[ecrea] Critical Arts CFP: Researching the Indigenous

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Call for Papers

Special Issue:
Researching the Indigenous

Guest Editor: Michael Wessels

(To be published in December 2016 as Critical Arts 30:6)



In mid-2014 a double issue of Critical Arts appeared with articles by 
authors from across the disciplines who were responding to an invitation 
to write about San and Khoe representation, a deliberately ambiguous 
title that included not only artistic, academic and popular work on the 
San and San cultural production, such as folklore and art, but also 
questions of political and economic inclusion and exclusion. The 
resulting publication produced ground-breaking writing that challenged 
previous research within specific disciplines and also in the general 
area of what could be called, not without much qualification, Khoesan 
studies. The issue included a forum for debate and also, significantly, 
some responses by indigenous commentators.  Many of the debates 
concerned ideas of authenticity, hybridity, indigeneity and of research 
methodology and ethics that have a purchase that goes far beyond 
southern Africa in a political and scholarly environment in which the 
lines between the researched and the researcher are increasingly 
challenged and blurred as people seek to become agents of their own 
histories and of the production of knowledge about themselves and the 
world. For this reason, we should like to extend this CFP to the wider 
sphere of indigenous studies, looking to continue the critique of 
anthropology, archaeology, folkloristics and linguistics and also 
explore new ways of reading cultural productions like literature, music 
and art. We would also like to stimulate discussion about the notion of 
indigeneity itself which has a more contested signification in Africa 
and India, for example, than it does in Canada or Australia and New Zealand.



Please submit abstracts to Michael Wessels by 15 May 2015.



Completed manuscripts to be submitted by 15 September 2015



Special Issue: San Representation Part 1, guest edited by Michael Wessels:

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/28/3#.VBl_gJSSxCY

San Representation Part 2, guest edited by Michael Wessels:

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/28/4#.VBl_u5SSxCY

1995 Special Issue ‘Recuperating the San’ edited by Keyan Tomaselli.

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/9/2#.VBl__ZSSxCY



Guest editor Michael Wessels can be contacted at (Wesselsm /at/ ukzn.ac.za)

Alternatively, contact the Critical Arts editorial office at 
(criticalarts /at/ ukzn.ac.za) or the editor-in-chief, Keyan Tomaselli at 
(tomasell /at/ ukzn.ac.za)



Critical Arts Issues published before 2005 can be open accessed at the 
following link:

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/            The 
Critical Arts Homepage can be accessed at:

http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/publications/critical-arts.aspx





Issued by

Keyan G. Tomaselli
Editor-in-Chief:  Critical Arts

Professor Emeritus

Distinguished Visiting Profressor, University of Johannesburg



Correspondinf addresses:

The Centre for Communication, Media and Society

School of Applied Human Sciences

Room G006a

Memorial Tower Building
Howard College Campus
Mazisi Kunene Rd

University of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban 4041, South Africa

http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za
e-mail:  (tomasell /at/ ukzn.ac.za)

Tel: 031 260 2635



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