Call for Book Chapters: The Changing Face of Pride Events: Movements, Activism, Histories
For an edited volume edited by Francesca Romana Ammaturo and Koen Slootmaeckers.
Extended abstracts (1000 words) should be sent to Dr Francesca Romana Ammaturo ([email protected]) and Dr Koen Slootmaeckers ([email protected]), with the subject line: “Extended abstract for Pride Book” by 15 January 2025.
Call for chapters:
Pride Events have become the most paradigmatic type of events held annually by different LGBTQIA+ communities across the world. These events play different roles, from awareness-raising to community-building, from representation of different experiences, to advancing social and political claims, often connected to human rights issues (Ammaturo, 2016, 2023; Armstrong and Crage, 2006; Browne, 2007; Duggan, 2010; Renkin, 2015; Stella, 2013; Woodcock, 2004). Furthermore, Pride Events have multiplied across both urban and rural locations (Ammaturo, 2016), diversifying the repertoire, priorities, and tactics to engage both the local LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as bystanders and the wider civil society.
Yet, there are also controversies surrounding the organisation of Pride Events, in particular in relation to their commercialisation and commodification (Conway, 2022; Domínguez Ruiz, 2019), the de-politicisation of these events in favour of more ‘party-like’ events (Browne, 2007; Markwell and Waitt, 2009), their co-optation within other political projects (Ammaturo, 2016; Mikuš, 2011; Slootmaeckers, 2017), as well as rifts regarding the representation of marginalised groups within these events such as QTIPOC, trans people, disabled people, migrants, etc (Barrientos et al., 2010; Greensmith and Giwa, 2013; Radoman, 2016; Scott, 2017).
We are keen to bring together Pride scholars to create a new book on the politics of Pride events across the world. In the book, we welcome contributions that interrogate challenges and opportunities in the organisation of Pride Events at the global scale, with an intention to de-centre Eurocentric and US-centric narratives on Pride Events. For this reason, contributors are invited to submit chapter proposals focusing (but not limited to) the following themes regarding Pride Events:
- Pride and Human Rights
- Grassroot politics and de-politicisation
- Commodification, Commercialisation, and Corporate Sponsorship
- Pluralising and decolonising the Histories of Pride Events
- Accessibility and Disability
- Trans Rights and Transphobia
- Racism, discrimination
- Alternative(s) (to) Pride Events
- Pinkwashing and Homonationalism
- Migration and Border Violence
- Environmental activism and Sustainability
We are particularly interested in chapter proposals that centre Global Majority countries. We are seeking expression of interest by scholars of any stage of career and would be looking for an extended abstract that highlight the argument and contribution of the chapter.
Extended abstracts (1000 words) should be sent to Dr Francesca Romana Ammaturo ([email protected]) and Dr Koen Slootmaeckers ([email protected]), with the subject line: “Extended abstract for Pride Book” by 15 January 2025.
Project Timeline:
Call for chapters:
Pride Events have become the most paradigmatic type of events held annually by different LGBTQIA+ communities across the world. These events play different roles, from awareness-raising to community-building, from representation of different experiences, to advancing social and political claims, often connected to human rights issues (Ammaturo, 2016, 2023; Armstrong and Crage, 2006; Browne, 2007; Duggan, 2010; Renkin, 2015; Stella, 2013; Woodcock, 2004). Furthermore, Pride Events have multiplied across both urban and rural locations (Ammaturo, 2016), diversifying the repertoire, priorities, and tactics to engage both the local LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as bystanders and the wider civil society.
Yet, there are also controversies surrounding the organisation of Pride Events, in particular in relation to their commercialisation and commodification (Conway, 2022; Domínguez Ruiz, 2019), the de-politicisation of these events in favour of more ‘party-like’ events (Browne, 2007; Markwell and Waitt, 2009), their co-optation within other political projects (Ammaturo, 2016; Mikuš, 2011; Slootmaeckers, 2017), as well as rifts regarding the representation of marginalised groups within these events such as QTIPOC, trans people, disabled people, migrants, etc (Barrientos et al., 2010; Greensmith and Giwa, 2013; Radoman, 2016; Scott, 2017).
We are keen to bring together Pride scholars to create a new book on the politics of Pride events across the world. In the book, we welcome contributions that interrogate challenges and opportunities in the organisation of Pride Events at the global scale, with an intention to de-centre Eurocentric and US-centric narratives on Pride Events. For this reason, contributors are invited to submit chapter proposals focusing (but not limited to) the following themes regarding Pride Events:
- Pride and Human Rights
- Grassroot politics and de-politicisation
- Commodification, Commercialisation, and Corporate Sponsorship
- Pluralising and decolonising the Histories of Pride Events
- Accessibility and Disability
- Trans Rights and Transphobia
- Racism, discrimination
- Alternative(s) (to) Pride Events
- Pinkwashing and Homonationalism
- Migration and Border Violence
- Environmental activism and Sustainability
We are particularly interested in chapter proposals that centre Global Majority countries. We are seeking expression of interest by scholars of any stage of career and would be looking for an extended abstract that highlight the argument and contribution of the chapter.
Extended abstracts (1000 words) should be sent to Dr Francesca Romana Ammaturo ([email protected]) and Dr Koen Slootmaeckers ([email protected]), with the subject line: “Extended abstract for Pride Book” by 15 January 2025.
Project Timeline:
- Submission of extended abstracts: 15 January 2025
- Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2025
- First draft of chapter: 1 October 2025