AIDS in Culture: Explorations in the Cultural History of Aids

This new journal published with articles in English and Castilian, will publish notes, articles, news reports, academic announcements, announcements from organizations and groups as well as book reviews and in-depth reviews of recent scholarship relating to Aids in its cultural context. The journal solicits cutting edge work emerging from interdisciplinary or cross disciplinary approaches as well as that reflecting the distinctive insights of established traditional disciplines and professional standpoints. At the same time, as in AIDSinCULTURE.org's conferences and community activities, also the journal will be a global forum where academic and non academic can meet and dialogue on equal terms.

The journal aims at reflecting the wide range of current scholarship within the humanities and the social sciences that treat cultural responses to HIV/AIDS in one one way or another. Among the themes of interest are the following:

• AIDS and Cultural Texts: Power and Representation.

• Representations of AIDS in art, movies, music, poetry, religion and literature from the 1980s until today.

• Silences and taboos in discourses on HIV/AIDS.

• Aesthetic responses to the challenge. Rituals, customs, and fetishism.

• Cultural practices that influence the spread of HIV/AIDS

• AIDS and collective and individual identities: Race, Class, Gender etc

• AIDS and Politics, Lobbying and Activism: Power, Representation and Activism.

• Constructions and reconstructions of AIDS in political, faith and ideology based discourse, legal issues and policy making throughout the world: Who has the authority to speak and who is silenced?

• AIDS and theory: Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary Studies and all related disciplines. How do we theorize and analyse experiences and the meaning of illness?

• The ‚significance’ of AIDS for individuals and communities; the cultural factors influencing our perceptions of health and illness experiences.

• AIDS and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence.

• Indigenous knowledge and responses to AIDS

• Stories and Histories about AIDS

• AIDS and Oral History

Interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches are encouraged since the topics covered by the journal in themselves stretch across several disciplines: history, literary studies, linguistics, psychology, political sciences, pedagogy, ethnology, anthropology, sociology...

The Journal is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars in the humanities and social sciences as well as community activists, artists and other professionals interested in the themes covered. 

Original scholarly work may be submitted for two categories: notes (1,000-2,000 words) and essays (5,000-13,000 words). In addition to these categories, the journal will offer the opportunity to publish work in progress and receive feedback through the journal’s Bulletin Board. 

Send one double- spaced manuscript in (preferably) MS word format as e-mail attachment to ( info@aidsinculture.org ). Articles should have standard margins and font and should include a cover page, with the title, the author's name, institutional affiliation, email address, and postal address. Abstracts between 250-500 words must accompany the essays. The text of the essay should have the title only, without the author's name. All manuscripts for scientific sections of the magazine will be subjected to peer-review that will ensure the anonymity of both the author and the reviewers. 

Each article will be published with a summary in Castilian if the language of the article is English and vice versa. 

Those who would like to review scholarly books for the journal should write or email the editorial board ( editorialboard@aidsinculture.org  ), explaining their fields of expertise and areas of interest.

Deadlines:

The first issue will be published in April 2007. Deadline has passed. 

Deadline for submissions for the next issues:

 

July Issue: May 15

October Issue: September 15 

January Issue: November 15

April Issue: February 15

Later submissions may be deferred until the following volume.

Individuals

$184 electronic-only
$234 print + electronic
$250 print-only

Students and Members of CHiCS

Organisations with Membership in AIDSinCulture.org