[ecrea] CFP: Peripheral Discourses of Modernity - Special Issue Urban Island Studies Journal

Call for papers

/Urban Island Studies Journal/

*Peripheral Discourses of Modernity *

Special issue 2016

http://www.urbanislandstudies.org

Deadline for articles submission: *31 January 2016*

*Guest Editors*:

     – Duarte Santo (UMa-CIERL;University of Westminster);

     – Ana Salgueiro (UMa-CIERL; UCP-CECC).

Islands are paradoxical. Although perceived as peripheral relative to
mainlands and continents, islands are also centres of affective,
cultural, and identity reference for those who were born and/or live on
them. As spaces of transit and encounters, insular peripheries are
moreover sociocultural and political realities marked by transgression,
innovation, and (re)creativity.

It is important to give scholarly attention to the interrelated
peripheralities and centralities of island spaces, cultural phenomena,
and subjects. By expanding our focus beyond Western metropolitan
centres, we can contribute to a new cartography of modernity that
(re)views the cultural, epistemological, and (re)creative density of
insular peripheries, shedding light on the modernities and modernisms to
which they gave rise.


  High European modernism is often regarded as having been enacted by
emigration from the provinces to the great European capitals (Eagleton,
1970; Silvestre, 2008), but what has occurred in reverse, with migration
from centres to peripheries? How have modernisms been experienced in
geopolitical and cultural spaces regarded as peripheral? How have
(European and colonial) insular societies and subjects responded to such
incoming modernisms? What role have peripheral geocultural spaces been
assigned in constructing the narratives of diverse modernisms and
modernities?

*CIERL - Research Centre for Regional & Local Studies, University of
Madeira*, and *Island Dynamics* are pleased to propose a special issue
of /Urban Island Studies /on the theme of *‘Peripheral Discourses of
Modernity’*.

*/Urban Island Studies/*//is a peer-reviewed open access journal
situated at the intersection of island studies and urban studies. The
journal develops knowledge across disciplines, offering an urban
perspective within island research and an island perspective within
urban research.

This is an open call for papers, although submissions are particularly
welcome from presenters at the first Insula International Colloquim
(Madeira Island, 19-21 November, 2015). Papers are invited to consider
the relationships between peripherality and centrality, the rural and
the urban, isolation and exchange in island communities, as well as
between islands and mainlands, worldwide.

Papers must be submitted by *31 January 2016 *at the latest to guest
editors Duarte Santo and Ana Salgueiro
*(**(peripheral.modernity.uisj /at/ mail.uma.pt)
<mailto:(peripheral.modernity.uisj /at/ mail.uma.pt)>). *

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Manuscripts should be between 4000 and 8000 words in length and must
follow the authorguidelines for /Urban Island Studies/:
http://www.urbanislandstudies.org/authorguidelines.html



  All papers must be in English and are subject to peer review.



To learn more about /Urban Island//Studies Journal/, contact the
journal’s Lead Editor, Adam Grydehøj ((agrydehoj /at/ islanddynamics.org)
<mailto:(agrydehoj /at/ islanddynamics.org)>).


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