[Air-L] Call for papers: Domesticity and persona, Persona Studies journal

[Kim Barbour]

***CALL FOR PAPERS***

THEME: Domesticity and Persona (Volume 8, Issue 2)

ISSUE EDITORS: Dr Kim Barbour (University of Adelaide) and Dr Michael
Humphrey (Colorado State University)

JOURNAL WEBSITE: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps

Revolutions political, social, personal, technological, and beyond have
changed the way many people relate to the word “domestic.” At the same
time, the feeling of home is still very familiar to many. This became
readily evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, as homes became the scene for
a far more expansive set of life activities. For some, rather than crossing
beyond a private domain to the shared world, the shared world peered into a
slice of millions of private lives, prepared neatly for the eye of a
webcam, or interrupted by passing pets, partners, and children. For others,
the external gaze was resisted, views carefully obstructed to preserve the
sanctity of the domestic sphere. For still others, the domestic space
became (or continued to be) a place of surveillance, isolation,
imprisonment, and repression.

In the midst of these changes, both new and old, we are calling for
theoretical, critical, empirical, and/or creative responses that
investigate the persona in domesticity. Which personas flourish in domestic
light and which shrink? Who expands or constricts the boundaries of
domesticity? What freedoms and/or restrictions await, and for whom? How do
we understand domesticity and personas in a time of collapsed contexts and
multipurpose spaces?

THEMES AND ISSUES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

* Parenting, homemaking, life-hacks, pets, home spaces

* Work/Life (im)balance

* Authenticity and the domestic sphere

* Shared domestic spaces and labour

* Queering domesticity

* Protest and counter-narratives of domesticity

* Taboo and domestic personas

* Power, control, violence and victimisation in domestic persona performance

* Domestic personas through history

* Labour and the domestic persona

* Personas in paid domestic work

* Gender, race, and/or class and domestic personas

* Visualising domestic personas

* Visibilising domestic spaces and personas through lockdown and WfH

* Theorising domesticity through persona

* Persona curation and ‘work from home’ / ‘learn from home’ spaces

* Theorising persona through domesticity

* Celebrity and domesticity

* Platformed domesticity and personas

* Domesticity and education

* Domesticating devices and persona building

To register your interest:

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract to personastudies [at] gmail [dot]
com, including the proposed article/creative response title, and a short
author bio (50-100 words) for each contributor, no later than 29 April
2022. Ensure the abstract clearly connects to the theme of the issue – a
short statement in the email to explain the fit with the issue is welcome
but not necessary. Please see the Key Dates below for the timeline for the
issue, noting that deadlines should be read in your own time zone.

Key Dates:

* Abstracts due – 29 April 2022

* Invitation for full papers – 06 May 2022

* Full papers due for peer review – 15 August 2022

* Peer review results returned – 12 September 2022

* Revised papers due – 14 October 2022

* Issue release date – November 2022