*CFP* "EMERGING MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TOURIST ENCOUNTER", SPECIAL ISSUE, TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES JOURNAL

This special issue examines practices, meanings and impacts of emerging media technologies: digital, mobile, geo/locative and augmented reality technologies within tourism geographies. The special issue aims to situate emerging media technologies within processes of the production and transformation of space, spatial knowledge and social relations within the tourist encounter. We ask contributors to the special issue to consider: What are the configurations of different technologies involved with tourist experiences? In what ways do emerging media technologies shape tourism imaginaries and experiences? What are the particular cultural inflections in the relationship between digital and tourist practices? How do broader infrastructural and economic conditions shape the relationships between digital and tourist practices?

Papers in this special issue will explore the unfolding contexts of media, digital and emerging technologies in tourism geographies across breadth and depth and may include the following topics:

• Culturally and geographically situated explorations of digital practices in tourist sites (including empirical investigations into travel photography, virtual reality headsets, online travel writing, and travel vlogs) 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, SPRING 2022 GENERAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES OF TURKEY

An international biannual print and on-line publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.

The Editorial Board welcomes articles which cross conventional borders between academic disciplines, as well as comparative studies of the United States.

The Journal of American Studies of Turkey is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, TÜBİTAK/ULAKBİM TR Dizin, and the Classificazione ANVUR delle riviste scientifiche (Italy). It also appears in the Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory and the MLA Directory of Periodicals. It can be accessed online, in print, and through the EBSCO and Dergi Park databases.  

Please see our submission guidelines for how to submit your manuscripts.

*CFP* "MEDIATING ARCTIC GEOGRAPHIES: CONTEMPORARY IMAGINARIES OF THE CIRCUMPOLAR WORLD", CONFERENCE

Mediating Arctic Geographies: Contemporary Imaginaries of the Circumpolar World

Inari, Finland

24-26 January 2022

 

Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Arctic (understood here as the circumpolar region around and north of the Arctic Circle) has entered worldwide public discussion to an unprecedented extent. As a global climate archive and the site of various scrambles for resources, it has become the centre of attention within debates on climate change and global geopolitics. The international stir created by the planting of a Russian flag under the Arctic sea ice in 2007 and a Chinese flag at the North Pole in 2012, the politicisation of the recovery of the two shipwrecks from John Franklin’s disastrous 1845 expedition in 2014 and 2016, and Donald Trump’s controversial overturning of Barack Obama’s ban on oil drilling in the Arctic are spectacular examples of this new hypervisibility of the Arctic in international politics and global media.

*CFP* "MEDIATING ARCTIC GEOGRAPHIES: CONTEMPORARY IMAGINARIES OF THE CIRCUMPOLAR WORLD", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Mediating Arctic Geographies: Contemporary Imaginaries of the Circumpolar World

Inari, Finland, 11-12 August 2021

Tampere University

 

Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Arctic (understood here as the circumpolar region around and north of the Arctic Circle) has entered worldwide public discussion to an unprecedented extent. As a global climate archive and the site of various scrambles for resources, it has become the centre of attention within debates on climate change and global geopolitics. The international stir created by the planting of a Russian flag under the Arctic sea ice in 2007 and a Chinese flag at the North Pole in 2012, the politicisation of the recovery of the two shipwrecks from John Franklin’s disastrous 1845 expedition in 2014 and 2016, and Donald Trump’s controversial overturning of Barack Obama’s ban on oil drilling in the Arctic are spectacular examples of this new hypervisibility of the Arctic in international politics and global media.

*CFP* "DISSONANT LOVES: THE CONVIVIALITY OF CONTEMPORARY SOUND DIASPORAS", EDITED VOLUME

We are seeking contributors to an upcoming edited volume to be published by Routledge. The contents of the book are to be framed around the living transmission of diaspora through sound in (speech, everyday life, media, computation, music, history) over diverse spaces and times drawing upon cases from around the globe. The intention of the book is not simply to map these formations but to evaluate the resources they provide as convivial formations – in the context of reconfigured global capitalism, augmented nationalism and racism, and sound’s uneven capture in computation. 

The volume aspires to incorporate a wide range of voices, their hopes, fears and living realities. The book will be culturally focussed whilst not disregarding the materialities of sound. We welcome interest from anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, ethnomusicologists, cultural theorists and others with an interest in the multiplicity of ways in which diasporic sound cultures are transmitted and lived. In doing so the volume will move away from a sonic eurocentricism that until recently has dominated sonic epistemologies and contribute to a critical re-appraisal of the role of sound in contemporary global modernity.

*CFP* "OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS", BOOK CHAPTER

We are living in a digital era where most of our daily activities take place both through applications and computers. This causes the big data phenomenon which is an important subject for scientific research with increasing of available tools and processing power. As a natural outcome of this trend, a growing number of social science scholars are using computational methods for analyzing social behavior. Theories of social sciences such as agenda setting, selective exposure and two-step of information flow have been using as a theoretical backbone by many computational researchers. The methods of computational social science do not mean that a method is only executed on a computer – social science scholars have been using computers in their research for a long time. Computational social science methods in research are expansion and enhancement of the existing methodological toolbox.

 

Objective

*CFP* "FASHION, BODY AND CULTURE", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

"Fashion, Body and Culture" International Conference

30-31 January 2021

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

 

Applying diverse methods from across subject disciplines the conference will explore fashion and style in wide-ranging contexts. It will examine connections between fashion, body and culture and will focus on dress, cosmetics, coiffure and body alterations (piercing, tattooing, circumcision, aesthetic surgery, etc).

How does our dress or hair style create our identity and status? How is it concerned with sexual and body politics? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal or unique to Western culture? These and other questions we set out to discuss at the conference.

*CFP* "WORLDS OF IMAGINATION: MEDIA, PLACE AND TOURISM IN TODAY'S GLOBAL WORLD", ONLINE 2021 CONFERENCE OF ROTTERDAM

Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World

7th-9th April, 2021

Online conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

In today’s globalized, transnational and digitalized media environment, popular culture plays a significant role in the establishment and (re)negotiation of place identities and the ways in which people relate to physical locations. Traveling to film locations, participating in fan re-enactments or visiting theme parks are some of the varied and multifaceted ways in which the ties between people’s worlds of imagination and the real worlds they inhabit are made tangible through place.

 

This conference highlights the interconnections between media, tourism and place and aims to bring together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in this process while focusing on critical issues accompanying this multifaceted phenomenon. 

*CFP* "(IN)VISIBILITY IN GLOBAL COMMUNICATION: CONNECTIONS AND INEQUITIES", GLOBAL FUSION 2020 (VIRTUAL) CONFERENCE

(In)visibility in Global Communication: Connections & Inequities

Global Fusion 2020 (Virtual) Conference

October 9-11, 2020

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Global Fusion conference, held annually by an innovative consortium of mass communication programs from institutions of higher education in the United States. This will be our  first-ever virtual gathering, in order to avoid the risks of in-person gatherings in the age of the novel coronavirus pandemic. We are committed to having a 2020 conference given the need for serious discussion of vital global communication issues in the face of planetary challenges, in particular the current pandemic, the impacts of global climate change and a seeming collapse of democratic structures.

We invite original, non-published research submissions on any aspect of global media and international aspects of mediated communication. We encourage special attention be paid to issues of scale and accessibility, class, and notions of “resilience” during this global pandemic and the increasingly frequent climate-driven disasters befalling populations worldwide. Given these circumstances, how should we study contemporary global discourses and the varied mass communication systems which deliver them?

*CFP* "MAPPING CITIES IN THE MENA REGION: VISUALISING THE UNTOLD NARRATIVES OF HERITAGE", BOOK CHAPTERS

Stories behind the current social and physical features of many cities in the MENA region remain untold. Whether through the application of urban theories, historic facts, interviews, or other methods, the colours or pinpointed locations on a city map tell a new or a different narrative of these cities.

Visualisations and maps are powerful tools to tell such stories. Whether narratives of the physical features that divide a city, tales from a city that are only known to its locals, stories of planning schemes that have changed the city or a colonial past that camouflage itself. Some maps use alternative methods in order to tell an alternative narrative or illustrate a different perspective. The contributions should focus on mapping phenomena that considers heritage on a city‐scale (not on singular structures, parks, nor on an entire region).


The Book Content: Chapters and Maps

*CFP* "LIQUIDITY, FLOWS, CIRCULATION: THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF ENVIRONMENTALIZATION", INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 2020

Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

Dec 10-11, 2020

International Workshop, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

It has become a truism that capital circulates, that data, populations and materials flow, that money offers liquidity. Investigating the production of these movements and states from a logistical perspective, the proposed workshop focusses on issues of endless, frictionless circulations and continuous flow to investigate their specific logic. Our assumption is that nothing circulates or flows without also being regulated. This places us within the discussions of environmentality, of regulation, modulation and control through the environment and qua processes of becoming-environmental.

Focussing on concrete spaces of circulation, flow and liquidity, as well as their cultural (re)presentation, we want to discuss whether there is a cultural logic of environmentalization that revisits and perhaps radically revises the notion of the cultural logic of late capitalism famously described by Fredric Jameson.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, MARCH 2021 ISSUE, THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES JOURNAL

Arts and Humanities is a multidisciplinary journal and encourages interdisciplinary approaches. Since 2013, it has regularly  published one issue per year in print version.

The journal publishes articles in a wide range of topics related to Arts and Humanities including literature, linguistics, history, geography, philosophy, anthropology, and  psychology. The journal is peer-reviewed and aims to publish outstanding scholarship on all facets and periods of Arts and Humanities areas.

There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.

Arts and Humanitie is accepting articles. Please send original manuscripts of 5000-7000 words in MLA style no later than October 15, 2020. Earlier submissions are encouraged. Manuscripts and queries should be sent to yousfi.m.a@hotmail.com and bendrisshager@gmail.com

 Publication date: March 2021

 Contact: bendrisshager@gmail.com

*CFP* "LONDON'S EAST END: A SHORT ENCYCLOPEDIA", CHAPTER BOOK

From the transient street art of Banksy and Pablo Delgado to the exhibitions of Doreen Fletcher and Gilbert and George; from the novels of Charles Dickens and Monica Ali to televisual series produced by the BBC and ITV; and from early eighteenth-century churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor to twenty-first century skyscrapers conceived by Norman Foster, the East End is an iconic area of London.

In the span of four hundred years, the region to the east of the Tower of London, and north of the River Thames, has undergone a series of transformations. In the sixteenth century, it was arable land with a few dispersed villages. By the nineteenth century, it was one of Europe’s worst urban slums and an object of investigation for literary writers, social scientists, philanthropists, Salvationists, and journalists with a bent for the sensational.

*CFP* "PICTURING POST-INDUSTRIALISM", EDITED VOLUME

Since the 1970s, many of Europe's one-time industrial landscapes have been redefined as locations of leisure through art and visual culture. The best of these projects typically imagine the uneven, contradictory, and often troubled transitions to post-industrialization. However, regeneration efforts can also make invisible the work, labour and production of the past. Similarly, they often cover up the ecological spoils and social devastation of the present. Picturing Post-Industrialism is an edited collection that will investigate artistic initiatives that make the industrial past visible, negotiable, reimaginable in the wake of closures, unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities across Europe.

Art and visual culture incorporating the residues at and of former industry at post-industrial sites continue to thrive across Europe – including the former coal and steel production plants in Duisburg and other Ruhr Valley cities, the shipyards of Gdańsk, Newcastle and Bilbao, the coal mines of Loir, Silesia and the English Midlands, the textile factories of Łódź and other Eastern European cities, breweries in Kladno, petrol and oil refineries in Ploiești and Cluj, Romania. Picturing Post-Industrialism will examine art and visual culture at these and other European sites for their aesthetic, historical, and geographical role within regeneration and re-articulation efforts.

*CFP* “VISUAL DEPICTIONS OF THE AMERICAN WEST. HOW THE WEST WAS DRWAN AND WHAT IT SHOWED US”, 2020 CONFERENCE

Visual Depictions of The American West. How the west was drawn and what it showed us. 

16-20 de Noviembre de 2020

University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy

The American West has been depicted for decades through comic books and graphic novels, including by many authors living outside the U.S. Some of the most famous titles and artists are the Tex Willer series (Tex) by Giovanni Luigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini, Blueberry by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud, Bessy and Buffalo Bill, two Flemish titles published through the Belgian Vandersteen publishing company, and Jerry Spring by Joseph Gillain, all published in the decades following World War II. Even Louis L’Amour’s Western novels have been retold through a recent collection entitled Law of the Desert Born. Significantly, more contemporary comic and graphic novel titles and authors, rather than romanticizing the U.S.’s western past, depict the history of its colonization and the use of race as an ideological vector. Notably, Native American graphic novelists and comic book creators are part of this emerging new literary wave, telling stories of history, conflict, resistance, and activism from a perspective that has been long overlooked—and overdue. 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, 2020 REGULAR ISSUE, NORDIC IRISH STUFIES JOURNAL

Nordic Irish Studies is looking for submissions on any aspect within the field of Irish Studies for the 2020 regular issue (December 2020). Nordic Irish Studies is a peer-reviewed journal. It is listed in MLA, JSTOR, EBSCO-Host databases.

The aim of the journal is to publish original, quality research by literature specialists, historians, social scientists, political scientists, musicologists, and geographers, as well as by scholars from other disciplines included in the field of Irish Studies. Nordic Irish Studies supports both the publication of inter-disciplinary work, and studies rooted in the methodologies and theories of the individual scholars’ disciplines.

Submissions should conform to the MLA style manual and range from 5,000 to 7,000 words, including endnotes. Any references to the author(s) should be omitted in the attached essay to ensure blind review. Receipt of manuscripts will be confirmed on arrival. Submissions should also include an abstract (ca. 200 words), five key words, as well as a separate file containing the author(s)’ information – full name(s), affiliation, contact information, and a short biographical note of approximately 150 words.

*CFP* “MIGRATION AND RELIGION”, THE MIGRATION 2020 CONFERENCE

The Migration Conference

Migration and Religion

2-5 de Junio de 2020

South East European University, North Macedonia

The Religion and Migration track invites the submission of papers exploring all facets of the intersections of mobility, migration, and religion. 

All papers presented at the conference must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference. Structured abstracts (up to 500 words) are invited for submission.

Structured long abstracts should state clearly the objectives, referring to relevant literature, methods, results and conclusions of the work, and should be no more than 500 words in length.

Up to 5-6 key references cited in the abstract can be given and these are not included in the word count.

*CFP* “PLACE, SPACE AND THE DETECTIVE NARRATIVE”, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE

The complex actions that transpire in transnational geopolitical spaces, including but not limited to issues of migration, reconfiguration of borders, the (d)evolution of trade alliances, and wars on terror, continue to complicate twentieth-century grand narratives of nationalism. The crime genre concerns itself with these complications, and the detective narrative traditionally explores the preservation and violation of the societal borders that circumscribe these issues and the nations involved. However, much scholarship on crime fiction—e.g. John Cawelti (1977) to Lee Horsley (2005)—has critiqued the genre for upholding the status quo with its focus on the preservation of established borders; for example, such scholarship tends to argue that working within a legal system inherently maintains a preexisting social order.

As scholarship on crime fiction attends to the violations of societal borders illustrated in detective fiction, scholars must grapple with popular culture’s attitudes toward national, transnational, and global issues. For its special issue on “Place, Space, and the Detective Narrative,” The Journal of Popular Culture seeks articles that explore how depictions of place and/or space in detective narratives engage with these complicated contexts. We are especially interested in arguments that challenge the established scholarly narrative of crime fiction’s role in upholding the political status quo.

*CFP* "CINE ESPAÑOL, TURISMO Y ESPACIO GEOGRÁFICO", Nº30, REVISTA L'ATALANTE

Al pensar en los conceptos cine y turismo la mente evoca de forma inmediata la noción de imaginario, que emerge vinculada al reconocimiento de la extraordinaria capacidad del arte cinematográfico para colonizar con sus imágenes la imaginación y la memoria espectatorial proyectándolas en ideas y deseos que pueden dar lugar a actividades consecuentes diversas. Y precisamente en esa colonización del imaginario los espacios mostrados por las películas constituyen uno de los elementos cruciales para establecer un vínculo entre el cine y el turismo. Todo ello porque, merced a la pregnancia de las imágenes en movimiento, el cine –ya desde sus orígenes– ha venido propiciando a sus espectadores la posibilidad de realizar viajes virtuales mientras disfrutaban las películas desde la quietud de sus butacas. En paralelo, esas ficciones cinematográficas iban conformando el imaginario, social e individual, sobre los múltiples espacios naturales y urbanos que sirven de escenario a las ficciones fílmicas despertando el interés del público por conocerlos y, por lo mismo, transformándolos en destinos muy deseados.

Este fenómeno ha propiciado en las últimas décadas el surgimiento del turismo inducido por el cine o turismo cinematográfico, que a día de hoy ha dejado de ser una variante del turismo cultural para convertirse en una nueva modalidad turística cada vez más en auge. Partiendo de estas premisas, planteamos la publicación de un número en el que, desde distintas perspectivas epistemológicas, se analice la forma en que interaccionan el cine español, el turismo y el espacio geográfico. 

*CFP* “MAKING HOME AWAY: DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION AND RESETTLEMENT”, 2020 SYMPOSIUM

Making Home Away: Displacement, Migration and Resettlement Symposium

12 de Junio de 2020

University of Reading, UK

At this specific moment in Europe’s history, questions of identity, fraction, borders, belonging and migration are particularly pressing. Various fields of academic study and practical work are being conducted to address these questions, but they often don’t speak to one another. With the inherently interdisciplinary relevance of migration in mind, this conference focusses on speaking across disciplines, and beyond them. It welcomes academics, policy makers, NGO representatives, community members, community sponsorship groups, and refugees themselves to share their experiences and work in the field of migration during this one-day symposium aimed at cultivating cross-pollination of informed voices across these various fields.