[Commlist] CFP: Questions of Taste? intervalla volume 7

CFP: Questions of Taste? intervalla volume 7

*Call for papers*
QUESTIONS OF TASTE?
intervalla: platform for intellectual exchange
Edited by Sara Steinert-Borella (Professor, Comparative Literary and 
Cultural Studies, Franklin University Switzerland) & Satomi Sugiyama 
(Professor, Communication and Media Studies, Franklin University 
Switzerland)

This volume of intervalla will examine questions of taste from an 
interdisciplinary perspective, thus welcoming contributions that 
consider how taste reflects and shapes who we are, what we eat, what we 
wear, and what we become. The sense of taste, whether it refers to the 
metaphorical sense of taste (aesthetic discrimination) or the literal 
sense of taste (gustatory taste), as Korsmeyer (1999) outlined, is a 
fundamental part of human experiences. Yet, taste as a concept remains 
somewhat ambiguous, and much has been written about taste straddling the 
personal and the collective. Bourdieu’s analysis of taste reminds us 
that formation of taste is a social and cultural process, and how our 
bodily experiences are essential for developing taste. We propose that 
the notion of taste be examined at and across multiple levels of scope, 
from the individual to the societal, and to all the interactions that 
follow.

Under the current media environment, the process of shaping and 
reshaping our taste is increasingly influenced by our experiences that 
are not necessarily local and physical. With the overwhelming amount of 
information about diverse tastes, hierarchies of taste become an 
important question. We know we all have certain tastes, and that some 
are more valued than others. As Parkhurst Ferguson explains: “many of us 
in fact spend a good deal of time accounting for taste…Hierarchies 
govern taste. Every social setting prizes certain tastes and disdains 
others, and food is no exception” (19).  Fashion as “collective 
selection of taste” as defined by Blumer, is also heavily intertwined 
with such hierarchies of taste. We are especially interested in 
discourses constructed around taste, from food to fashion, and how taste 
is practiced across disciplines and across cultures. Articles might 
consider questions like: how are hierarchies of taste determined and 
expressed? How are discourses of taste articulated and recorded? How do 
these discourses change across time and across cultures? What factors 
influence and determine taste both theoretically and in practice? In 
answering these questions, this volume of intervalla invites authors who 
rethink the parameters of taste in a specific cultural or critical 
context to share their contribution, and we welcome contributions from 
communication and media studies scholars to address the theme.

The journal, intervalla, volume 7, seeks contributions that explore 
these inflections of and reflections on taste in the twenty-first 
century. Please send an abstract (250 – 300 words) to 
(ssteinertborella /at/ fus.edu)<mailto:(ssteinertborella /at/ fus.edu)> and 
(ssugiyama /at/ fus.edu)<mailto:(ssugiyama /at/ fus.edu)> before August 31, 2019. A 
completed paper (3500 – 4500 words) is due on December 1, 2019 for peer 
review.

References:
Blumer, Herbert. “Fashion: From class differentiation to collective 
selection.” The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, 1969, pp. 275-291.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of 
Taste (Trans R Nice). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Korsmeyer, Carolyn. Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy. Ithaca, 
NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Parkhurst Ferguson, Priscilla. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of 
French Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

*intervalla: platform for intellectual exchange is a transdisciplinary, 
open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal published by Franklin 
University Switzerland. intervalla is indexed on Directory of Open 
Access Journals (DOAJ). There is no article processing charges, and 
authors retain copyright and publishing rights with no restrictions. 
https://www.fus.edu/intervalla/next-volume


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