CFP – ARCYP – Youth, (Imaginary) Borders, and the Nation State

Youth, (Imaginary) Borders, and the Nation State

Deadline: Nov. 15, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS
Youth, (Imaginary) Borders, and the Nation State

A JOINT SESSION OF ARCYP AND ACCUTE
AT THE CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO AND WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY, WATERLOO, ONTARIO

MAY 26-29, 2012

DEADLINE: November 15, 2011

The nation is a fractured space today, constituted with various institutional and imaginary boundaries that shape experiences of belonging, identity, and childhood. Some boundaries are geographic, such as the borders between the Canadian provinces or between neighbouring countries. Some are related to language – for instance, the boundary between the “two solitudes” in Canada – or relate to the passage of time – for instance, the boundaries between childhood, adolescence and adulthood. These boundaries may be defined as limits never or hardly ever crossed, or as opportunities for youth to grow and mature. Given this, we invite papers that explore and complicate the relationship of youth to imaginary boundaries. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

young adult and children’s literature in translation and the process of translating;

young adult bilingual/ multilingual literature;

(imaginary) borders and young people’s electronic and digitally mediated texts;

young people’s experiences in other countries or provinces, and volunteering abroad;

bilingual and multilingual youth experience.

Following the instructions under Option # 1 at www.accute.ca/generalcall.html, send your 700-word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a Proposal Submissions Information Sheet, and a 100-word abstract and 50-word bio bibliographical statement, as three attachments to an email addressed to admin@arcyp.ca by November 1 2011.

NOTES: You must be a current member of ARCYP or ACCUTE to submit to this session. Rejected submissions will not be moved into the general “pool” of ACCUTE submissions.

CFP – ARCYP – Troubling Normativity: Race/Whiteness in the Popular Cultures Of Young People

Troubling Normativity

Deadline: Nov. 15, 2011

Troubling Normativity:
Race/Whiteness in the Popular
Cultures Of Young People
A JOINT SESSION OF ARCYP AND ACCUTE
AT THE CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO AND WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY, WATERLOO, ONTARIO

MAY 26-29, 2012

DEADLINE: November 15, 2011

This panel invites papers that use race/whiteness as a framing or entry point for critical inquiries into popular culture produced for, about, or by young people. How are systems of racialization, whiteness, and normativity produced and consumed, secured and maintained, or contested and countered? Do contemporary cultural industries affiliated with young people’s texts and cultures (television, music, film, video games, publishing, theatre, etc.) challenge what Stuart Hall has famously characterized as “racialised regimes of representation” (1997) and the naturalization of racial hegemony? How does race become meaningful in relation to multicultural clichés of diversity and harmony? How does race function as co-constituent with class, sexuality, and gender? Possible topics with a focus on race/whiteness in popular culture produced for, about, or by young people might include (but are not limited to) the following:

popular music (K’naan, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, etc.);

popular film (Shrek, The Princess and the Frog, etc.);

video games (Grand Theft Auto, Final Fantasy, etc.);

“tween” culture (the Obama girls, Hello Kitty, etc.);

television (Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, etc.);

literature (The Hunger Games, Twilight, etc.).

Following the instructions under Option # 1 at www.accute.ca/generalcall.html, send your 700-word proposal (or 8-10 page doublespaced paper), a Proposal Submissions Information Sheet, and a 100-word abstract and 50-word bio bibliographical statement, as three attachments to an email addressed to admin@arcyp.ca by November 1 2011.

NOTES: You must be a current member of ARCYP or ACCUTE to submit to this session. Rejected submissions will not be moved into the general “pool” of ACCUTE submissions.

CFP – ARCYP – Youth Creators, Thinkers, and Expressions of “Child Consciousness”

Youth Creators, Thinkers, and Expressions of Child Consciousness

Deadline: Nov. 15, 2011

Youth Creators, Thinkers,
and Expressions of
“Child Consciousness”
A JOINT SESSION OF ARCYP AND ACCUTE
AT THE CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO AND WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY, WATERLOO, ONTARIO

MAY 26-29, 2012

DEADLINE: November 15, 2011

For Merleau-Ponty, the danger of “dogmatic rationalism” in psychological models of development is the creation of a false dichotomy between two “impermeable” mentalities – that of the child and that of the adult – a hierarchy that fixes “adult experience within concepts such as the ‘representation of the world’” and “renders communication between the adult and the child theoretically impossible.” These quagmires are vindicated for Merleau-Ponty by the “extraordinary ‘anticipations’ of the child’s thought.” We invite papers that analyze various examples of child and youth creative and philosophical consciousness and cultural production. How do young creators and thinkers disrupt the notion that the products of their thought are defined as extraordinary for what they ‘anticipate’ rather than for what they ‘are’? How do they make permeable the division between adult and child/ youth experiences, ‘representations of the world,’ and effective knowledge? Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

young people as creators of culture and cultural expression;

young people as co-creators or collaborators;

young people as scholars, philosophers, theorists;

young people’s writing, visual art, film;

youth and digital media, such as YouTube, blogs, fan fiction, etc.;

the material conditions, dissemination, and transmission of youth cultural and philosophical thought and expression.

Following the instructions under Option # 1 at www.accute.ca/generalcall.html, send your 700-word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a Proposal Submissions Information Sheet, and a 100-word abstract and 50-word bio bibliographical statement, as three attachments to an email addressed to admin@arcyp.ca by November 1 2011.

NOTES: You must be a current member of ARCYP or ACCUTE to submit to this session. Rejected submissions will not be moved into the general “pool” of ACCUTE submissions.

Call for Articles: Supporting Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth

CFP – Special Issue of Global Studies of Childhood: Cultural and Family Contexts of Emotion Socialization

Deadline:  Sept. 15, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue of Global Studies of Childhood
Learning about emotion: cultural and family contexts of emotion socialization
Guest Editor: KATHERINE KITZMANN, University of Memphis, USA

The concept of emotion is contested and problematic and has a range of theoretical and practical implications across a variety of disciplinary fields. Parents, families, societies, communities and media impact in teaching children about emotions and in shaping children’s emotional competence or otherwise. This process of ‘emotion socialization’ unfolds in daily life, as children encounter examples of different ways of expressing and understanding emotion, that incorporate different forms in a variety of modalities, for example via talking through (or ignoring) specific examples of emotions and their manifested behaviours, and actions that demonstrate a supportive or non-supportive response to children’s emotional experiences and expressions.

This special journal issue of Global Studies of Childhood(www.wwwords.co.uk/GSCH) will focus on the ways in which emotion is manifested and responded to in different cultures. It will consider whether different discourses of childhood validate some expressions of emotion and constrain, problematize and pathologize others. We are interested in how some cultural practices associated with teaching and learning and performatively producing emotion are maintained and contested by children from a variety of different cultures. This might also consider the ways in which emotion is represented in cultural texts and how cultural knowledges, expectations and practices of emotions change across contexts, for example in homes, schools, public places or in community ceremonies. Of interest too, are the roles played by parents, families and peers in interpreting, guiding, responding to and shaping children’s emotional experiences and expressions. An important aspect of these discussions will be a consideration of the role of the ‘expert’ in interpreting and managing childhood emotions and the inculcation of what are deemed to be appropriate emotional behaviours that aim to prepare children to be socially competent in a range of cultural contexts.

Global Studies of Childhood invites papers from a range of disciplines to contribute to this critical discussion. Please send abstracts to Katherine Kitzmann:k.kitzmann@memphis.edu.

TIMELINE
August – call for papers
September 15 2011 – Extended abstract to Editor (500 to 1000 words)
September 30 2011 – Advice regarding invitation to submit full paper
November 30 2011 – Full Paper submission
December 31 2011 – Feedback to authors
February 1 2012 – Final version of paper to editor
March 2012 – publication of special edition – with proofs for correction mid-March