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<p class="MsoTitle"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">CALL
FOR PAPERS/CONVOCATORIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoSubtitle"><b>“MASCULINITIES AND VIOLENCE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoSubtitle"><b><span style=""> </span>IN SPAIN AND
LATIN AMERICA”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText3"><span style="font-weight: normal;" lang="EN">The
December
2006 edition of the <i>Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies</i>
(<i>JILAS</i>)
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 <i>JILAS</i> Style
Guide:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/jilas/styleguide.htm">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/jilas/styleguide.htm</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It has been problematically argued that violence
is
primarily attached to the masculine and knows no limits in terms of
age, class,
race, ethnicity or nationality. In contemporary Hispanic/Latino
societies, as
in many others, while women are sometimes complicit in domestic
violence (abuse
of children or homicidal revenge against spouses), it is <i>masculine</i>
violence that is ubiquitous and rampant, whether in the domestic sphere
of
spousal and child abuse, in sexual aggression, or in the public sphere
of
extortion, robbery, gangs, sport, war and state violence.<b> </b><span
style="">It has also been suggested that specific acts
of violence such as terrorism, sabotage, and bullying are
overwhelmingly
performed by men.<b> </b></span>What role does masculinity play in
instigating/condoning violence? What role does violence play in
defining
masculinity? How is the nexus between masculinity and violence
portrayed,
condoned, apologised for, challenged or simply ignored in media, art,
sport,
schooling, the military, legal codes and state institutions? </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many forms of violence are intimately linked to
patriarchal
culture and the historical residues of the now redundant divisions of
labour,
which hitherto had prescribed hunting and military action to males,
while women
were restricted to the affective and nurturing functions of the
domestic
sphere. Is masculinity now in transition then to more acceptable,
non-violent
forms of expression or indeed in transition to oblivion, along with
traditional
notions of femininity, or are we witnessing a recrudesence of male
violence in
the context of neo-liberal, global reordering, the silencing of
progressive
thought and the intensification of the security state? What are the
rituals of
masculinity that perpetuate violence? What is their discourse? What,
then, are
the cultural and symbolic representations of masculinity and violence
in both
historical and contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies? Is
there a
particular Hispanic masculinity bequeathed to both modern Spain and
Latin
America, which is imbued with violent tendencies, or is that a damaging
stereotype? Do progressive, armed revolutionary movements promise to
usher in a
new society, a “New Man”, or do they merely perpetuate the cult of
weaponry,
violence and death? Is underdevelopment and poverty a cause or an
excuse for
male violence? In the light of the Law Against Gender Violence recently
passed
by the Spanish parliament, is legislation an effective answer?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN">Approaches
may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color: black;" lang="EN"><span style=""> </span><br>
-<span style=""> </span>media representations of violence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="color: black;" lang="EN">-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black;" lang="EN">literary/filmic/artistic
representations of violence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->contemporary music and video/masculinity/violence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->masculinity/violence/popular culture</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->domestic, intra-familiar violence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->legal/juridical implications of masculine violence</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->power/violence/masculinity</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->masculinity/nationalism/violence</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->masculinity/terrorism/violence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->female collusion in masculine violence</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->religion/masculinity/violence</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->the patriarchal state and violence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->colonialism and violence</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->masculinity/violence/class</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->masculinity/violence/race</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->masculinity/violence/poverty</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->violence and gangs</p>
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style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->reversals and variations of the
‘masculine-perpetrator versus
female-victim’ model</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN">Submissions are
to be sent to one of the editors below by no later than 30 May 2006:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff Browitt <a
href="mailto:Jeffrey.Browitt@uts.edu.au">Jeffrey.Browitt@uts.edu.au</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stewart King <a
href="mailto:Stewart.King@arts.monash.edu.au">Stewart.King@arts.monash.edu.au</a><span
style="" lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="ES-TRAD">Alfredo Martínez Expósito </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a
href="mailto:a.martinez@uq.edu.au"><span style="" lang="ES-TRAD">a.martinez@uq.edu.au</span></a></span>
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