[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

Guest editor: Les Roberts, University of Liverpool

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. Provisionally organized around the twin concepts of 
cultural bricolage and the researcher/practitioner as bricoleur (Denzin 
and Lincoln 2011), this special issue aims to collate and provoke 
critical discussion trained on /spatial bricolage/ as an 
interdisciplinary (or ‘undisciplined’) nexus of practices. 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’. 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’ geographies of place. Engaging with deep mapping, 
spatial anthropology, or spatial humanities methods, contributions for 
this Spatial Bricolage special issue are therefore sought from a wide 
range of fields that engage with questions that speak to issues of 
eclecticism, bricolage and 'making do' in humanities research on space 
and place.

Papers are especially welcome that examine the role of: autoethnographic 
methods and practices, performance and gonzo ethnography, digital 
spatial methods, or approaches which explore issues of ethics in 
connection with site-specific spatial methods (or which consider 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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Please send abstracts and expressions of interest (and any questions 
about the special issue) to guest editor Les Roberts 
(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>

For details on the submission process, please see the instructions for 
authors at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/instructions

Contact the assistant editor Ms. Jie Gu at (humanities /at/ mdpi.com) 
<mailto:(humanities /at/ mdpi.com)> for questions regarding the submission 
process or Les Roberts (les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)> for questions regarding the 
appropriateness of the content or style of your manuscript.

Humanities is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access 
by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as 
indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors 
and their institutes. More information is available at 
http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

No Article Processing Charges (APC) apply for well-prepared manuscripts. 
For more information please visithttp://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/ 
<http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/>.



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