Call for submissions

2016-11-16

Special issue of SQS Journal on Queer Healings 

The open access peer-reviewed journal SQS published by SQS – the Society of Queer Studies in Finland  has been a forum for interdisciplinary research in the field of queer studies since 2006. Now the journal invites submissions for a special issue on Queer Healings. 

The theme of Queer Healings is understood both in the meaning of to heal something or someone and to be healed. It includes the ways of thinking and acting in society, arts and culture both in the past and in the present, particularly focusing on the healing technologies and the (liminal) spaces and cultures of healing. We invite critical inquiries focusing on all kinds of questions relating to the varieties of sexuality and gender and the definitions, discussions and practices of health, sickness and well-being.

Suitable topics include (yet are not limited to):

  • Queer theoretical approaches to healing 
  • Healing traditions and histories
  • Queer cultures as times/spaces/practices/politics of healing
  • Queer healers as characters or narratives 
  • Healing memories/memories of healing
  • Arts/literature as depicting/facilitating/questioning healing
  • Body healing/bodies beyond healing & definitions of health/normality  
  • Crip theory and issues of (dis)ability
  • Medicalization 
  • Bioethics 
  • Biotechnologies 
  • Biopolitics
  • Necropolitics

  

Manuscript submissions

Please send your full manuscripts through the website of SQS.

Instructions for the manuscripts and for the submission process can be found at http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/sqs/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions 

Please submit your  manuscript no later than February 15, 2017. 

Manuscripts of articles, which will be peer reviewed, should employ the author-date reference system of The Chicago Manual of Style and not exceed 70.000 characters (including blanks). A quick guide to the citation system: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html . 

In addition to article manuscripts, also review articles and essays (max. 35.000 characters), opinion pieces and commentaries (21.000 character), as well as book reviews (max 10.000 characters), are welcomed. 

  

Information about the special issue and questions

Editors:

Tiia Sudenkaarne, University of Turku (philosophy) & Jan Wickman, Åbo Akademi (sociology)

Contact: queerhealings@gmail.com