PUBLICATION

Dear Paper Participant

We have an intentional agreement with a major international publishing company to publish an anthology growing out of the Ida Blom Conference: Gendered Citizenship. History, Politics and Democracy,

We think it is an excellent opportunity to disseminate findings from the Conference to a broader audience and hope that we can publish a version of the best papers in such an anthology.

In order to narrow the focus for a publication, we suggest to focus on Gendered Citizenship: The Challenges of Representation (alternatively the Politics of Representation). We wish here to retain "representation" in its dual meaning, pointing both to "standing in for/acting for" (as in representational democracy) and "re-presenting" (as in presenting something/somebody in discourse, texts, images and so forth). This duality has been noted repetitively within feminist scholarship and has found several forceful examinations. We hope to renew this debate, placing it firmly within contemporary, global challenges to thinking citizenship on a broad scale and putting together research from both the social sciences and the humanities addressing the problematic of representation from diverse perspectives.

If you are interested please send an abstract of your paper (300 words) to gencit2013@uib.no within 1st of November 2013.  

We also consider publishing another anthology, theme to be decided. Suggestions are welcome and can be submitted to gencit2013@uib.no

Best regards,
Brita, Hilde, Kari and Ragnhild, for the organizing committee.