[ecrea] CFP - Urban Island Studies | Special issue on Peripheral Discourses of Modernity

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  ​Call for papers: Special issue of /Urban Island Studies/

  //onPeripheral Discourses of Modernity

  2016

  Deadline for articles submission: *31 January 2016*

  *Guest Editors:*

  - Duarte Santo <https://www.facebook.com/duartesanto> (UMa-CIERL;
  Univ. Westminster);

  - Ana Salgueiro
  <https://www.facebook.com/ana.salgueirorodrigues> (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, but submissions are particularly
  welcome from presenters at the first Insula International Colloquim.
  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)>). To learn more about
  /Urban Island//Studies/, contact the journal’s Lead Editor, Adam
  Grydehøj ((agrydehoj /at/ islanddynamics.org)
  <mailto:(agrydehoj /at/ islanddynamics.org)>). Manuscripts should be between
  4000 and 8000 words in length and must follow the authorguidelines for
  /Urban Island Studies/. All papers must be in English and are subject
  to peer review.

  ***Websites:*

  /Urban Island Studies/: http://www.urbanislandstudies.org
  <http://www.urbanislandstudies.org/>

  1st Insula International Colloquim: http://www4.uma.pt/cierl/?page_id=64

  CIERL-UMa website – call for articles/publications:
  http://www4.uma.pt/cierl/?page_id=1180

  Duarte Santo

  Ana Salgueiro

  Adam Grydehøj

  June 2015


Ana Salgueiro
Researcher, CECC-UCP, CIERL-UMa
Culture Studies PhD Candidate - Catholic University of Portugal




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