For this themed issue of Girlhood Studies we welcome articles that
explore images that unsettle, disrupt, disqualify and transgress
visual and affective expectations of contemporary girlhoods. We are
interested in interventions that attend to
girls-as-subjects-in-process or becomings and girlhood as a political
and temporal location tied to notions of the self. The technologies of
the self here may include multiple sensorial techniques, so in this
sense while we privilege the visual, we welcome its interruption with
the sonic, aural, oral, olfactory, touching senses that build-up the
work of self-image and self-making. We are interested in work that
investigates presentations of self that in different ways open up new
avenues to see, visualize, represent, feel and think about the girl,
and test our assumptions about how girls are seduced to qualify and
pass in normative intersecting gender/age/corporeal/class/
While we remain open to all kinds of papers on politics of the visual
and girls, we are especially interested in work on the intimate and
embodied aspect of being, estheticizing, and, perhaps, fetishizing the
girly. We ask how the girly might be normalizing, oppositional, or in
excess of both and/or perhaps how girl-as-subject-in-process can build
or challenge ideas about failure and passing. The visual travels in
time and space, through local and global imaginaries and affects that
intertwine, so we also ask what methodologies and writing modalities
are used to examine and discuss the visual, the uncertain, the open,
the affective and the embodied?
Contributions to the themed issue should engage with the question of
“the visual” and attend to the following possible themes: The visual
as a site for a politics of recognition. Narratives of
identification/
The production/repression of desire. Desire and/for difference.
Decency. Class. Social inequalities, injustice, marginality. Violence.
Popular culture. The erotic/pornographic. Futurity, imaginaries of
time. Utopia/dystopia. Consumption. Relationality/autonomy or freedom/
dispossession/ self-possession.
Guest Editors
Elina Oinas and Danai Mupotsa are guest-editing this themed issue.
Elina Oinas is Associate Professor in Development Studies at the
University of Helsinki, Finland. She is currently leading a research
consortium on young people’s political engagements in contemporary
Africa. Oinas was editor of NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and
Gender Research between 2007 and 2009 with Tutta Palin. Danai Mupotsa
is a PhD Candidate in the School of Language, Literature and Media,
and a fellow of the National Research Foundation Chair in Local
Histories, Present Realities at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research interests include popular
culture, cisualities, intimacies, race, sexuality, space and
consumption.
Article Submission
Please direct inquiries to Guest Editors Elina Oinas
(elina.oinas@helsinki.fi) and Danai Mupotsa (danai.mupotsa@gmail.com).
Please send expressions of interest and abstracts to the Guest Editors
by 1 August 2014. Full manuscripts are due 1 December 2014.
Authors should provide a cover page containing their brief
biographical details (up to 100 words), institutional affiliation(s)
and full contact information, including an email address.
Articles may be no longer than 6,500 words including the abstract (up
to 150 words), keywords (6 to 8 in alphabetical order), notes,
captions and tables, acknowledgements (if any), biographical details
(taken from the cover page), and references. Girlhood Studies,
following Berghahn’s preferred house style, uses a modified Chicago
Style. Please refer to the Style Guide on the website.
If images are used, authors are expected to secure the copyright themselves.
Warm regards,
Danai S Mupotsa
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