The Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies (IGWS) at the American University in Cairo is soliciting articles for the Fall 2011 issue of our graduate school publication, Surfacing: An interdisciplinary Journal on Gender in the Global South.
We are interested in receiving work on the inter-relationships between “Activism, Gender and Visual Strategies in the Global South.”
Representation of the visual (and what is deemed non-visual) have discursive affects on understanding different identities, political issues, and imaginations of social justice. Our focus is on the How: techniques and tools of visuality, both old and new, indigenous and foreign, digital and analog, expensive and cheap, are used to promote awareness and make change. How have activist, artists, communities in the ‘Global South’ contributed to the international pool of knowledge and experience in visual media? In what ways are visual projects (films, demonstrations, street art, etc.) in or about the ‘Global South’ disrupting and reinventing normative perceptions of gender? How does the visual engage and maintain interest in a social movement or cause? What are the limits and possibilities involved in certain social justice projects?
Related topics include (but are not restricted to):
- Reviewing the role art plays in contributing to postcolonial agency and reconstruction of gender.
- Confronting and subverting media censorship.
- Digital storytelling by disenfranchised communities.
- Visual strategies of civil disobedience, such as theatre performance at public protests.
- Representing “others”: religious, linguistic, ethnic economic and social differences in gender rights discourse.
Graduate students, educators, artists and activists are encouraged to apply. Surfacing welcomes academic studies, field notes, and critical essays between 5000-8000 words in length which will be subject to peer-review. We also invite photo essays, manifestos, film reviews, art festivals/exhibits and event reviews that promote social change. These pieces should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words and would preferably include accompanying images, videos and hyperlinks.
To contribute to this issue of Surfacing, kindly send your abstract (250-500 words) by Oct 7, 2010 to Surfcing@aucegypt.edu.
All abstracts submitted will be reviewed by Surfacing’s editorial collective and are subject to approval. Once an abstract is approved, contributors will have to submit their piece no later than Dec 2, 2010 for peer review. Submissions are only accepted in English.
Surfacing is open to creative topics and approaches, so please feel free to send an email if you are uncertain as to whether your piece fits in these parameters.
More information here.
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