Palgrave MacMillian seeks submissions for their anthology on queer utopias titled "Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias". The anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias and contributors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work. Submission deadline: ASAP
Call for Papers
Title: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias
Editor: Angela Jones, PhD, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York
This is a second call for papers for an important anthology on queer utopias. The project is under review with Palgrave McMillan. Editor, Burke Gerstenschlager is excited about the project. The series editors for their Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Series have sent the project out for review. In the interim, this time has allowed us to reissue the call for papers because the publisher has indicated that there is space to add additional chapters. We are excited to issue this second call for papers for additional submissions.
http://us.macmillan.com/series/CriticalStudiesinGenderSexualityandCulture
This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Contributors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work. This book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and will interrogate how homonormativity conditions many queer scholars' visions of the future and queer spaces. This book will answer the following questions: how do we define queer space? Are there queer utopias? Are people creating queer spaces? How? Where? Moreover, this work will not only focus on gay, lesbian, and transgendered spaces. It aims to explore other, less well known queer spaces. Queer individuals are becoming more visible and are building both tangible and imagined social spaces; this powerful transition is occurring before our eyes and needs to be documented.
Contributors are encouraged to consider:
1) What is queer space?
2) Are there queer utopias? How do you understand this term?
3) Are there spaces real or imagined where hegemonic heterosexist discourses cease to regulate bodies?
Please forward a letter of interest, updated CV, and a detailed abstract (250-400 words)
Please forward submissions and or any questions to: jonesa@farmingdale.edu as soon as possible.
About the Editor:
Angela Jones is currently assistant professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. Her research interests include African American historiography, social movements, gender, sexuality, and queer theory. Jones is the author of numerous scholarly publications. Her forthcoming book, The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama is being published by Routledge and will be released in the fall of 2012. Jones is the author of African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. She is also the author of numerous journal articles.
