Transgressive Culture – ‘Madness’ and Culture
Deadline for submission: Feb 19
Transgressive Culture is a new electronic and print peer-reviewed journal and book series published with Gylphi, with an international editorial board that includes Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne) and James Kincaid (University of Southern California). Details of the ‘addiction edition’ can be found here: http://www.gylphi.co.uk/transgressive/index.php.
We invite submissions of critical and creative work within the broad area of ‘Madness’ and Culture. Submissions may wish to consider the following areas – though we are open to ideas from outside this list:
–How should and can madness in the 21st century be conceptualized, and who should be in charge of such conceptualization?
–How madness is represented in new media forms, such as blogs or advertisements?
–How can or does music, literature and the arts transgress traditional or clinical formulations of mad experiences?
–Are service users transgressing and transcending their own experiences through their documentation and reiteration in art and literature?
–How does psychiatry deal with those who transgress the boundaries of The Good Patient?
–To what extent can creativity and madness be delineated as interdependent in the 21st century?
–Does the media continue to play a role in creating and maintaining public perceptions of madness and how should this be addressed in terms of stigma and inequality?
–How are contemporary mental health movements, such as the Recovery movement, reconfigured or represented in literature and culture?
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