[csaa-forum] Journal Call for Papers: “MASCULINITIES AND VIOLENCE IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA” 30 May 2006

[Paul Allatson]

CALL FOR PAPERS/CONVOCATORIA

 

“MASCULINITIES AND VIOLENCE

 IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA”

 

The December 2006 edition of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American 
Studies (JILAS) 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 
JILAS Style Guide:

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/history/jilas/styleguide.htm

 

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 
masculine 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. It has also been suggested that specific acts of violence such 
as terrorism, sabotage, and bullying are overwhelmingly performed by 
men. 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?

 

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?

 

Approaches may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

 
-    media representations of violence

-         literary/filmic/artistic representations of violence

-         contemporary music and video/masculinity/violence

-         masculinity/violence/popular culture

-         domestic, intra-familiar violence

-         legal/juridical implications of masculine violence

-         power/violence/masculinity

-         masculinity/nationalism/violence

-         masculinity/terrorism/violence

-         female collusion in masculine violence

-         religion/masculinity/violence

-         the patriarchal state and violence

-         colonialism and violence

-         masculinity/violence/class

-         masculinity/violence/race

-         masculinity/violence/poverty

-         violence and gangs

-         reversals and variations of the ‘masculine-perpetrator versus 
female-victim’ model

 

Submissions are to be sent to one of the editors below by no later than 
30 May 2006:

 

Jeff Browitt Jeffrey.Browitt at uts.edu.au <mailto:Jeffrey.Browitt at uts.edu.au>

Stewart King Stewart.King at arts.monash.edu.au 
<mailto:Stewart.King at arts.monash.edu.au>

Alfredo Martínez Expósito a.martinez at uq.edu.au 
<mailto:a.martinez at uq.edu.au>
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