Extension of the deadline for sending texts for the 2026 dossier “Our bodies, too, are homeland: arts, territories, and corporeality”

Revista PerCursos– Faed/Udesc extended until 09/22/2025 the deadline for sending articles, reviews, interviews, and Portuguese translations of unpublished articles related to the theme of the dossier “Our bodies, too, are homeland: arts, territories, and corporeality”

This dossier aims to bring together articles, interviews, reviews, and translations that engage with the field of gender politics and bodily practices, with an emphasis on the multiple conceptualizations of borders—whether geographic, identity-related, anatomical, or otherwise—recognizing the complexity and diversity of meanings this concept can encompass. Drawing on Anzaldúa (2012), we understand that borders are not merely physical or geographic barriers, but also cultural, psychological, and social spaces inhabited by those who challenge established norms—those who are “atravesados”, individuals positioned at the margins, outside what is deemed normative or acceptable.

Considering that bodies are political, we invite research that engages in analyses and approaches aimed at advancing the scientific understanding of emerging logics surrounding artivism, resistance, identity claims, and confrontations with social inequality. This dossier seeks to analyze manifestations across various borders—of bodies, identities, genders, and nationalities—to explore differences and possibilities for action in the public sphere. Our objective is to examine practices within specific social, cultural, political, and personal contexts that seek to transform these spaces, often through the use of the body itself.

We welcome articles that address, but are not limited to, the following topics: displaced bodies and migrations; bodies and spaces of political resistance; transgressive bodies in art; contemporary bodily artivism: social and political borders; fashion and the affirmation of identities; the intersection of body and music; e representations of gender and the body in cinema.

This dossier is multidisciplinary, inviting contributions from a wide range of academic fields, including cultural sociology and the arts, anthropology, art history, geography, psychology, cultural studies, media studies, politics, fashion, linguistics, design, cinema, music, and visual culture.

The dossier will be part of the 2026 edition and will be organized by professors Júlia de Almeida Mello (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo), Paula Guerra (Universidade do Porto, Portugal), Voica Pușcașiu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romênia) e Angels Bronsoms (Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona)

The rules for submission are available on the journal’s website:

https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/percursos/about/submissions