Women and Performance: a journal
of feminist theory
Call for Papers
Title: Policy Matters
Guest Editors: Sandra Ruiz and Tracie D. Morris
Performance scholars and artists have been involved
in policy matters by critiquing the implementation of policies
gone awry as well
as responding to and supporting policies that have improved the
environment of cultural subjects. Many cultural policy scholars
have focused on the National Endowment for the Arts (specifically
the debacle of 1989) and museum studies. Rather than looking at
the term cultural policy as merely the domain of these institutional
and discursive sites, this issue of Women and Performance: a journal
of feminist theory asks that policy be viewed as a blueprint for
living that drives—whether consensually or coercively—the
fabric of cultural expression. This issue will focus on considerations
of practices that policy provokes, the performativity it achieves,
and the influence it has in the circulation of culture.
Policy Matters seeks to answer the following questions: what are
the implications of the term policy as it relates to raced, gendered,
and queered bodies in so far as these identity rubrics are mediated
by their own unspoken cultural policies? What is the relation between
cultural policy “proper” and the inferred information
that performers use to carve out performative spaces? And how does
policy “mean” in the minoritarian subject’s call
and response to policy as a matter of humanist concern?
Authors are invited to engage in a number of possible topics based
in performance analysis. Possible topics may include policy as
performed utterance and the legal
and political performance of promises; the subject’s body as a landscape
for policy; political campaigns and the intersectional analyses of gender, race,
sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class, and nation; and other approaches which
take policy to mean and do beyond its prescribed function.
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit manuscripts electronically as e-mail attachments in Microsoft Word.
All e-mails should be addressed to Sandra Ruiz, Guest Editor, at sr712@nyu.edu and Tracie D. Morris, Guest Editor, at Tracdmor@aol.com. Essays should be double-spaced,
with 1-inch margins; articles should not exceed 10,000 words. Please follow The
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. All manuscripts should be submitted with
a 250 word abstract. Submissions are due no later than April 15, 2007.
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