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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Submissions on </b><b><i>The
International Journal of Korean History</i></b><b>’s special
issue on Queer Korea/Asia</b><b><i> </i></b><b>(Fall 2022)</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This special issue of <i>The International
Journal of Korean History </i>for Fall 2022 invites you to
contribute your work on gender variance, non-normative sexuality,
and queerness in Korea and elsewhere in Asia. The goal of the
issue is to produce interdisciplinary and transhistorical studies
to better understand how (non-normative) gender, sexuality, and
queerness in Asia are mediated, felt, practiced, and controlled
across/in everyday life and institutions in Korea and beyond. In
doing so, this issue aims to promote intersectional studies that
show how gender and sexuality are structured and transformed by
sociohistorical formations of race, class, and the authoritarian,
neoliberal, and developmental states in Asia. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">As
queer and Asia<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Batang"> (as
geopolitical metaphor) </span>are similar in being
indeterminate and ambiguous without fixed references, their
realigned relationship can offer critical lenses through which to
complement queer theories and Asian studies. While queer of color
scholars and queer leftists in the early 2000s have argued for the
intervention of queer theories in globalization, imperialism, and
neoliberal capitalism to counter self-referential logics of US
centrism, such engagements have yet to be fully enacted (Eng,
Halberstam, & Munoz 2005; Duggan 2003). In this context, queer
theories need Asian studies to challenge and overcome
Euro-American centrism and reification of Asia as an object of
study through inter-Asian referencing while Asian studies need
queer theories to move beyond Asia as area studies and the
complicity with the nation-state (Chiang & Wong 2017). In this
context, queer Asian studies could analyze the connection between
the global reconfiguration of sexuality and so-called Asian values
such as Confucianism and developmentalism. Similarly, in his
Introduction to <i>Korea Journal</i>’s Special Issue on Queer
Korea, Todd Henry (2018) articulates queer Korean studies as
critique to address how queer studies enhance the critical
understanding of Korea, including not only its gender and sexual
norms and their variances but also its illiberal institutions,
citizenship, and nation-state. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Against
this backdrop, this special issue continues such efforts to engage
in ongoing discussions on, as Asian queer scholars have raised,
how queer matters for Asia and how Asia matters for queer (Chiang
& Wong 2017). This issue welcomes both (1) theoretical essays
aimed at critical reflection and construction on queer and Korea
(and Asia) and (2) empirical research papers that will contribute
to the approach to queer Korea and queer Asian studies as
critique.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Topics include but are not limited to: </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">biopolitics on non-conforming gender and sexual
practices during the pandemic</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How gender and sexual norms are essential to
Asian modernity</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Feminist and LGBTQ movements</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Queer cultural production </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Non-normative gender and sexual practices
in/across Asia </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Media representation of LGBTQ people and
non-conforming gender and sexuality </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Digital media and gender and sexual practices </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Postcolonial approach to queer Asia </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Queer citizenship </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Queer approaches to nation and the state </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Racism intersecting with gender variance and
sexuality </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The tensions and relationship between feminism
and queer politics in Asia </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are interested in submitting a paper,
please send a manuscript (8000 words) to special edition guest
editor Dr. Woori Han (<a href="mailto:woorihan@upenn.edu" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">woorihan@upenn.edu</a>) and to
journal’s office (<a href="mailto:ijkhinfo@gmail.com"><span style="color:blue">ijkhinfo@gmail.com</span></a>) by <b><u>February
10</u></b><b><u><sup>th</sup></u></b><b><u> 2022. </u></b>Please
see the instructions for authors at (<a href="https://ijkh.khistory.org/authors/authors.php" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://ijkh.khistory.org/authors/authors.php</a>).
Any inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Han (<a href="mailto:woorihan@upenn.edu" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">woorihan@upenn.edu</a>).
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