{"id":813,"date":"2020-10-01T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlacs-travesia.online\/?p=813"},"modified":"2020-10-08T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:12:34","slug":"call-for-papers-for-a-special-issue-on-obscenity-censorship-and-libidinal-politics-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jlacs-travesia.online\/pt-br\/2020\/10\/01\/call-for-papers-for-a-special-issue-on-obscenity-censorship-and-libidinal-politics-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers for a\u00a0Special Issue on “Obscenity, Censorship, and Libidinal Politics in Latin America”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Co-edited by Javier Fern\u00e1ndez-Galeano (Wesleyan University) and Zeb Tortorici (NYU)<\/h4>\n

The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies seeks contributors for a special issue on the topic of \u201cObscenity, Censorship, and Libidinal Politics in Latin America.\u201d We are particularly interested in exploring interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the shifting political, cultural, and technical contours of what gets defined as \u201cobscene,\u201d and how censorship works in relation to state politics, aesthetics, and forms of activism. In recent years, with the explosive growth of the field of Porn Studies, there has been a rise in scholarship on the erotic and the pornographic in Latin American and Latinx Studies. Here we build on such interventions, analyzing the mutually productive relationship between censorship and the obscene, seeing censorship not only as a repressive mechanism but as both producing and conditioning the erotic. Censorship thus implies the production of the erotic as its inverse reflection, and the very precondition for the existence and the enticement of the erotic. We are interested in the shifting definitions of what does, and does not, belong in the public sphere, pointing to the curatorial practices by (and beyond) the state. We also want to explore \u201cobscenity\u201d as a driving force in other areas of human experience, including, but not limited to, technical innovation, ideological strife, and racial and class tensions. By focusing on libidinal politics in Latin America, we explore the potentialities for subverting sexual and esthetic ideals that stem from regimes of power, centering issues of race, class, and postcoloniality through the erotic, the pornographic, and the \u201cobscene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Possible topics, in addition to pornography, postporn, and erotica, might
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