Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice/
Études critiques sur le genre, la culture, et la justice sociale
Call for Papers
Issue 37.1
Deadline: November 1, 2013
Author Instructions
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Manuscripts must be submitted to the Atlantis on-line system at
http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/index;
Manuscripts should not exceed 7,000 words, including references;
Use of Chicago Style (author, date) is required (see
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html and click on the ‘author-date’
button);
Manuscripts must be anonymized with no references to the author in the manuscript; if
submissions are not properly anonymized, they will be returned to the authors;
For further instructions, see the Author Guidelines at
http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.
Clusters
This issue will consist of two thematic clusters and one open topic cluster.
Cluster #1: Intimacies/Affect
Editors: Suzanne Lenon, Susanne Luhmann, Nathan Rambukkana
To intimate means to make known, to announce, but also to suggest something indirectly, to hint.
Intimate also suggests familiarity and deep acquaintance, informality and the private, the innermost and
the personal. To affect means to have an influence or effect a change, to touch, to move; it also speaks to
feeling, emotions, tendencies, labour. What both intimacy and affect share is the work of renegotiating
boundaries of the public and the private. Feminist thought and praxis have long played a foundational
role in this renegotiation by insisting, initially, that the “personal is political” and by making the case for
the importance of the epistemologies and politics of intimacy and affect in understanding people’s worlds.
Such intellectual projects seek to connect acts and spheres of intimacy and affect to larger relations of
power including neoliberal capitalism, globalization, racialization, biopolitics, and social movements – to
name but a few.
We seek contributions that consider the (re)productive work of intimacies and affect. We invite work that
engages with these two concepts (individually or together) as ways of challenging and renegotiating the
boundaries of what has come to count as public and private. What does the turn towards affect and
intimacies mean for transformative feminist thought and politics? What new questions, vocabularies,
visions, and practices does it give rise to? How does it ask us to (re)consider what counts as intimate and
affective (in)justices? What do these terms make im/possible that other terms do or do not?
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
 Queer affects/Queer intimacies
 Affective/intimate queerness
 Affective labour/Intimacies of and at work
 Affective/intimate communities
 Stranger intimacies/affects
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Intimate/affective privilege
Feminist affective economies
Feminist affects/intimacies
The intimacies and affects of feminisms
Cluster #2: Transgressing Borders/Boundaries: Gendering Space and Place
Editors: Jennifer L. Johnson and Laura Parisi
To what extent are topics of inquiry common to Women’s and Gender Studies actually questions of
spatiality? Power is negotiated after all in and across space and place, whether that is within a ‘home’, a
courtroom, a public bathroom, or the streets. Frequently, it is the transgression and maintenance of
borders and boundaries that lend themselves to a feminist analytic; an approach which we seek to
explore in this issue. Feminist geographies offer rich conceptual frameworks through which to understand
how gendered relations of power are produced in and through sexuality, race, ethnicity, and citizenship,
among many other positionalities. How does the recognition of relations of power as spatially dependent
(at least in part) shift approaches to critical inquiry? To what extent do these various relations of power
influence the production of space and place? What does the use of key concepts like scale, topography,
mapping/cartography, landscape/waterscape, counter/memories, spatial memory, spatial
interconnection, imagined communities, diaspora, and space/time contribute to feminist knowledge
production about borders, boundaries, and their transgression?
Papers may be inspired by border and boundary regulation through topics such as:
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embodiment
(re)production
un/paid work
violence
cultural and visual practices
(re)membering
political action
nationalism
transnational migration
global economies
global governance
war
(neo)colonialism
The co-emergence and intermingling of the fields of feminist geography and WGS provide an opening to
examine these relationships, and we invite empirical, theoretical and methodological contributions that
demonstrate how these fields enrich one another.
Cluster #3: Open Topic
Editors: Ann Braithwaite and Annalee Lepp
Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice/Études critiques sur le genre, la culture, et la
justice sociale also welcomes submissions on topics and themes other than those identified in the above
thematic clusters that fit with the journal’s mission statement (see
http://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/index).