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 Adoption & Culture accepts submissions of previously unpublished essays for review.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.
Critical 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 special volume of Adoption & Culture invites new and original essays that expressly examine the portrayal of adoption in popular culture, portrayals that arguably most dramatically affect the prevalent view of adoption. Essays or proposals may address a range of media depictions and pose larger questions about the likely influences upon and effects of these. Topics might include:
- Search and reunion stories in popular media
- Infertility and ART stories in popular media
- Adoption as/in scifi, dystopian, or other alt-fic media
- Adoption on social media
- Netflix and adoption
- Adoption narrative arcs on television or its analogues
- Adoption memes/GIFs/videos
- Adoption in advertising or other marketing campaigns
- ART and other adoption technologies in popular media
- Adoption and social justice movements in popular culture
- Transracial and transnational adoptions in popular culture
- “The bad seed” or sociopathic child in popular media
- The return of children in adoption narratives in popular media
- Adoption fanfiction or other extended narrative forms
- Adoption in music, lyrics, or other musical forms
- Popular movies that present an adoption narrative
- Adoption family hagiography in popular media
- Proposals or abstracts that vary on, or interrelate, these themes are welcome.
Please submit 500-word proposal by April 30, 2020, to Martha Satz (msatz@smu.edu). Any questions about this special issue can be sent to Martha Satz at the email address above. Authors will be notified of our decision by May 30, 2020. Final manuscripts will be due Sept. 1, 2020 for peer review and to enter the vetting and editing process.
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