[ecrea] M/C Journal 'Place' CFP

We are excited to announce the upcoming 'Place' issue of M/C Journal is
now calling for submissions.


  * Article deadline: 22 Apr. 2016
  * Release date: 22 June 2016
  * Editors: Christina Ballico and Allan Watson

Please submit articles through the M/C Journal site. Send any enquiries
to (place /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au)
<mailto:(place /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au)>.

/Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and
a brief biography to the issue editors at
(place /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au)
<mailto:(place /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au)> (.) Abstracts should include
the article title and should describe your research question, approach,
and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75
words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research
interests. Approved contributions will then be invited with an April
2016 deadline in order to undergo the full peer-review process./
/
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*Call for papers*

The ways in which artists, musicians, filmmakers and other creative
practitioners perceive, navigate and represent 'place' in their work is
complex and multifaceted. Further, place-based conditions also influence
the ways in which creative activity occurs in particular locales,
raising questions regarding the role of history, economics, attitudes
towards and perceptions of particular forms of arts and culture, shared
social and creative contexts, and the geographical location of places,
in shaping and fostering creativity. While the relationship between
place and creative practice is now widely recognised across the social
sciences, it remains poorly conceptualised at the level of specific
forms of artistic and creative practices and creative industries. The
aim of this issue is to therefore bring together scholarship from across
a range of disciplines that is concerned with the relationship between
place, broadly defined, and creativity, also broadly defined.

We invite submissions centred on, but not limited to, the following
areas of enquiry:

  * How factors related to place effect the performance of a wide range
    of creative practices, including the materiality, history, and
    cultural and societal aspects of particular locales.
  * How place is represented and reflected in music, literature, film,
    and across a wide range of other creative products and outputs,
    across a range of spatial scales.
  * How artists simultaneously navigate both 'real' and virtual 'places'
    in their work.
  * How creative practice is both situated in, and networked across,
    particular locales.
  * How mapping creative activity can help better understand situated,
    place-specific creative practices, clusters and networks.
  * The formation of creative communities of artists, musicians, film
    makers, and other creatives with and beyond particular places.
  * Biographies of individuals and historical accounts of creative
    scenes that emphasise the role of place in fostering and shaping
    creativity.

We welcome both empirically-grounded as well theoretically-led
contributions, but all articles should seek to draw clear links between
place-based social, economic and material conditions and creative
practice, creative industries and communities, and creative products.

Please note we require the above mentioned abstract and biography in the
initial instance, with approved contributions then invited with an April
2016 deadline. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All
articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition).

Kind Regards

Christina and Allan

Dr Christina Ballico, PhD GradCertAdultTertiaryEd BCommsHons
Independent Research Consultant, Academic and Educator
Perth, Western Australia
https://edithcowan.academia.edu/ChristinaBallico
http://linkedin.com/in/christinaballico


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