<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Animal Studies Journal CFP</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px"><b>Critical Animal Studies in the Asia-Pacific: class, culture, gender and identity.</b><br>
Guest edited by Colin Salter</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Alongside what are largely ubiquitous and normative bases of exploitation around the globe, regional paradigms and particularities present themselves in the ways in which animals are socially constructed. Building on the success of the 2014 Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania Conference, contributions are sought that directly engage with such paradigms and particularities.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Of particular interest are works that contribute to a broader and nuanced understanding of the performative in logics of domination. The manifestations-intersections of exploitation within and across class, culture, gender, identity and species in the Asia-Pacific are of key interest.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Suggested topics include:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the mapping of ideologies (nation, gender, masculinity, class) onto animal bodies</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>animal geographies</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ecofeminist and Posthumanist ethics</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>animals in art, film and literature</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 3px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Queering and gendering speciesism</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>approaches to activism and social change</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Abstracts submissions close on August 26, with an November 21 deadline for completed manuscripts. The special issue will be published in 2015.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">ASJ is open access, and all submissions pass through a double-blind peer review process. More information is available at <a href="http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/</span></a>. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Abstracts and any enquiries should be sent to Colin Salter <<a href="mailto:csalter@uow.edu.au"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">csalter@uow.edu.au</span></a>></span></p></body></html>