[ecrea] CFP: ‘Digital Spatiality’ – A special issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia'

CALL FOR PAPERS (EXTENDED DEADLINE): ‘Digital Spatiality’ – A special 
issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia

Abstract deadline: 29 April 2018

http://www.politicseastasia.com/research/digital-spatiality-special-issue-asiascape-digital-asia/

Contacts: Dr. Rahul K. Gairola, Murdoch University, Australia 
((Rahul.Gairola /at/ murdoch.edu.au)) and Dr. Martin Roth, University of 
Leipzig, Germany ((m.roth /at/ asobiba.de))

Themes: Digital technologies, namely the ‘internet’, have catalyzed a 
dramatic shift in the production of space and how we conceive it. They 
are ambiguous at their borders, at once expanding yet shrinking notions 
of home and homeland, of the local and the global, and of the intangible 
and the material. Such fuzziness and shifting boundaries generate new 
spatial relations on multiple layers which we call ‘digital spatialities’.

In choosing the term ‘spatiality’ versus ‘area’, we wish to mark a 
deviation from and complication of traditional area studies that are 
bound to particular geographies, nations, languages, and/ or cultures.  
In our reading, ‘digital spatialities’ are anchored in but equally 
transcend these categories. In this special issue, we aim to consider 
different examples of how these digital spatialities are structured, how 
they function, are put into practice, and how they are framed by and 
connected to, rather than bound by areas in the abovementioned sense. We 
invite contributions that explore specific digital spatialities related 
to Asia with these questions in mind from various disciplinary 
perspectives, and to consider the following questions:

•             what defines specific digital spatialities when we think 
of Asia?

•             how are these related to already existing areas and their 
constituents, such as language, law, communities, and cultural practices

•             which kinds of subjects inhabit them, and what do they do?

•             what kind of methodologies may we deploy in critically 
studying them?

•             how can we come to terms with the vast differences between 
them?

By asking these questions, we aim to ignite a critical dialogue about 
how digitality and digital humanities can be thought of productively, 
and complexly, even in the wake of vast and variable differences that 
are not simply confined to region. Firstly, we hope to fuel a more 
nuanced discourse about “the internet” or “digital humanities,” in 
particular regarding their generalized definition and their 
applicability in the largely differing local and global contexts of Asia 
on the world stage. Secondly, we would like to begin mapping the digital 
areas which we identify, carefully meditating upon their relationships 
among and between each other, as well as the electronic shape of the 
“world” they produce.


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