Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the ROTURA journal is ongoing until april 30th, 2025

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The call for papers for CIAC’s ROTURA — Journal of Communication, Culture, and Arts is underway. The thematic dossier will be focused on “Situated and shared visuality: representations of and by women”. The period for submitting articles closes on April 30th, 2025.

The aim of this edition is “in line with the postulates of feminist epistemology, we will explore the relationships among power, knowledge, and representation by attending to visual narratives with transformative potential drawn from collaborative creation, proposals for thought, action, or analysis that imagine and open up closed possibilities” (Butler, 2020). Aspires to understand “the power of contemporary representations that arise from the relationship between people and images and spur us into action” (García Varas, 2019) and to investigate the question of how to articulate new and/or radical ways of questioning the dominant systems of cultural production by and of women.

This proposal is framed with “the intention of activating a collective reflection on the modes of visual representation of and by women that imply a political, non-neutral location” (Rich, 1994), and pays attention to a situated visuality that is articulated through embodied and corporeal practices of representation because, as Haraway (1995) points out, “no knowledge is detached from its context or from the subjectivity of the person who emits it, (…) and occupying a place implies responsibility in our practices.”

Contributions are expected to address the following thematic-analytical axes: imaginaries and myths about ruralities from contemporary culture and art; archive images, image archives from an ethical and feminist perspective; cultural mediations and embodied visualities; women as narrators of stories and imaginaries through visual and audiovisual representations, behind the camera or in front of the gaze; visions that explore the relationship between land and visuality, and how this interaction is affected by issues of gender and power; studies on the production and circulation of images that challenge dominant narratives and propose new ways of seeing, thinking, feeling, and/or being.

The editing of this issue of the ROTURA journal will be led by Gema Pastor Andrés (Rey Juan Carlos University), Diana Fernández Romero (Rey Juan Carlos University) e Silvia Magro Vela (Rey Juan Carlos University).

Important Dates:
Deadline for article submission: 30-04-2025
Notification of acceptance: 28-06-2025

Submission of final version: 13-09-2025

Publication: 30-09-2025

The call for the Varia section, which hosts free-themed articles, as well as Reviews, Art Chronicles and Interviews remains open in a continuous flow.

More information (here).

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