Adoption & Culture publishes essays on any aspect of adoption’s intersection with
culture, including but not limited to scholarly examinations of adoption
practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, film, or any
other popular or academic representation of adoption. Adoption & Culture
accepts submissions of previously unpublished essays for review.
Adoption & Culture is the journal of The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC). ASAC promotes understanding of the experience, institution, and
cultural representation of domestic and transnational adoption and related
practices such as fostering, assisted reproduction, LGBTQ+ families, and
innovative kinship formations. ASAC considers adoptive kinship to include
adoptees, first families, and adoptive kin. In its conferences, other
gatherings, and publications ASAC provides a forum for discussion and knowledge
creation about adoption and related topics through interdisciplinary,
culture-based scholarly study and creative practice that consider many ways of
perceiving, interpreting, and understanding adoption.
Adoption
studies scholarship explores multiple aspects of adoption’s intersection with
culture including, but not limited to, scholarly examinations of adoption
practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, and film.
Adoption scholars examine discourses of adoption in all its various ways,
complicating the ways adoption engages with normative ideologies of identity,
family, culture, race, gender, nation, and citizenship.
This issue
of Adoption & Culture asks how we might use the critical study of adoption
to strategize the visual politics of kinship.
We seek essays that discuss a broad range of issues or questions. These include but are not limited to: How do
adoptive families look? How do adoptive
kin become visible in mainstream cultures?
How have queer theory, critical race studies, feminism, and gender
studies influenced the visibility or invisibility of adoptive families? First
families? Does a visible genealogy of adoptive kinship exist? Do non-normative forms of kinship necessitate
new forms of visual representation? What is at stake, politically, in
visualizing radical forms of kinship? Are there assets to invisibility? How do normalizing discourses – for example,
bio-heteronormativity – influence the appearance of adoptive kinship? Or
disappearance?
We seek new
and original essays that explore contemporary and historical visual cultures of
kinship for the purpose of interrupting, questioning, or problematizing
bio-normative and/or bio-genealogical concepts of family. Inter-disciplinary approaches are encouraged.
All essays should address issues that arise from the study of kinship in
various types of visual culture, including:
- Film (including home movies)
- Architecture and design
- Gaming and social media
- Painting
- Illustration (including investigations of the relationship between text and image)
- Photography (including family photos)
- Performance
- Digital media
- Advertising
Please
submit a 500-word proposal or abstract by 1 November 2018 to lcurzon@ua.edu.
Any questions about this special issue can be sent to Lucy Curzon at the email
address above. Authors will be notified of their accepted abstracts by 1
December 2018. Final manuscripts are due 1 April 2019.
Contact
Info:
Box 870270
Tuscaloosa
AL 35487
Contact
Email:
lcurzon@ua.edu
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