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Hi all - this may be of interest to scholars in the network who research with
space/place/geography? And possibly of further interest if you research in Finland or with
Finns? Submissions in Finnish, Swedish or English!
Joe 🙂
THEME: Queer Spaces and Cartographies
Full call also Suomeksi: https://sqsseura.fi/cfp-queer-spaces-and-cartographies/
Deadline for 300-word abstracts: 4th May, 2026
Full call and submission information in English:
Call for Papers (CFP): Queer Spaces and Cartographies
SQS – Special Issue of the Journal of the Finnish Society for Queer Studies
Queer life has always been spatial. It has been formed along routes, in places, rooms,
parks,
beaches, bars, homes, post offices, letters, maps, and memories. At the same time, queer
spaces have often been temporary, concealed, networked, and difficult to archive. They
have
emerged through movement, encounters, circulations, and affective attachments that do not
always leave behind permanent material traces.
This special issue invites contributors to examine queerness from the perspectives of
space,
emplacement, and cartography. We understand cartography not merely as a geographical
mode of representation, but more broadly as a way of structuring, perceiving, and
producing
spatial relations: routes, networks, sites of memory, archival blind spots, passages,
hiding
places, meeting points, and affective landscapes.
Queer cartographies may refer, for example, to the appropriation of urban space, cruising
cultures, queer life in rural and peripheral areas, diasporic networks, correspondence and
postal infrastructures, digital platforms, sites of remembrance, or the material and
immaterial remains of archives. Spaces may be as much concrete as they are constituted
through memory, narratives, and sensory experience.
The special issue encourages reflection on how queer spaces come into being, how they are
used, remembered, mapped, and how they disappear. How is it possible to trace queerness
spatially even when no direct traces remain? What kinds of alternative cartographies does
queer life call for?
We invite proposals addressing, for instance, the following themes:
• Queer spaces and urban geography
• Cruising, movement, and spatial encounter
• Queer memory, place, and sensory biography
• Cartography as a research method in queer studies
• Post, correspondence, networks, and spatial infrastructures
• Archival blind spots and queer provenance
• Digital queer spaces and networks
• Periphery, rurality, and non-metropolitan queer space
• Queer spaces in art, literature, and visual culture
• Historical formations of queer spaces
We welcome peer-reviewed articles as well as other research-based texts, such as essays,
interventions, reviews, interviews, and artistic writings. Methodologically experimental
and
spatially innovative approaches are particularly encouraged.
Abstracts (maximum 300 words) should be sent in a Word document to joseph.jukes(a)tuni.fi
by the 4th May 2026. We will notify the authors of accepted abstracts by 25th May, 2026.
Manuscripts are due by 30th October, 2026, and revised versions will be finalized during
the
beginning of 2027. All submissions will be edited in collaboration with the authors.
Submissions may be in Finnish, Swedish, or English.
SQS is an open-access scholarly online journal. Previous issues are available at:
https://journal.fi/sqs/issue/archive
For further information, please contact the special issue editors: Joe Jukes (@tuni.fi),
Emilia
Brusila (@ulapland.fi), Leena-Maija Rossi, Kari Silvola
Joe Jukes (they/them)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Project: Picture Me: presenting queer visual history
@joejukes.bsky.social<https://bsky.app/profile/joejukes.bsky.social>
Read more about my research
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Recent publications:
Jukes, J. (2025) LGBTQ+ friendship and spatial commitments: Queer socialities in the
making of a new rural. In Bain, AL., Podmore, JA. and Arun-Pina, C. (Eds.) Queer
Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives. Access
here<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398152089_LGBTQ_friendship….
Garcia Lopez, M., Brownhill, S., Gaggiotti, M. and Jukes, J. (2025) The Process (2023):
Non-Professional Film Performance and Representing Embodied Trauma through Documentary.
Open Screens, 7(3): pp. 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/os.18695
