JOCPC: Journal of Children in Popular Culture

Tue. Apr. 2 03:21 PM - Fri. May. 17 12:00 PM

Call for papers: Water and Childhood

 

Deadline for proposal submissions: May 17, 2024 (tbc)

 

Deadline for complete drafts: August 30, 2024 (tbc)

Contact email: camartin@swin.edu.au

 

JOCPC is pleased to be working with guest editor Jack Anderson who is assembling a special edition of the journal for the Fall 2024 issue focusing on the figure of the child paired with the rich symbolism of water. We have kept the theme open-ended, and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are addressing the relationship between water and childhood. Investigations into the topic may include (but are not limited to):

 

· Water and children’s play

· Famine, drought, and thirst

· Access to potable water

· Mythmaking and the symbolic complexity of water

· Water as a site of change

· Cleansing and purification

· Aquaphobia and drowning

· Water as nightmare realm

· Water, horror and childhood

· Sites of loss/death of childhood

· Trauma and return

· Emotional geographies

· Thresholds of experience

· The motivation or setting for undressing

· Consciousness of one’s own and other bodies

· Coming of age/rites of passage

· Bullying

· Sites of sexual awakening, exploration and experience

· Vulnerability and exploitation

 

Alongside the topographical explorations of different spatial waterways and water spaces, submissions are also invited to consider various forms of water such as rain, storms and puddles and their relationship to childhood and children.

 

All disciplines are welcome and international submissions are encouraged. Submissions are to be between 5,000 and 7,000 words, including notes. Essay proposals of 450-500 words will be accepted up to May 17 with complete first drafts due August 30.

 

The journal is also accepting reviews for books, films, and television. Contact carynmyrphy@gmail.com for more information and review submissions.

 

JOCPC is an open-access, online, international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars and professionals to interrogate representations of the child in popular culture.

 

The journal facilitates an international dialogue among scholars and professionals through vigorous discussion of the intersections between the child, the conception of childhood, and any other interactions with the child in the context of popular culture.

 

JOCPC invites critical and/or theoretical examination of the child to further our understanding of the circulation, consumption, and representation of the child throughout a variety of mediums within popular discourse.