exploring ageing, time and temporality in the context of punk.

Initial academic consideration of punk posited it as a youth culture and 
the positioning of punk in relation to time and historical location is 
of course commonplace in scholarship. This can be seen outside of 
academia too, for example the ‘celebration’ of the 40^th anniversary of 
punk and the associated events which took place highlight the way punk 
is often link with a particular time in our collective memory. Just as 
punk scholarship has endeavoured to deal with the notion of punk 
retaining significance in individuals’ lives ‘post-youth’, empirical 
work has built around how punk is remembered and represented. And 
yet...tensions, issues and gaps remain unaddressed.

Whilst a body of work concerned with punk and ageing has begun to be 
developed, this is still very much in its infancy. Indeed, work 
approaching punk and ageing which takes into consideration 
intersectionality (for example speaking to also how gender, 
ethnicity/race, sexuality, disability and/or class intersect with 
ageing) is extremely limited. Similar problems are found in scholarship 
focusing on how punk is remembered and represented – this might entail 
the ‘writing out’ or the minimising of particular participants’ 
involvement (Reddington 2006, Stewart 2019, Wiedlack 2015), for example, 
or the way punk historiography assumes whiteness as the 
taken-for-granted subject position in punk (Davila 2019). We clearly 
need, as Lohman and Raghunath (2019) express, a “re-examination of how 
punk has entered our collective memory and our lived experience” (189); 
particularly involving the relationship between this and marginalized 
identities. To quote Wiedlack (2015) - “it is time to complicate the 
pictures, rather than renarrate the straight white punk history of white 
middle-classness, homophobia and racism again and again” (10)

Below is a list of themes/areas which chapter proposals might consider - 
this is by no means an exhaustive list though the key focus on punk in 
relation to ageing and/ or time must be retained in any broadening 
beyond this:

  * Punk and ageing, particularly drawing upon intersectional analysis,
  * The relationship between temporality and particular concepts
    relevant to punk including, but not limited to, authenticity, DIY,
    identity, resistance, spatiality, style,
  * Punk pasts: for example, critiques/analyses of how punk has been
    posited in the past (e.g. in reference to punk’s ‘death’);
    problematising punk narratives; memory, remembering and/or forgetting,
  * Punk futures (e.g. from the perspective of those affiliated with punk),
  * Punk, ageing and/or temporality in the context of virtual spaces.

Chapter proposals which are grounded in emic perspectives are 
particularly welcomed as is work approached from critical/feminist 
methodologies and/or theoretical frameworks.

Proposals should be no longer than 500 words and e-mailed to Dr Laura 
Way at (lway /at/ lincoln.ac.uk) <mailto:(lway /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)> – please include a 
working title, abstract and your contact detail.

Scholars at any point in their career are welcome to submit a proposal. 
Chapter proposals are particularly welcome from scholars of marginalised 
identities and researchers in the Global South.

Deadline for abstracts: 1^st March 2021
Notification of outcome: 21^st March 2021


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