[KS] Pls Post: Call for Submissions on The International Journal of Korean History’s special issue on Queer Korea/Asia (Fall 2022)

[woori han]

*Call for Submissions on **/The International Journal of Korean 
History/**’s special issue on Queer Korea/Asia**//**(Fall 2022)*

This special issue of /The International Journal of Korean History /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.


As queer and Asia(as geopolitical metaphor) 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 /Korea Journal/’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.


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.


Topics include but are not limited to:

biopolitics on non-conforming gender and sexual practices during the 
pandemic

How gender and sexual norms are essential to Asian modernity

Feminist and LGBTQ movements

Queer cultural production

Non-normative gender and sexual practices in/across Asia

Media representation of LGBTQ people and non-conforming gender and 
sexuality

Digital media and gender and sexual practices

Postcolonial approach to queer Asia

Queer citizenship

Queer approaches to nation and the state

Racism intersecting with gender variance and sexuality

The tensions and relationship between feminism and queer politics in Asia


If you are interested in submitting a paper, please send a manuscript 
(8000 words) to special edition guest editor Dr. Woori Han 
(woorihan at upenn.edu) and to journal’s office (ijkhinfo at gmail.com 
<mailto:ijkhinfo at gmail.com>) by *_February 10_**_^th _**_2022. _*Please 
see the instructions for authors at 
(https://ijkh.khistory.org/authors/authors.php). Any inquiries should be 
addressed to Dr. Han (woorihan at upenn.edu).
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