Editorial: Greetings from the new editors

lambda nordica

Greetings from the new editors IT IS A great honor, privilege and pleasure to step up as the new editors of lambda nordica. The change of editors can be likened to a crossroads of sorts in the journey of a journal. Whilst we will build on the established practices and ambitions of lambda that we inherit from the previous editors, Ulrika Dahl and Jenny Björklund, new editors also necessarily mean new perspectives and ideas. With our first editorial, we would like to invite readers into our ongoing conversations and thoughts on the journey ahead for lambda nordica, both as an academic journal and as a broader platform to support and promote queer scholarship, debate, and community, inside and beyond the academy. Certainly, the lambda nordica of today is a testament to the dedication to LGBTQ+ and queer studies, and to struggles and engagement with these concepts and fields, that in the Nordic context stretches over decades, and we are happy and humbled to take our departure in the formidable legacy of Björklund and Dahl. In the past decade, editors Dahl and Björklund have, with the support of the Board, undertaken the delicate and difficult task to establish lambda nordica as the principal academic journal for queer and LGBTQ+ scholarship in Nordic Europe, all the while resisting the powerful push towards incorporation into the commercialized academic publishing industry. And so today, lambda nordica is one of the very few independent peer-reviewed academic journals in the world in the field of queer and

Anthropology of Consciousness, 2013

Greetings from the new editors IT IS A great honor, privilege and pleasure to step up as the new editors of lambda nordica. The change of editors can be likened to a crossroads of sorts in the journey of a journal. Whilst we will build on the established practices and ambitions of lambda that we inherit from the previous editors, Ulrika Dahl and Jenny Björklund, new editors also necessarily mean new perspectives and ideas. With our first editorial, we would like to invite readers into our ongoing conversations and thoughts on the journey ahead for lambda nordica, both as an academic journal and as a broader platform to support and promote queer scholarship, debate, and community, inside and beyond the academy. Certainly, the lambda nordica of today is a testament to the dedication to LGBTQ+ and queer studies, and to struggles and engagement with these concepts and fields, that in the Nordic context stretches over decades, and we are happy and humbled to take our departure in the formidable legacy of Björklund and Dahl. In the past decade, editors Dahl and Björklund have, with the support of the Board, undertaken the delicate and difficult task to establish lambda nordica as the principal academic journal for queer and LGBTQ+ scholarship in Nordic Europe, all the while resisting the powerful push towards incorporation into the commercialized academic publishing industry. And so today, lambda nordica is one of the very few independent peer-reviewed academic journals in the world in the field of queer and

2017

AMONG THE MOST frequently repeated stories in queer scholarship nowadays are those concerning the social and spatial localization of queer. Narratives of how queer has occupied and inhabited specific language and cultural areas, and how it has been "domesticated" in different contexts, involve a plot line told time and again. This focus has also informed attempts at finding a queer "common ground" in the Nordic territory. Challenges related to the localization of queer in a Nordic context are also embedded in the framework of a Nordic-oriented journal, such as lambda nordica. At a meeting with the journal's editorial committee in Stockholm last year, the "Nordic country representatives" were asked to prepare a response to the question: "What is going on in Denmark, Finland, and Norway?" It may be argued, and indeed is the contention of this article's authors, that Sweden often functions as the default mode of and location for "Nordic queer," for example in terms of citational practice, institutional visibility, and activist sensibility. The present authors-located in Denmark (Danbolt), Finland (Ilmonen) and Norway (Engebretsen) respectively-therefore wanted to explore these other narratives and locations of Nordic queer, comparatively and critically, and to outline certain key particularities and connections that might clarify and open up the field of Nordic queer beyond the dominant Swedish point of reference.

Feminist Critique, 2021

With much excitement and anticipation, and anxiousness, we here commence QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. "Overture" is used deliberately. Of course, these brief prefatory remarks, and the voices that make up the contents of this inaugural issue, introduce this new journal. But just as important, they constitute an invitation, a proposition, an appeal to diverse readers to collaborate with us in creating and circulating what will appear in future issues-which we hope will be many issues and many voices across many years to come.

Scholars working in queer studies, both in and out of academia, are still often marginalized; one of the aspects of this marginalization is the lack of publishing venues, which discourages potentially original and creative researchers from pursuing their interest in queer studies, and from contributing to the development of the field. This has a negative impact on both the queer studies community and on scholarly, social and political discourse in general. Whatever exists to facilitate a dialogue among researchers who work in any field related to queer studies. We are excited that scholars the world over are spinning queer outwards in a range of new and promising directions, such as neuroqueer, animal queer, queer economies, queer pedadogies, the queer politics of migration, and many more. Their daring and original work is a powerful testimonial to the productivity and vitality of a cluster of theories which deserve to be more widely known and applied, both in scholarship, teaching, and research, and in activism, advocacy, and policy-making. The purpose of Whatever is to offer scholars working in queer studies, in and out of academia, a place to share their work, to reach like-minded readers, to initiate collaborations, to make things happen. We aim to foster a diverse and mutually respectful community among scholars of different backgrounds, research interests, methodological allegiances and disciplinary affiliations. The first issue of Whatever, which will soon be online at whatever.cirque.unipi.it, will include a selection of papers from the first CIRQUE conference, which took place in L'Aquila (Italy) in the spring of 2017. We are now inviting submissions for the second issue. Each upcoming issue of Whatever will include a general section, which will host papers dealing with any and all aspects of queer theories and studies, and several themed sections, each curated by an independent editorial

Lambda Nordica, 2021

Lambda Nordica, 2021