The Graduate Journal of Social Science (GJSS) is an
international, interdisciplinary journal, aiming at
providing examples of and discussions over pluralism in
methodology. The journal is peer reviewed and published by
the Amsterdam University Press twice a year.

For more details please look at: http://www.gjss.org

Call for Abstracts/Papers
Special Issue on:

Queer Studies: Methodological Approaches

Special issue editors: Robert Kulpa and Mia Liinason.
Special issue advisory board: Judith Halberstam, Tuula
Juvonen and Tiina Rosenberg

For some time on, queer scholars from different parts of the
world, brought to a fore the need for the
re-contextualization of the word “queer”; the need to
problematize its reception in non-English contexts, where
the word “queer” is an empty signifier without history and
negative connections. This special issue of the GJSS seeks
to assess ways in which transnational/national contexts
affect queer studies. Therefore, we would like to ask: What
impact does spatial and temporal contexts have on queer
formations and practises of story-telling? Moreover, this
special issue also acknowledges the emphasis on the mutual
interdependencies of social movements and academic
theories. We question: What are the consequences of the
political struggle for academic activity? How can we deal
with the privileged position of Western canons? How we can
think, act and write about "the political/ideological" and
"the academy"?

Welcome themes to be taken up in this special issue of GJSS
include:

Multiple genealogies of Queer Studies
Queer Studies and the future? Utopian/Anti-Utopian
perspectives
Different archives for theorising queer (feminism,
LGBT,
post-colonial -, post-communist -, economic -, geography -
studies, and others)
Queer intersectionality: gender, race, sexuality,
class,
generations, history, poverty, ...
Queer method/ologies
Transnational/national contexts and various
geo-political
possibilities of queering Queer Studies
Other related issues suggested by authors

Those interested in submitting a paper for this special
issue should send a 200 word abstract by September 30th
2007 followed by a preliminary draft within two months
(i.e. November 30th 2007).

Authors are asked to familiarize themselves with the general
profile of the journal, and to focus their papers
accordingly.

Texts are peer reviewed and acceptance decisions will be
made on the basis of the preliminary draft.

Final deadline is January 31st 2008 (7000 words maximum).

Inquiries, abstracts and submissions should be sent to
Robert Kulpa (University College London, r.kulpa@ucl.ac.uk)
or Mia Liinason (Lund Univeristy, mia.liinason@genus.lu.se).