Cultural Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research (Web); Guest editors: Pia Laskar, Linköping University; Erika Alm, Göteborg University; and Cathrin Wasshede, Göteborg University, Sweden
Proposals by: March 1, 2016
The editors: In this call we are looking for texts that explore gendered and sexual futures beyond Eurocentric and binary paradigms on the secular respectively the religious.
We invite texts investigating the function of cultural products in the making and remaking of figurations of gender and sexuality. Through focusing on cultural products we hope to be able to tap into and explore practices of communities of belonging that might take other forms than the ones easily recognized.
Cultural notions and practices of femininities, masculinities, and sexualities, undergo deep transformations globally, as they move between, and within, the local and the transnational in multiple and entangled ways. Scholarship on these changes, feminist postcolonial intellectuals argue, tend to move within a narrow developmental paradigm, in which what is defined as gendered progress as well as progress related to sexual rights, is often understood within a traditional-modernity frame in which Europe and secularism are seen as given, and perceived as the center of, and the condition for this progress. Further, Continue reading →