CFP: Forum pieces wanted from for special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies on 'Rethinking Makeover and Transformation' (open to postgraduate and early career researchers) We are editing a special edition of the International Journal of Cultural Studies with the theme of 'Rethinking Makeover and Transformation' and are interested in receiving short submissions (up to 1,500 words) from postgraduate and early career researchers for this journal. These articles should take the form of short case studies, with the aim of encouraging exchange and debate. We are looking for articles that engage with ideas of makeover or transformation outside of the more 'traditional' contexts. Topics might include, but are not limited to: * Technologies, remastering, reformatting and re-releasing albums, films and/or television shows * Transformations and rebranding of political or public figures * The power of spoofs/satire/etc to transform perceptions/readings of the 'original' texts * The 'ex-gay' or 'post-gay' movement and public debates over the possibility of 'transformation' * PR strategies and 'reforming' public image * Newspaper discussion of 'criminality' and 'reform' * Drag performances and transformation/makeover * The marketing of sport as a transformative experience * Restoration, makeover and transformation of heritage architecture * Makeover/transformation of the individual's online persona * Competing discourses of 'transformation' and 'acceptance' regarding 'unusual' bodies (e.g. TV programmes such as Katie Piper: My Beautiful Friends (Channel 4 2011) or Beauty and the Beast (Channel 4 2011/12) * Transformation narratives within horror films Submission information All pieces should be 1500 words, including references and bibliography (using the SAGE Harvard style: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/SAGE_Harvard_reference_sty...) Please send full submissions, along with an author biography to both editors: Feona Attwood (feonaattwood@gmail.com<mailto:feonaattwood@gmail.com>) and Ruth Deller (r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk<mailto:r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk>) by Friday November 16, 2012.