Wednesday 29 August 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL NOW CLOSED

COOLABAH Vol 11 now online ... CLICK HERE 
 Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production
You are invited to contribute papers - empirical studies, discursive essays, commentary, case studies or creative works - for publication in a special issue of the journal Coolabah, the  journal of the Observatori: Centre d' Estudis Australians, the Australian Studies Centre, at the Universitat de Barcelona.
    
This electronic journal provides an international forum for original research in the field of Australian Studies, drawing on interdisciplinary content. It especially welcomes papers that examine the world from cultural perspectives. This special issue seeks papers that examine the relationships between place/landscape – both Australian places/landscapes themselves, and Australian perspectives of place/landscape - and cultural production.
    
We seek papers engaging sense of place and landscape - either Australian places/landscapes themselves, or Australian perspectives of place/landscape - through acts of cultural production.
    

  •  Topics could include reflections on the role of the visual, performing, written or electronic arts in visualising, exploring or creating sense of place or place meaning, attachment or marking.      
  • Papers exploring the influence of geography and place on the creative arts and cultural production, and the cultural expression of place, are welcomed.    
  • Papers may be text based, strongly visual, or combined.     
  • Creative works will be welcomed.     
  • Papers containing links to web-based resources will also be welcomed; this may allow digital imagery and video material, for example, to be interfaced with the texts.

The special issue is edited by Bill Boyd and Ray Norman. Bill is the Professor of Geography at Southern Cross University, and researches place, environment and landscape from a range of perspectives –  biophysical through to cultural.

Ray is a Tasmanian-based artist, blogger, researcher, community networker and cultural jammer, with a background in studio jewellery and metalsmithing. Ray has been involved in the initiation of speculative community placemaking-cum-placemarking projects through interventionist cultural production.
   




They can be contacted for further information at  william.boyd@scu.edu.au and raynorman@eftel.net.au Proposals for papers or manuscripts for submission should be sent to Bill at  william.boyd@scu.edu.au

Manuscripts should be in plain text format with a minimum of formatting. Graphics may be embedded in the manuscripts or submitted separately. Since Coolabah is an electronic journal, colour images are acceptable and encouraged. All papers should be in English. Structure (organisation and flow of ideas, headings, referencing, etc.) should be  appropriate to the discipline from which you are writing. The journal can take long papers (greater than 5,000 words), but papers may, especially given the potential role for visual content, be relatively short. All material will be peer reviewed by the special issue editors, and the journal retains the right for further peer review.
      
 


   Manuscripts should be submitted by November 16th 2012.
  The plan is to publish this collection in early 2013.  

  
       
  a research network dedicated to developing more inclusive 21st C 
understandings & imaginings of place

Prof. Bill Boyd: Review Editor
Ray Norman : Project Coordinator (Tasmania)





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