Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (JILAS)

Petición de colaboraciones Masculinities and violence in Spain And Latin America The December 2006 edition of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (JILAS) will be a monograph dedicated to the issue of masculinity and violence in Spain and Latin America and will be edited by Jeff Browitt, Stewart King and Alfredo Martínez Expósito. Papers are invited in Spanish, Portuguese, or English from scholars working in any field in which the nexus between masculinity and violence (physical, sexual, psychological, emotional, symbolic) is explored. We welcome papers from activists and from academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences; we particularly welcome papers which are inter-disciplinary in approach and make a critical use of contemporary theories of gender, power, and violence. The deadline for submission of papers is May 30, 2006. Papers must be no longer than 8000 words and must conform to the JILAS Style Guide: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/jilas/styleguide.htm Approaches may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: media representations of violence, literary/filmic/artistic representations of violence, contemporary music and video/masculinity/violence, masculinity/violence/popular culture, domestic, intra-familiar violence, legal/juridical implications of masculine violence, power/violence/masculinity, masculinity/nationalism/violence, masculinity/terrorism/violence, female collusion in masculine violence, religion/masculinity/violence, the patriarchal state and violence, colonialism and violence, masculinity/violence/class, masculinity/violence/race, masculinity/violence/poverty, violence and gangs, reversals and variations of the 'masculine-perpetrator versus female-victim' mode. Submissions are to be sent to one of the editors below by no later than 30 May 2006: Alfredo Martínez Expósito E-mail: a.martinez@uq.edu.au Director of Postgraduate Studies and Reader in Spanish President, Association for Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/index.html?page=26229&pid=26220 School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland 4072 Australia

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