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We’re pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new journal in 2015 titled Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The first issue will be published this month!
Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the discussion of boyhood, young masculinities, and boys’ lives by exploring the full scale of intricacies, challenges, and legacies that inform male and masculine developments. Boyhood Studies is committed to a critical and international scope and solicits both articles and special issue proposals from a variety of research fields including, but not limited to, the social and psychological sciences, historical and cultural studies, philosophy, and social, legal, and health studies.
Read the table of contents for the first issue here.
Read an excerpt, written by editor Diederik F. Janssen, from the Editorial of the first issue:
I am most excited to be announcing the first issue of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The journal continues Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, seven volumes of which were published between 2007 and 2013 by The Men’s Studies Press. Boyhood Studies will complement the prize-winning title Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, published by Berghahn since 2008.
Having co-nurtured Thymos, initially with Miles Groth of Wagner College, on the basis of two exploratory bibliographies on boyhood and girlhood studies (unofficially web-published first in June 2005), I feel thrilled about the vitality and now co-residence of both journals ten years onward. Over the years, both journals have featured a wide range of scholarship, and have been helpful in imagining what, thereby, became eponymous fields of scholarship. I am most privileged to be able to thank both Dr. James Doyle of The Men’s Studies Press for his unrelenting dedication, his energy, and continued intellectual companionship, and Vivian Berghahn and the Berghahn production team, for their vision, support, and hard work in making this re-launch a possibility.
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As originally envisioned in Thymos, we hope that Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal will be of help in making sense of all the awards, nominations, views, comments, and criticism that boy culture is, apparently, able to elicit. What (analytic) gaze do boys, young and older, deserve? What spectacle do they present to the observing eye, beyond that of the remnants or ruins of patriarchy? What do boys need from teachers, parents, friends, and loved ones? What are the latter asking of the boy? Historical, anthropological,
and practice-based contributions are all welcomed—they are all needed—to answer these global questions.
DIEDERIK F. JANSSEN is an independent researcher residing in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. A co-founder and later editor of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies (The Men’s Studies Press 2007-2013), he is editor of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Berghahn Journals), founding and current editor of Culture, Society & Masculinities (The Men’s Studies Press), and managing editor of The Journal of Men’s Studies (Sage).
Berghahn Journals is delighted to announce that we will begin publishing three new journals in 2015!
These new publications will cover a range of topics across disciplines and promote academic discussion through articles, reviews, interviews, special sections, and more. For more information, please see below or click through to access the journals’ respective websites.
Boyhood Studies – An Interdisciplinary Journal
Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the discussion of boyhood, young masculinities, and boys’ lives by exploring the full scale of intricacies, challenges, and legacies that inform male and masculine developments. Boyhood Studies is committed to a critical and international scope and solicits both articles and special issue proposals from a variety of research fields including, but not limited to, the social and psychological sciences, historical and cultural studies, philosophy, and social, legal, and health studies.
One of the core missions of the journal is to initiate conversation among disciplines, research angles, and intellectual viewpoints. Both theoretical and empirical contributions fit the journal’s scope with critical literature reviews and review essays also welcomed. Possible topics include boyish and tomboyish genders; boys and schooling; boys and (post)feminisms; the folklore, mythology, and poetics of “male development”; son-parent and male student-teacher relations; young masculinities in the digital and postdigital ages; young sexualities; as well as representations of boyhoods across temporalities, geographies, and cultures.
Conflict and Society – Advances in Research
Organized violence — war, armed revolt, genocide, lynching, targeted killings, torture, routine discrimination, terrorism, trauma and suffering — is a daily reality for some while for others it is a sound bite or news clip seen in passing and easily forgotten. Rigorous scholarly research of the social and cultural conditions of organized violence, its genesis, dynamic, and impact, is fundamental to addressing questions of local and global conflict and its impact on the human condition.
Publishing peer-reviewed articles by international scholars, Conflict and Society expands the field of conflict studies by using ethnographic inquiry to establish new fields of research and interdisciplinary collaboration. An opening special section presents general articles devoted to a topic or region followed by a section featuring conceptual debates on key problems in the study of organized violence. Review articles and topical overviews offer navigational assistance across the vast and varied terrain of conflict research and comprehensive reviews of new books round out each volume. With special attention paid to ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of conflict studies research, including military-academic cooperation, Conflict and Society will be an essential forum for scholars, researchers, and policy makers in the fields of anthropology, sociology, political science, and development studies.
Screen Bodies is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the intersection of Screen Studies and Body Studies across disciplines, institutions, and media. It is a forum promoting the discussion of research and practices through articles, reviews, and interviews that investigate various aspects of embodiment on and in front of screens. The journal considers moving and still images, whether as entertainment or for information through cinema, television, and the Internet; through the private experiences of portable and personal devices; or in institutional settings such as medical and surveillance imaging. Screen Bodies considers the portrayal, function, and reception of the body presented and conceptualized through the lenses of gender and sexuality, feminism and masculinity, trans* studies, queer theory, critical race theory, cyborg studies, and dis/ability studies.
