[genderstudies] Interdisciplinary online journal invites graduate students to submit work for publication: "Thinking Activism" Deadline 1/1

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Trans-Scripts CFP: "Thinking Activism" (Deadline: Jan. 1, 2013)

Trans-Scripts – an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and
Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine – invites graduate
students to submit their work for publication. The theme of the third
volume is “Thinking Activism.”

Activism can take many forms; as an intellectual labor, it challenges
current structures of knowledge production and has the potential to
reinvent the university’s role within and against the cultures that sponsor
it. To that end, we seek submissions in the humanities and social sciences
that focus on the productive intersections of scholarship (what some might
call “theory”) and activism (what some might call “practice”), as well as
submissions that address the differences between these two modes of
thinking and doing.

The popular democratic protests of the last few years make it all the more
crucial that we address the ways in which our own positionality or
privilege is enabled by systems of power that actively work to dispossess
people. It is important, now more than ever, for academic scholarship to
address its relationship to activism, in an attempt to provide new meaning
to the purpose and direction of academic research. The concerns outlined
here have produced and are productive of critical scholarship in a vast
range of disciplines, including literature, law, medicine, rhetoric,
anthropology, gender studies, sociology, English, economics, history,
political science, and critical race studies, to name a few.

Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

- Historical or theoretical examinations of activist movements, strategies,
and tactics
- Coalition building across time, space, and issue areas; transnational
networks of scholars and activists
- Post-recession governmental austerity measures and their social effects
- The privatization of higher education and student (financial)
dispossession in the United States as well as abroad, where student
movements, like the Chilean student protests (2011-2012), continue to
demand educational reform.
- Conservative activism (i.e. the Tea Party) and the academy
- Social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) and social justice
- Police brutality, including the limits and potentialities of law
enforcement reform
- Radical visions for peace and public safety
- Rhetoric and democratic participation
- Immigration policy and reform
- Sexual violence
- Gender (in)equality, particularly in light of recent attempts to
legislate women's bodies and healthcare in the United States, as well as
its instantiations in different local contexts abroad
- Marriage (in)equality, LGBT rights, and other homonormative forms of
inclusion
- Significant budget cuts to social services, like those we have seen in
the UK
- Religious discrimination and violence
- The relationship between text and critic
- The move towards public writing in Composition Studies
- Anthropology’s reflexive turn and other questions regarding the ethics of
participant-observation (ethnography)
- Action-research methodologies
- Poverty and homelessness, particularly in light of recession-era global
increases
- Death penalty debates
- Affirmative Action debates
- The personal as political, and other phenomenological extensions of
feminist theory
- Protest as performance (and vice versa)
- Identity politics and its critiques
- Medical-Industrial Complex and/or Patient Advocacy
- Ability as a category of analysis / The rise of Disability Studies
- Public space and free speech
- Critical Pedagogy and its discontents
- An examination of what is or should be the relationship between the
community and the university
- Broad trends of anti-intellectualism or (conversely) academic
exceptionalism
- Academic publication and the public sphere (i.e. academic freedom in
publicly-funded universities)
- Thought crimes; the (literal) policing of radical ideology, both inside
and outside of institutionalized educational environments

Trans-Scripts welcomes all submissions that engage topics related to
activist-scholarship or activism more broadly. They may, but certainly need
not, address the examples listed above. Submissions need not conform to any
disciplinary or methodological criteria. They need only be original, well
researched, and properly cited in MLA style. English language contributions
from all universities in all countries will be considered. In addition, we
welcome contributions from independent scholars who are not affiliated with
any formal institution.

Faculty Contributors

In addition to selected student work, renowned academics will contribute
editorial pieces, offering students the chance to place their work in
conversation with experts in various fields. Past contributors have
included Étienne Balibar, Hortense Spillers, Lee Edelman, and Roderick
Ferguson.

Submission Guidelines and Review Process

The deadline for submission is January 1, 2013. All submissions should be
written in English. The total word count should be between 3,000 and 12,000
words, including footnotes. Explanatory footnotes should be kept to a
minimum.

All pieces should be submitted as a word document attached in an email to
transscriptsjournal at gmail.com. The email should include your name,
institution, program/department, and an email address at which you can be
contacted. Any queries may be directed to the same email address. Please
also include a short abstract of less than 300 words describing the content
and argument of the piece.

Each piece will be reviewed by both members of the editorial collective and
one of the journal’s faculty advisors from the relevant discipline(s).
Pieces accepted for publication will then be returned to the author with
editorial suggestions. The editors will do all they can to give authors as
much time as possible to make changes to their submissions after review.
cfp categories:
african-american
american
cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches
ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies
ethnicity_and_national_identity
film_and_television
gender_studies_and_sexuality
general_announcements
humanities_computing_and_the_internet
interdisciplinary
journals_and_collections_of_essays
modernist studies
poetry
popular_culture
postcolonial
religion
rhetoric_and_composition
theatre
theory
travel_writing
twentieth_century_and_beyond


Trans-Scripts, an interdisciplinary online journal in the Humanities and
Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
contact email:
shadee.malaklou at gmail.com or transscriptsjournal at gmail.com
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