Klicktipp: The Journal of Autoethnography (Online Journal) // CfP: Queer(ing) Kinships: Using Autoethnography to Uncover the Realities of Heterosexism and Cissexism; by: 30.06.2020

The Journal of Autoethnography (JoAE) (Web)

The Journal of Autoethnography (JoAE) is a refereed, international, and interdisciplinary journal devoted to the purposes, practices, and principles of autoethnography. This is a form of qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.

JoAE publishes scholarship as well as reviews that foregrounds autoethnography as a method of inquiry; highlights themes and issues of past and contemporary autoethnographic research; discusses theoretical, ethical, and pedagogical issues in autoethnography; identifies future directions for autoethnography; and highlights innovative applications of autoethnography.

CfP: Queer(ing) Kinships: Using Autoethnography to Uncover the Realities of Heterosexism and Cissexism

Proposals by: 30.06.2020 (Web)

This proposed forum uses autoethnography to bring the ‚walls‘ we encounter (Ahmed, 2017) as queer folx to life. Contributors will demonstrate the institutional absence of queerness, particularly as it interacts with other aspects of social location and identity, through the deeply personal impact(s) of these broader cultural erasures and dismissals. In so doing, contributors will also identify the ways we resist these erasures such as queer family making.

In this way, autoethnography proves an ideal method for revealing heterosexist and cissexist discriminatory mechanisms on a variety of levels including, but not limited to, the interpersonal, state/federal, medical, and judicial as well as the opportunities for social justice interventions than can improve the livability of queer lives. This forum will prioritize intersectional considerations of queer experiences that engage with additional aspects of identity such as: nationality, (dis)ability, class status, race, and religion, among others.

Contributors are asked to:

  • Bring the experiences of queerness into focus through a variety of intersectional andinterdisciplinary autoethnographies
  • Demonstrate the need for cultural change and social justice interventions related tovarious dimensions of queer existence in order to improve queer livability
  • Bring to light the assumptions that accompany kinship formations/creations anddemonstrate how these assumptions are informed by vectors of oppression
  • Expand the category of queer kinship and demonstrate additional modes of queerresistance to heterosexism and cissexism

The JoAE is an interdisciplinary journal and this forum welcomes a wide range of multi and interdisciplinary contributions that utilize autoethnography in diverse formats. Submissions that prioritize addressing multifaceted, intersecting, and divergent components of identities and experiences related to heterosexism and cissexism are encouraged.

Proposals will be evaluated for originality, contribution to the use of autoethnography to examine structural forms of discrimination, and how proposed pieces fit together. Potential contributors are invited to submit an abstract (250-500 words) of their proposed contribution to guest editor Jocelyne Bartram Scott at JB.Scott@ttu.edu by June 30, 2020.

Invitations to submit will be sent by July 15, 2020 and complete manuscripts of 1,500-2,000 words will be due by October 16, 2020 to be distributed for peer review. The anticipated publication date is in 2021. Additional journal information, including forum submission information, can be found here.

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