[ecrea] CFP: Spatial Bricolage

*Call for contributors: **/Humanities /**(ISSN 2076-0787) special issue: 
“Spatial Bricolage: Methodological Eclecticism and the Poetics of 
'Making Do'"***

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/spatial_bricolage*
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Guest editor: Les Roberts, University of Liverpool

Dear Colleagues,

This is a proposal for a special issue of the journal /Humanities/, on 
the theme of ‘Spatial Bricolage’: the art and poetics of ‘making do’ (de 
Certeau 1984: xv) in spatial humanities research. Expanding on themes 
explored in an earlier Humanities special issue on ‘Deep Mapping 
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/DeepMapping>’ 
(Roberts 2015/16), this follow-up collection places firmer emphasis on 
questions of method: the ‘how’ rather than the ‘what’ that variously 
informs the doing of deep mapping and spatial anthropology. 
Provisionally organized around the twin concepts of cultural bricolage 
and the researcher/practitioner as bricoleur, this special issue aims to 
collate and provoke critical discussion trained on /spatial bricolage/ 
as an interdisciplinary (or ‘undisciplined’) nexus of practices and 
pick-and-mix methods. Claude Lévi-Strauss described bricolage as ‘[the 
making] do with “whatever is at hand”… [; to address oneself] to a 
collection of oddments left over from human endeavours’ (2004: 17, 19). 
If eclecticism informs a deep mapping practice increasingly oriented 
around the embodied and embedded researcher, then it is one that 
correspondingly finds its creative expression in the art and poetics of 
‘making do’. As a ‘maker of quilts’, or, as in filmmaking, ‘a person who 
assembles images into montages’ (Denzin and Lincoln 2011: 4), the 
researcher-as-bricoleur makes do insofar as what it is she or he is 
‘mapping’ is recast as a representational and affective assemblage. In 
the same way that calls for a ‘more artful and crafty’ sociology are 
underwritten by a push towards more ‘open methods’ in the social 
sciences (Back and Puwar 2012: 9), approaches in the interdisciplinary 
field of spatial and geo-humanities strive to embrace a methodological 
eclecticism adaptable to the qualitative dynamics of experiential, 
performative or ‘non-representational’ (Vannini 2015) geographies of 
place. Engaging with deep mapping ‘in all its messy, inclusive glory’ 
(Scherf 2015: 343), contributions for this Spatial Bricolage special 
issue are therefore sought from a wide range of fields that address 
questions that speak to issues of methodological eclecticism in 
spatial/geo-humanities research. Papers are especially welcome that 
examine the role of autoethnographic methods and practices, performance 
and gonzo ethnography, digital methods, or which address some of the 
ethical questions and constraints thrown up in relation to urban 
cultural bricolage as a mode of critical spatial research within the 
academy.

The submission deadline is *1 July 2017.*

**As with the previous Deep Mapping 
<http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/201> collection, the special 
issue will also be published in separate e-book format.


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