Authors can submit their papers any time after October 1st and up until the18th February 2014. Online submission can be found at:http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm/default.asp <http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm> . When asked to choose article type, please stipulate ‘Special Issue: Debates on Humanity/Child-development.’ In the ‘Enter Comments’ box, the title of the Special Issue, along with any further acknowledgements, should be inserted. All submissions should meet Social Science & Medicine author guidelines (http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm). Please contact Dominique.Behague@Vanderbilt.edu and Samuel.Leze@ens-lyon.fr for further questions.

Volume 8 of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies will include a special issue dedicated to “The War On Boys?“.

Guest editors: Máirtín Mac an Ghaill (Newman University, UK), Chris Haywood (Newcastle University, UK) and Jonathan A. Allan (Brandon University, Canada).

In 2013, Christina Hoff Sommers released a second edition of The War Against Boys, and shortly after, Michael Kimmel released Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. Both of these books attest to a shift in perspective about masculinity, not just in the academy, but on the ground, in the city, in the classroom, in the boardroom, in the factory. Boys and men, we are told, are under attack. The University Campus has become a breeding ground for discussions of “men’s issues” and “men’s rights,” both of which often focus on the figure of the Boy who will become a Man in an inhospitable and feminizing world. Our intended special issue poses a narrow, but nonetheless open, question: How do we, as scholars of boyhood, masculinities, and gender, think about the “war on boys” and what does that “war” look like? How can critical perspectives including but not limited to intersectional feminist theories, critical race theory, crip theory and disability studies, and queer theory help us disentangle the remarkably complex and nuanced nature of boyhood in this war?

The full call for papers is at http://bit.ly/1fZgkLp
More on Thymos: http://bit.ly/REKA2m
Preliminary inquiries and abstracts are welcome. Full manuscripts are dueMarch 15, 2014.
APA-styled manuscripts should be sent to both AllanJ@brandonu.ca anddiederikjanssen@gmail.com

The following Special Issue will be published in Social Sciences
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci, ISSN 2076-0760),
and is now open to receive submissions of full research papers and
comprehensive review articles for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Contemporary Developments in Child Protection
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/socsci/child_protection/
Guest Editor: Professor Nigel Parton
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2014

Summary

The last forty years has witnessed increasing public, political and
media concern about the problem of child maltreatment and what
to do about it. This is now evident in most jurisdictions and is
receiving serious attention from many international and trans-national
organisations. While the (re)discovery of the problem in the USA in
the 1960s was particularly associated with the ‘battered baby
syndrome’ this has now broadened to include: physical abuse,
sexual abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, abuse on the internet, child
trafficking, sexual exploitation, and to effect all children and young
people and not just young babies. Similarly the focus of attention has
broadened from intra-familial abuse to abuse in a whole variety of
settings including schools, day care, the church and the wider
community. There has also been a broadening of concern from not
simply protecting children and young people from serious harm but
to also prevent the impairment of their health and development and
to ensure that they are able to grow up in circumstances which are
consistent with the provision of safe and effective care so that all
children can achieve the best outcomes.

In the process the laws, policies, practices and systems which have
been developed to try to identify and prevent child maltreatment
have become much more wide-ranging and complex and have
themselves been subject to continual criticism and review. Social
workers, health and education workers, the police and other criminal
justice workers as well as members of the wider community are all
seen to have key roles to play in both protecting children and young
people and assessing and monitoring actual and potential perpetrators.

While these issues have been subject to often heated and high profile
media and political debate they have not received sustained analytic
and research based attention in the social sciences. The issue of child
protection is often seen as somewhat marginal to a whole range of
social science disciplines.  The purpose of this Special Issue is to try
and act as something of a corrective to this. It encourages the
submission of papers from a wide range of disciplines including law,
sociology, politics, criminology, psychology, anthropology, education,
social work, social policy and gender studies as well as contributions
which are cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary.

Keywords

*  Child abuse
*  Child protection
*  Child maltreatment
*  Public protection
*  The role of state, family and community
*  Family support
*  Social surveillance
*  Risk to children

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously,
nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also
encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short
abstract to the Editorial Office (socsci@mdpi.com) for approval.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited
and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more
frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is
supported by the authors and their institutes.
More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

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Call for Papers
Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures
Special Issue on Consumption

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures invites essay submissions for a special issue addressing the many interpretations of consumption and their meanings in relation to youth texts and culture(s). We welcome essays that consider registers of race, class, gender, and disability. Essays should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length and prepared for blind peer-review.

Consumption is a vehicle through which we come to understand proprietary relationships with people, places, bodies, and identities. If food is the primary signifier when we think of consumption, how might we read metaphoric consumption (of capital, culture, and place, for instance) in light of notions of necessity and survival?

Submissions of articles, which should include abstracts, are requested by: 15 December 2013.

Topics may include:

– representations of food or the ingestion of food and drink
– eating disorders, the stigma of obesity, and fatphobia
– pedagogy of health
– consumption as disease (ie. tuberculosis)
– obsession or fixation
– symbolic acts of devouring/being devoured
– cannibalism or consuming the self (eg. vampires, fairy tales)
– consumption, purchasing, ownership, and material culture
– discourses of consumption (good/bad consumers)
– young people as consumers, advertising for or about young people
– cultural consumerism/tourism

Inquiries may be directed to Larissa Wodtke, Managing Editor:
l.wodtke@uwinnipeg.ca

Further information about submission guidelines is available at:
http://jeunessejournal.ca

To download a PDF of the CFP:
http://crytc.uwinnipeg.ca/pdf/Jeunesse_Special_Issue_Consumption_CFP.pdf

Childhood is now widely recognized as a social construct (Fass, Jenks, Mintz). As the artifice behind the construction of childhood has been revealed, there has been a marked increase in the analysis of children and childhood in contemporary culture (Demarr and Bakermann, Edelman, Latham, McLennan, Renner, Stockton). Despite the increase in scholarly attention, depictions of childhood in comics and other forms of comic art are ripe for further study. The forthcoming issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, focusing on comics, picturebooks, and childhood, should provide interesting insights into these depictions. Yet there remains plenty of room for consideration regarding how different comics construct childhood. This is an especially interesting area of inquiry given the somewhat vexed association comic books have traditionally maintained with childhood. In an attempt to continue developing the scholarly focus on childhood, as well as comics, we seek proposals for scholarly articles that analyze, explore and interrogate depictions of childhood in comics or comic art for inclusion in a book-length anthology.

We welcome all proposals, although, based on responses so far, we are particularly interested in more submissions regarding depictions of childhood in comics aimed at adults.

Potential topics include:

Please submit an abstract of 300 words and a short CV to Mark Heimermann, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Brittany Tullis, St. Ambrose University, at heimermanntullis@gmail.com by January 1st, 2014 for consideration. Full papers will be due by June 1st, 2014.

Bridging the divide: Researching Children/ Young People and Sexuality 

Guest Editors
Nelly Ali (Birkbeck)
Joe Hall (University of Hull)

After a great success of our paper and panel sessions at the RGS Annual
Conference, we are very pleased to share that we have secured a special
edition volume of the peer reviewed journal Global Childhood Studies.

The sub-fields of children’s and youth geographies and geographies of
sexualities often deal with intersecting themes that cross-cut the
(seemingly) mutually exclusive nature of these fields. In our proposed
sessions we aim to bring these themes to the forefront and bridge the divide
between these geographical sub-fields by prompting a stimulating discussion
between children’s and youth geographers (and scholars of childhood and
youth more broadly) and researchers of sexuality. We hope this long overdue
interaction will kick start a rich and rewarding dialogue that may continue
for years to
come.

We are seeking abstracts for a methodologically focused collected edition
that we hope will address the practical aspects of conducting research with
children/ young people around issues of sexuality. This may include papers
given by early career researchers who have, or are about to explore a topic
of sexuality with children/ young people in contrasting socio-cultural
contexts. It may also include papers by experienced researchers who may be
able to offer insight and practical advice for conducting ethically sound
research with various types of children/ young people. We also welcome
papers that explore innovative approaches to data collection and analysis.

Please submit proposed titles and abstracts of no more than 500 words to
Nelly Ali (nelly.ali@gmail.com) and Joe Hall (j.j.hall@2005.hull.ac.uk) by
29th December 2013.

Schedule:

Abstracts in: 29th December 2013
Acceptance communicated 15th January 2014
First Draft of Papers: 15th March 2014
Reviews Complete 15th May 2014
Modifications: 30th June 2014
Checks and Editorial: 1st August 2014
Final Version ready for submission 15th September 2014

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

General Call for Papers

Anthropology & Education Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal, housed at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It draws on anthropological theories and methods to examine educational processes in and out of schools, in US and international contexts. Articles rely primarily on ethnographic research to address immediate problems of practice as well as broad theoretical questions surrounding issues that impact research and practice in the field. We value diverse ways of knowing and weaving together theory, research, practice, and social justice to directly address issues and institutions that impact teaching and learning in the educational experiences of children, families, and communities within and beyond the classroom setting. We also see the journal as a key site for providing connection, support and feedback to emerging scholars in the field. Finally, to all of this we must reaffirm the journal’s long tradition of supporting anti-oppressive, socially equitable, and racially, socially and gender-just education.

The journal publishes two different types of scholarly work, manuscripts and reflections. (1) Manuscripts should be no more than 35 pages in length. (2) Reflections from/on the Field should be approximately 15-20 pages in length. Both should be formatted as Word documents and blinded for anonymous peer review.

We are eager to receive your manuscript submissions.

For more information visit us at:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1492

You may also contact the Editors-in-Chief, Dr. Laura Alicia Valdiviezo and Dr. Sally Campbell Galman at aeq@educ.umass.edu

I am seeking an additional essay to complete a collection of essays under contract with Rutgers University Press entitled _”The War of My Generation:” Youth Culture and the War on Terror_. This collection examines how children and adolescents have been imagined as subjects in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and during the subsequent war on terror in its domestic and foreign policy manifestations. Essays already accepted examine cultural products aimed at young people (video games, novels, children’s books) and how young people have been imagined as subjects (students who should/shouldn’t encounter specific images of the war, potential military recruits, etc.). Other essays explore how young people have responded to the attacks and wars.

In response to a suggestion by an external reviewer, I am seeking an additional essay that explores young people’s engagement in acts of memorialization and/or protest. I am interested in essays that address one or more of the following questions, though I’m of course open to other approaches as well:

-How have young people engaged in the memorialization of the September 11 attacks or the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars? What do their actions at memorial sites, their participation in memorial ceremonies, or their creation of new ways/sites of remembering tell us about how young people engage with the critical questions of citizenship during the War on Terror?

-How have young people supported or protested the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? What do their actions tell us about how young people imagine the role of the United States in the world, the place of the military in society, and the obligations of citizenship during the War on Terror?

-How do young people’s acts of memorialization and protest draw upon/intersect with/revise earlier protest traditions — anti-Vietnam protests, sit-ins, and teach-ins, divestment movements, and so on?

Essays should be no longer than 9.000 words, and I would like to submit the final draft of the collection to the press in January.

Please feel free to contact me to discuss ideas.

Thanks.

Dave Kieran
American Studies
Franklin & Marshall College
David Kieran
American Studies Department
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17603
Email: david.kieran@fandm.edu