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Anarchism and Sexuality conference, Leeds, February 2010.
Call for Papers: Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and
Portuguese-speaking countries
The aim of this conference is to explore the connections between
anarchist thought and activism in regions of extensive uptake of anarchist
ideas, e.g. Spain, Portugal and Latin America, with respect to an important
area of anarchist ideas and practice: sexuality.
This is an under-studied area in anarchist historiography and other
disciplines, such as history of labour movements, and this is particularly
the case in some understudied countries within these regions (especially
Portugal and Brazil). As areas with large anarchist movements, they offer
telling examples of how anarchism engaged with this important question.
Sexuality was taken up by anarchist movements as an example of their
attempt to interconnect cultural, social and economic questions and forms
of exploitation and as a response to broad issues of power differentials
between men and women in society, the role of the Catholic Church and as an
attempt to live and experience cultural change as part of the overall
challenge anarchist movements have provided against capitalist social
relations.
This is relevant not just on a historical level but also has relevance
to current debates on the relations between politics, sexuality, cultural
change and identities. We invite papers on historical as well as present
day intersections between anarchism and sexuality, and their implications
for anarchist or libertarian practice. We would also encourage
contributions on Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Asia and Africa and their
respective anarchist movements.
In addition to providing a forum for the discussion of the legacy and
the present of anarchist thought, the conference aims to allow for a
critical engagement with current theories that derive from the realities of
countries generally unknown in British critical thinking, political science
and sociology, not to speak of gender and sexuality studies.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words or expressions of
interest to Gwendolyn Windpassinger (G.Windpassinger@???) or
Richard Cleminson (R.M.Cleminson@???) by Tuesday, 30th of June,
2009.
Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
Gwendolyn Windpassinger (Loughborough University)
