Call for Papers

Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society

Indigenous(ly) Fat, Fat(ly) Indigenous

Special Issue editors: Ashlea Gillon & Bronwyn Carlson

We seek to explore the space of Indigenous fat studies, posing the question: What does Indigenous fat studies look like? Fatness is intersectionally experienced and, for those of us who occupy multiple identities that are minoritised, our experiences of navigating fatness are complex. We invite papers for a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, on Indigenous(ly) Fat – Fat(ly) Indigenous. This special issue will encompass a variety of topics around the conceptualisation, actualisation, and embodiment of Indigenous fat studies and fat Indigeneity and what this may look like to us as Indigenous Peoples.

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference 2024

Anti-colonial Futures and Representation

The discipline of cultural studies has been regarded as a site of understanding culture and resistance.  Stuart Hall claimed that people need a language to speak about where they are, and what possible futures are available to them.  At the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures and the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies on Wallumattagal Campus (MQ), Dharug Country, we focus the studies of culture within an anti-colonial language and praxis. In November 2024 we look forward to you joining us to explore what this means across the broader discipline of Cultural Studies. 

This will mark the first time an Indigenous-centred site has hosted the CSAA conference. Across Cultural Studies we make choices in how our practice upholds or challenges colonialities, on how we look to the past, engage the now, and anticipate and map expansive futures.  As we come together in this conference, we will ask those presenting to address the theme of CSAA2024 in either specific or broad strokes.

ARC Centre of Excellence for The Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW)

The Gendered Regime of Colonialism

Editors: Madi Day, Bronwyn Carlson & Terri Farrelly
We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter in an edited collection that will examine the impact of colonialism on gender relations in specified regions of the Indo-Pacific and their responses. As part of the Australian Research Council, Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), under the Indigenous workstream ‘the violence of colonialism’, we are examining colonisation and settler colonialism as gendered regimes.