[ecrea] Continuum CFP > Situating research, situating practice: New voices in cultural research

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Dear colleagues,

Please find below a CFP for a special issue of Continuum: Journal of 
Media and Cultural Studies, which is open to postgraduate students and 
early career researchers working in and around media and cultural studies.

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Situating research, situating practice: New voices in cultural research
Special Issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

As Jussi Parikka states: "Practices are in themselves theoretical 
excavations into the world of 'things', objects of (cultural) research 
conducted in a manner that makes the two inseparable. Practices probe, 
investigate, track, interrupt, intervene and question [...] Practices 
are theories in the very dynamic mode that makes 'theories work'" 
(Parikka 2011, p.34).

This turn towards 'practice' has been enthusiastically taken up by 
cultural studies scholars, who have deployed this methodology in 
relation to a diverse range of fields including media, consumption and 
sustainability. This special section follows on from the CSAA Intermezzo 
Symposium 'Doing Cultural Studies: Interrogating Practice'.

This special section offers a timely reflection on the role of practice 
theory in cultural studies. Using practice as a critical lens also 
presents an opportunity for emerging scholars to consider their own 
research practice and methodological orientation. It will showcase 
postgraduate students and early career researchers critically engaging 
with their own position as scholars and articulating what it means to 
'practice' or 'do' cultural studies.

We are particularly interested in abstracts that engage with new methods 
of cultural research, new research sites, and new critical approaches. 
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words to 
(doingculturalstudies /at/ gmail.com) by 5 September 2014. If accepted, full 
papers will be due by 16 January 2015. The special section will be 
published in 2016.

Editors: Jenny Kennedy, James Meese and Emily van der Nagel