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> Call for papers: JGLR Queer Sexualities Issue
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> Call for papers: JGLR Queer Sexualities Issue
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> Call for Papers Date: 2011-07-31
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-31
> Announcement ID: 185575
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> Jindal Global Law Review
> VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2, MARCH 2012
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> The Jindal Global Law Review (JGLR) is the flagship law journal of the
> Jindal Global Law School of the O.P. Jindal Global University. The JGLR
> was first published in 2009 and currently has three issues in print and
> one under production. JGLR is available online on LexisNexis. Since its
> second issue JGLR has been designed thematically to lend context and a
> degree of intellectual consistency to its contents. The second issue of
> the JGLR confronted conceptions of "Legal Pluralism", the third tackled
> the issues of the "Changing Role of Law in Asia", and the fourth focuses
> on "Indian Public Law: Investigations and Imaginations".
>
> JGLR now invites contributions for its fifth issue themed:
>
> Rethinking Queer Sexualities, Law and Cultural Economies of Desire
>
> Issue Editors: Dipika Jain Oishik Sircar
>
> It would not be too romantic to call this 'The Decade of Sex Rights'. Over
> the past ten years unprecedented legal developments have marked the
> recognition of the human rights of sexually marginalized people
> internationally: in 2006 the Norwegian statement at the UN Human Rights
> Council received support from 54 states; in 2007 the Yogyakarta Principles
> (though not international law) was adopted as a comprehensive charter of
> sexual rights guarantees; 2009 saw the UN General Assembly pass the
> Resolution on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; and in
> 2011 over 80 countries supported a US joint statement to end acts of
> violence on the basis of sexual orientation. These developments have had
> parallel avatars in the form of decriminalization of anti-sodomy laws
> within national jurisdictions, notably the Lawrence and Garner case in the
> US (2003), and two historic judgments from South Asia: the Blue Diamond
> Society case in Nepal (2008), and the Naz Foundation case in India (2009).
> In May 2011, a controversial anti-homosexuality law that attracted the
> death penalty as punishment was shelved by the Ugandan parliament after a
> concerted effort by human rights and sexual rights groups from across the
> world.
>
> These celebratory moments for the Queer movement have also been
> accompanied by the brutal rise of crony capitalism, the perverse
> consequences of the war on terror, the institutionalization of the
> industry-military complex, and the birth of a 'new' civil society, in this
> context the "Gay International" (Massad 2002): all of these armed with the
> virtues of liberalism and its vicissitudes in marketism, secularism,
> masculinism, nationalism, legalism and an unflinching belief in corporate
> globalization's magical ability to turn former Queer outlaws into
> entrepreneurial and consumptive citizens, provided they play by the rules
> of the state-market nexus.
>
> The spate of legal recognitions is socially manifest most powerfully in
> our cultural and reproductive economies. Queers now occupy central screen
> space in several popular cultural representations like Dostana and Queer
> Eye for the Straight Guy, and have become targets for marketing campaigns
> that promote everything from queer-friendly clothing to real estate to
> tourist destinations to wedding planners to adoption agencies to surrogacy
> clinics and sperm banks. Queer subjects are now being transformed from
> figures of death – as primary vectors of AIDS – to figures of life and
> productivity – as homonormative subjects who reproduce heteronormativity
> through demands for the legal recognition of gay marriage (Puar 2007).
>
> Reponses to rights demands of Queer people are being met by the enactment
> of laws and economic policies, and states, particularly non-western, seem
> to favourably consider their claims to live up to the civilizational
> marker of being an evolved and progressive polity. In effect, while the
> borders of citizenship are expanding to include Queer subjects, the
> process of inclusion is also resulting in making them engage in an
> exercise of privatized self-governance – where the trade-off is between
> recognition of sexual citizenship in the public sphere, and in return the
> promise to conform to heteronormative governance tactics in the private
> (Cossman 2007). It isn't a surprise that major legal decisions
> decriminalizing anti-sodomy laws have used the 'privacy' argument to
> depoliticize the radical nature of Queer organizing. On the other hand,
> public visibility of Queer collectivization, particularly pride marches,
> is increasingly getting corporatized.
>
> How does one explain the coexistence of the promise and contingent feel of
> Queer emancipation and the rise of insidious forms of corporeal and
> structural violence on the Queer body? What prompts the belief of many
> Queer rights groups in the law, when it is the very body of knowledge that
> legitimizes violence against them? Can rights guarantees de-historicise
> the experiences of Queer resistance? Are Queer movements becoming
> masculinist, racist, casteist and Islamophobic? Do they reproduce gender,
> caste and race hierarchies while claiming to dismantle sexual ones? Are
> there idealized notions of the Queer body? Does Queer subjectivity embody
> disabilities? How can such experiences of embodiment help us imagine
> sexuality and disability differently? Should we celebrate 'The Decade of
> Sex Rights' or be cautious and contemplative about the slippery slopes of
> our locations and strategies? Can there be a right-wing Queer? What are
> the connections between sexual cultures and sexual economies that define
> the contours of the Queer revolution today? Is there a revolution
> actually? Can 'Queer' be de-provincialized as a move towards building
> solidarity across other locations of sexual marginality, particularly sex
> work? Does Queer theory mark the end of Feminist theory? If not, how are
> they encountering each other? How do Queers negotiate between conformity
> and subversion in their visual representations in the cultural economy?
> What happens to "sexual subalterns" (Kapur 2005) who do not possess the
> currency of engaging in QueerSpeak? On what terms do they join the
> after-party of decriminalization? How does one speak about Queer
> emancipation beyond the liberal legalese of rights? How does disease and
> desire interact within a heteronormative political economy? How do we read
> nationalism and capitalism into the methods of Queer organizing today?
> What would a radical Queer politics look like? What constitutes a
> "counter-heteronormative" (Menon 2007) Queer utopia (Munoz 2009)?
>
> These questions and the concerns shared above emerge from an understanding
> of the present moment in the life and times of Queer struggles – both in
> the metropole and the postcolony – as one where new intimacies are
> recognized and forged – be it solidarity between disparately located
> sexual rights groups or alliances between agendas of corporatization,
> communalization and militarization. The moment is also characteristic of
> old desires resurfacing – be it the legalistic desires for equality and
> justice, the humanist desire for dignity, or the orientalist desire of
> liberating the postcolonial Queer from barbaric cultures. Keeping these
> problematics in mind, this issue of JGLR proposes to engage in a rigorous
> self-reflexive critique of the Queer movements' engagements,
> confrontations, and negotiations with modernity and its investments in
> liberalism and legalism, with the objective of queering the ethics of our
> Queer politics.
>
> Submissions
>
> JGLR publishes cross-disciplinary works that aim to push the limits of
> traditional scholarship. For this issue we welcome contributions that can
> take the shape of academic writings (articles, review essays), activist
> reflections (comments, field notes), creative interventions (art work,
> photo essays). Contributions need not strictly adhere to the theme note
> above, as long as they resonate with the theme, and are committed to the
> political project at hand. Contributors who disagree with the theme
> description are also welcome to send in their submissions, which can get
> included as counterpoints to enable a dialogue across the pieces that will
> finally appear.
>
> Articles/ essays should be of 8,000 to 10,000 words; comments/ notes and
> review essays should be of 4,000 to 5,000 words (including footnotes/
> references). JGLR follows the Bluebook style of citations and it is
> recommended that contributors follow it.
>
> Submissions should be mailed as MS Word *.doc, *.docx or OpenOffice *.odt
> files in Times New Roman, font size 12, double spacing. Please do not
> email PDFs.
>
> A set of books and films are available for review. Those interested need
> to write to the editors requesting a list, or with their specific
> preferences.
>
> Timeline
>
> Contributors should email a 500 word abstract at the email addresses
> provided below by July 30, 2011. Those who have completed or
> work-in-progress manuscripts are welcome to send them instead of
> abstracts. The editors are happy to discuss an idea before submission.
>
> Decisions on selected abstracts/ manuscripts will be announced by August
> 15, 2011.
>
> Full submissions are due by October 31, 2011. Since JGLR follows a
> double-blind peer review process it is imperative that contributors stick
> to the deadlines.
>
> Please mail your contributions/ questions to: osircar@jgu.edu.in and
> djain@jgu.edu.in, with a copy to jglr@jgu.edu.in.
>
> Please mark your subject line as: 'JGLR Queer Issue'.
>
> Oishik Sircar/ Dipika Jain
> Jindal Global Law School
> O.P. Jindal Global University
> Sonipat-Narela Road
> Haryana
> India
> Email: osircar@jgu.edu.in
>
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