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2014 | PRACTICE(S)

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“Practice” is a conceptual event that questions the correlating social, 
political and philosophical definitions and subjective experiences of 
professionalism across a wide range of disciplinary, cultural, and 
geographical contexts. For its fifth issue, Seachange is seeking 
abstracts for short position pieces that discuss practice(s) within a 
host of fields, from the hard sciences to the fine arts, and that 
address this fundamental question: how and how often do we do what we do?


Contributions can come from a variety of disciplines including, but not 
limited to, anthropology, art history, communication studies, law, 
medicine, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology and 
psychoanalysis, and the study of languages and literatures. They might 
address issues as diverse as the tension between paid and unpaid labour, 
volunteering, the ethics of “the good practice,” iteration as a creative 
and social phenomenon, perfectionism, the trend towards extreme 
specialization, and broader socio-political projects that derive from 
and work through action-oriented approaches to change and intervention.


In addition, within the 2014 issue, we will also feature a special 
section on how practice relates to work, precarity, and the 
casualization of labour. Rather than primarily analyzing work within the 
rubrics of political economy or labour conflict, however, for this 
section we are seeking contributions that focus on the following 
questions: if precarity is undermining life-long employment and the 
former security found in the professions, how do underemployed or 
unemployed youths and adults define their vocation today? If there is a 
growing disjuncture between paid work and chosen vocation, how are 
non-remunerated activities defended, legitimated, and defined? In terms 
of legitimacy, what constitutes the validity of professionalism?


Abstracts of 300 words describing contributions in English or French, 
which will range from 1,500-3,000 words, should be sent to 
(caroline.bem /at/ mail.mcgill.ca) by March 31, 2014. Contributors will be 
notified by April 21, 2014, and final contributions will be due by June 
30, 2014. Citation guidelines can be found at seachangejournal.ca.

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