[Bilimsel Haber] Growing Up Transnational

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Growing Up Transnational

Growing up Transnational (tentative title)

We are seeking contributions for an edited collection of essays on issues of
family in a transnational context.

We are looking for scholarly articles that interrogate family relations,
identity politics and cultural locations within the family from a feminist
perspective. We invite articles that embrace an academic or 
academic/personal
perspective on issues of transnationality with specific attention to 
family life
and family relations. We especially invite novel perspectives and
interdisciplinary approaches from fields such as Women's Studies, Gender
Studies, Queer Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Literary Theory, and Critical
Theory.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
- transnational relationships within the family
- the family as virtual nation
- the impact of nationalism on gender roles
- travel across borders / across a life time
- interrelatedness between privilege and (dis)placement
- disconnect between origin and ethnic consciousness
- identity mappings across borders
- transnationality and the generation conflict
- poststructuralist/postmodern notions of feminism and family
- home and domesticity in transnational contexts
- virtual and internal border crossings

We invite letters of inquiry and full-length articles (3,000-6,000 
words, MLA
style). Initial email submissions are welcome at: May Friedman at
may@orange-carb.org or Silvia Schultermandl at silvisch@rci.rutgers.edu.

Restrictions: Please do not submit work that is under consideration 
elsewhere or
that has been published previously. Submissions from junior and senior 
academics
will be given equal consideration.

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2006.

Editors:
May Friedman is a doctoral candidate in Women's Studies at York 
University in
Toronto, Canada.

Silvia Schultermandl is a Post-Doc Fellow at Rutgers, The State 
University of
New Jersey, and a lecturer in Women's Studies at Karl-Franzens 
University Graz,
Austria.


Silvia Schultermandl
Email: silvisch@rci.rutgers.edu