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Call for Papers for a special issue of lambda nordica

The tensions and temporalities of pride politics. Transnational travels and situated locales

Special Issue Editors: Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich

Abstract deadline 15/1 2021, article deadline 1/9 2021

The idea of pride continues to travel across the globe to promote visibility and validity of LGBTI+ people. Yet, as a political movement and community of belonging, pride politics takes shape as a contested field in situated locales, at once challenged and cherished, bringing forth critical questions of the agendas, tactics and visions of its ever-increasing popularity.

This special issue invites papers that draw on various types of ethnographic, empirical and theoretical approaches, with the aim to scrutinize the emergent tensions and temporalities of pride politics through its many shifting times and contexts, transnationally as well as locally. By exploring the tensions and temporalities of pride, this special issue is interested in reaching deeper insights around how scale and place matter for the meaning attached to pride related events. We are inspired by scholars who have problematized and challenged the legacy of pride politics as oriented towards a specific form of visibility in urban space and towards legal recognition.

We invite abstracts of 150-200 words. Abstracts should be sent to special issue editors: mia.liinason[at]gu.se and olga.sasunkevich[at]gu.se. For more information, see: http://lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/announcement/view/17.

Deadline for abstracts: 15/1 2021.

Deadline for articles: September 1, 2021

Expected publication date: Early fall 2022