[ecrea] CFP: New Scholar 2.2 - Special Issue on Belonging

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*Call for Papers: Volume 2 Number 2 /The Belonging Project/The Belonging 
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As an integral part of human experience, 'belonging' is a ubiquitous 
concept in many areas of the humanities and social sciences and beyond. 
This is increasingly the case in the contemporary contexts of 
globalization, trans-nationalism, and the emergence of the network 
society, which have imbued issues of belonging with a renewed emphasis 
and increased urgency. Yet, as important as the concept of belonging is 
to discourses on migration, citizenship, community and wellbeing, among 
others, it is rarely defined or interrogated at length. While such 
ambiguity and elasticity is no doubt part of belonging's efficacy as a 
concept, it nonetheless veils the complexities of processes and 
experiences of belonging/not belonging.

Following a successful interdisciplinary workshop and symposium on 
belonging, the organizers of the Belonging Project, an initiative by 
interdisciplinary researchers from Melbourne, are now calling for 
submissions for a special issue of /New Scholar. /This special issue 
will showcase innovative research across disciplines that critically 
engages with the concept of belonging and the ways in which it is 
deployed and understood in academic discourses, with a view to examining 
the challenges and ambiguities embedded in the concept.

Submissions might address (but need not be limited to) the following 
themes:

   * Structures and processes of belonging
   * Moving past the belonging/not-belonging dichotomy
   * Belonging beyond identity
   * Technology, communication and belonging
   * Scales of belonging, e.g., local, national, transnational
   * Belonging and intersectionality
   * Memory and belonging
   * Place and belonging
   * Mobility and belonging
   * Agency and belonging
   * Indigenous belonging
   * Migrancy, transnationalism, and belonging
   * Hybridity and belonging
   * Language, culture and belonging

Submissions should be uploaded to www.newscholar.org.au 
<http://www.newscholar.org.au/> by August 14, 2012

Please see the /New Scholar /website for updated guidelines for authors. 
Please address all inquiries (but not submissions) to Caitlin Nunn, 
Nadia Niaz, Karen Schamberger and Gillian Darcy at 
(thebelongingproject /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(thebelongingproject /at/ gmail.com)>