Call for Reviewers and Practice Research Responses: Place and Space: The Kelvingrove Review Issue 19

Call for Reviewers and Practice Research Responses:

Place and Space: The Kelvingrove Review Issue 19 

The Kelvingrove Review is currently seeking reviewers for its 19th issue, ‘Place and Space’, which will be launched in September 2022. The Kelvingrove Review is an online academic journal focusing on critical analysis of contemporary scholarly work in the arts and humanities, through the publication of academic reviews and practice-based responses. The recent turn toward the spatial in a number of disciplines in the arts and humanities has opened up ideas around place and space to researchers working across a wide variety of fields. Issue 19 of The Kelvingrove Review will respond to this shared interest by providing a textual space in which concepts, theorisations, and interactions with ‘Place and Space’ take centre stage.

‘When we say ''I'm here," we presuppose that there's an exterior place that the "I," an unassignable interiority, would come to occupy [… but] how can "I," which has no place, come into a place?’

Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘On the Soul’, Corpus, p.132 

Jean-Luc Nancy, the French poststructuralist theorist, uses the concept of place to posit a shift in theorisations of selfhood from the ontological to the topological. In Nancy’s text, place becomes a crucial question which presses on ideas of being and alters our conception of not only the self in isolation but the self in interaction with the world. 

The twinned concepts of place and space are both rich in scope and theoretically complex conveying simultaneously: home and belonging; environment, and climate emergency; ownership, subversion, and the politics of place; body as place; text as place; taking place as both a sequence of events, and a series of events coming into being. Additionally, the implications of Covid, including lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, prohibitions around travel, and social distancing practices have changed the way we encounter and interact with place, and the way we enter and occupy communal space. 

Gathering together a range of texts in different formats, from a wide variety of disciplines, Issue 19 of The Kelvingrove Review will address how we understand place, and how it influences our critical practice as researchers in the arts and humanities in the contemporary academic landscape. The texts proposed for review or response are: 

Academic monographs and collections 

  • William A. Calvo-Quiros, Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).
  • Hamid Dabbashi, Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
  • Nicolas Daly, Ruritania: A Cultural History from the Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • Belinda Edmundson, Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
  • Jas Elner, ed. Landscape and Space: Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
  • Caitlyn Flynn The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).
  • Barbara Fuchs, Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (London: Methuen Drama, 2022).
  • Yves Gambier and Ubaldo Stecconi, eds., A World Atlas of Translation (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019).
  • Alexander Hall, Evolution on British Television and Radio: Transmissions and Transmutations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
  • Joseph H. Jackson Writing Black Scotland (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2020).
  • Laura Kalas, Laura Varnam, eds. Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).
  • Isabel Käser, The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
  • Nigel Leask, Stepping Westward: Writing the West Highland Tour, c.1720-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • Megan Leitch Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature: Emotions, ethics, dreams (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).
  • Anna MacGuire, Contact Zones of the First World War: Cultural Encounters across the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
  • David Silkenat Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South (Oxford: Oxford University Press, May 2022).
  • Jasmina Tumbas "I am Jugoslovenka!": Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022). 

Creative non-fiction, poetry and film 

  • Jimmy Goldblum, A Broken House, short film, (Old Friend, 2020).
  • Abi Palmer Sanatorium, (London: Penned in the Margins, 2020).
  • Joelle Taylor C+nto and Othered Poems, (The Westbourne Press, 2021). 

Exhibitions 

The Kelvingrove Review would like to invite reviews or responses from researchers and practice researchers across the University. If you are interested in reviewing or responding to one of these works, please send an email to kelvingrovereview@glasgow.ac.uk with the following information:

  • Your name and contact details (student email) –
  • Your programme of study
  • A short biography in which you describe your research interests, and/or your practice
  • The title of the text you would like to review or respond to, and how it relates to your own work

Works will be assigned to reviewers on the basis of best fit with research interests and/or practice. 

We are also interested in hearing from researchers who would like to review or respond to an exhibition, performance, sound work, or other text published or first shown in the period 2020-22 which does not appear on the above list. Please apply as above, including a brief note which describes the relevancy of your proposed text to the Issue’s theme. Closing date for registration of interest is 18th March 2022, and reviewers will be contacted with further details within a few days of the closing date. 

We look forward to hearing from you! 

All the best,

The Kelvingrove Review committee

eSharp, Issue 30 (Summer 2022) – Call for Papers *(EXTENDED)* ‘Care’

eSharp, Issue 30 (Summer 2022) – Call for Papers *(EXTENDED)*

‘Care’

Postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit an article for possible inclusion in the next issue of the eSharp journal on the theme of ‘Care’.

New Deadlines

Abstracts: 21st March 2022
Full paper: 30th April 2022

eSharp is an international online journal for postgraduate research in the Arts, Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, and Education. Based at the University of Glasgow and run entirely by postgraduate students, it aims to provide a critical but supportive entry into the realm of academic publishing for emerging academics. Papers will be submitted to double-blind peer review.

Care

The effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have served to highlight a culture of carelessness from many of our world leaders. Privatisation of healthcare services, widespread frontline staff neglect, and an ongoing disregard for marginalised communities and the so-called ‘surface population’, are but a few examples of the institutional apathy plaguing our society today. Who cares?

As the Editors of this issue, we call for papers from postgraduate academics across disciplines to answer critically to the theme of ‘care’. Academia is an institution that is prey to (and frequently perpetuates) the cultures of individualism and competition. As emerging and early career academics, we reflect upon an alternative future: of pedagogies of care and cultures of collaboration over the pontification of defensive or possessive scholarship. What does care look like as a praxis for study?

We welcome proposals that explore the theme of care from any of the previously mentioned disciplines, and particularly those from underrepresented academic voices or fields.

Possible topics of exploration might include:

• Collaboration as praxis in contemporary philosophical studies
• COP-26 and narratives of care in environmental studies
• Physical caretaking and stewardship of books or archives in historical communities
• The ethics of care in grassroot community activism
• Care in relation to leadership and management studies
• Feminist perspectives on the gendering of care and ‘caring’ workforces
• Sociological explorations on access to care for individuals and communities
• Historiographical or anthropological studies of care across cultures
• Forms of care and carelessness during moments of crisis
• Studies of corporate ‘carewashing’ and the marketisation of ‘self-care’ under neoliberalism

We particularly encourage creative interpretations of the theme, and encourage applications from scholars engaging in theoretical play with theme of care.

Requirements

We welcome contributions by postgraduate students working in any area of the Arts, Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, or Education. We also accept submissions from postdoctoral researchers within one year of completing their PhD.

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words summarising your argument, and a list of 3-5 keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. Abstracts must be submitted to esharp@gla.ac.uk by 21st March 2022.

When contacting us, state your year of study, programme, and briefly describe your research interests. Successful candidates will be notified before April 4th and may be asked to make relevant editorial changes in order to qualify for publication within a specific time frame.

All articles should adhere to the word limit (4,000 – 6,000 words) and be submitted with a bibliography listing all works cited (not works consulted) by April 30th. These should either be in doc./docx. or RTF format.

For all enquiries and comments please contact: esharp@gla.ac.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you.

The Editors

Some helpful links:
How to submit an article to eSharp.
Our style guide.

eSharp, Issue 30 (Summer 2022) – Call for Reviewers ‘Care’

eSharp, Issue 30 (Summer 2022) – Call for Reviewers

‘Care’

The editorial team of eSharp is looking for postdoctoral researchers interested in acting as
peer reviewer for Issue 30 (Summer 2022) of the journal on the theme of ‘Care’.

Please email us at esharp@gla.ac.uk with details regarding your discipline and specialism.
Papers (4,000 – 6,000 words) are expected to be available for peer reviewing in early May.

About eSharp

eSharp is an international online journal for postgraduate research in the Arts, Humanities,
Social and Political Sciences, and Education. Based at the University of Glasgow and run
entirely by postgraduate students, it aims to provide a critical but supportive entry into the
realm of academic publishing for emerging academics. Papers will be submitted to doubleblind peer review.

Issue 30 (Summer 2022) - ‘Care’

The effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have served to highlight a culture of
carelessness from many of our world leaders. Privatisation of healthcare services, widespread frontline staff neglect, and an ongoing disregard for marginalised communities and the socalled ‘surface population’, are but a few examples of the institutional apathy plaguing our society today. Who cares?

As the Editors of this issue, we call for papers from postgraduate academics across
disciplines to answer critically to the theme of ‘care’. Academia is an institution that is prey
to (and frequently perpetuates) the cultures of individualism and competition. As emerging
and early career academics, we reflect upon an alternative future: of pedagogies of care and cultures of collaboration over the pontification of defensive or possessive scholarship. What does care look like as a praxis for study?

We welcome proposals that explore the theme of care from any of the previously mentioned disciplines, and particularly those from underrepresented academic voices or fields.

Possible topics of exploration might include:

  • Collaboration as praxis in contemporary philosophical studies
  • COP-26 and narratives of care in environmental studies
  • Physical caretaking and stewardship of books or archives in historical communities
  • The ethics of care in grassroot community activism
  • Care in relation to leadership and management studies
  • Feminist perspectives on the gendering of care and ‘caring’ workforces
  • Sociological explorations on access to care for individuals and communities
  • Historiographical or anthropological studies of care across cultures
  • Forms of care and carelessness during moments of crisis
  • Studies of corporate ‘carewashing’ and the marketisation of ‘self-care’ under neoliberalism

We particularly encourage creative interpretations of the theme, and encourage applications from scholars engaging in theoretical play with theme of care.

For all enquiries and comments please contact: esharp@gla.ac.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you.

The Editors

Some helpful links:
How to submit an article to eSharp.
Our style guide.