[Commlist] Call for contributions - Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation and Difference

*Call for contributions - Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, 
Representation and Difference*

This book series brings together analyses of familial and kin 
relationships with emerging and new technologies which allow for the 
creation, maintenance and expansion of family. We use the term “family” 
as a working truth with a wide range of meanings in an attempt to 
address the feelings of family belonging across all aspects of social 
location: ability, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, gender 
identity, body size, social class and beyond. This book series aims to 
explore phenomena located at the intersection of technologies including 
those which allow for family creation, migration, communication, reunion 
and the family as a site of difference. The individual volumes in this 
series will offer insightful analyses of these phenomena in media, 
social media, literature, popular culture and corporeal settings.

Possible book topics include:
• the use of technology and migration and family composition and 
disjunction; the ways that technologies may both push and pull kin 
together/apart
• the range of technology use across literal and figurative space 
including intersections of geography, race, age, poverty, gender and beyond
• the impact of technological absence: the ways that technologies may be 
taken for granted in particular environments (privileged nations; 
privileged subject positions) and may be denied or inaccessible in other 
spaces or places
• technologies of family creation and maintenance: the use of alternate 
reproductive technologies; the use of communication technologies to 
share information
• discussions of race and racialization in the context of kinship 
relationships and intersected with connections to technologies; 
hypervisibility of racism including police brutality; activist circles 
as forms of kinship
• queer family creation and representation through technology; making 
queer family visible through traditional, popular and social media; 
alternate family connections including non-normative parenting 
arrangements (more than two parents, multiple different shades of 
parenting); “new” family through donor sibling relationships
• technologies of class mobility, including the impact of smartphone 
technology on mediating/curtailing aspects of the digital divide; 
shifting family relationships through generational moves in class status
• fat family: the ways that narratives of obesity have had impacts on 
the creation and representation of family (for example: obese women who 
are denied reproductive technologies or access to international 
adoption); the ways these rhetorics have shifted differently in 
different jurisdictions; representation of fat family; intersection of 
fat and working class identities in popular culture
• trans families: both in terms of gender identity but also in terms of 
other families that “confound”— families that do not “match” one 
another, or that otherwise transgress normative models
• technologies of disability: the use of technology to enhance or 
bolster independence, the ways that disabled people are seen as 
incapable of parenting; on the other hand, the technologies which come 
into play around parenting children with disability, both prenatally and 
once children are born; representation of disability and family 
(fetishization and the perceived martyrdom of parents)

Please send inquiries to (may.friedman /at/ ryerson.ca) AND 
(silvia.schultermandl /at/ uni-muenster.de)

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