<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">From: </span><a href="mailto:sfra-l-bounces@wiz.cath.vt.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">sfra-l-bounces@wiz.cath.vt.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> [</span><a href="mailto:sfra-l-bounces@wiz.cath.vt.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">sfra-l-bounces@wiz.cath.vt.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">] on behalf of John Rieder [</span><a href="mailto:rieder@hawaii.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">rieder@hawaii.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">]</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 11:36 AM</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">To: sfra-l List</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subject: call for papers, special issue of Extrapolation on Indigenous Futurism</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Papers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Extrapolation special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, (Anishinaabe), Michael Levy, and John Rieder.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In the last decade and a half, a number of scholars have explored the way that SF throughout the last century and a half has borne a close relationship to colonial, and later postcolonial history, discourses, and ideologies. One of the most prominent features of colonial ideology in SF has been the widespread assumption that the future will be determined by the technological and cultural dominance of the West, the “progress” of which often entails the assumption that non-Western cultures will either disappear or assimilate themselves to Western norms. Indigenous Futurism designates a growing movement of writing, both fictional and critical, that envisions the future from the point of view of Indigenous histories, traditions, and knowledges—and in so doing situates the present and the past in ways that challenge (neo/post)colonial ideologies of progress. This special issue of Extrapolation aims to bring together critical and scholarly explorations of and responses to fictional or theoretical and critical work in or on Indigenous SF, where SF is broadly conceived of as including science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, and slipstream.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Topics might include but are not limited to:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * fictional and theoretical confrontations of Western science and Indigenous knowledges</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * use of Indigenous traditions in fiction or theory to envision a sustainable future</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * responses to and evaluation of Indigenously-inflected SF in any medium from any geographic location</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * representation and use of Indigenous traditions in classic SF texts</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * Indigeneity and SF adventure fiction, Indigeneity and space opera, Indigeneity and the New Weird</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * challenges of publishing and distributing Indigenous Futurism</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We invite submissions of 5,000-12,000 words to John Rieder (</span><a href="mailto:rieder@hawaii.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">rieder@hawaii.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:rieder@hawaii.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">rieder@hawaii.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>) by </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">April 1, 2015</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. Submissions should conform to the usual requirements of Extrapolation.</span><br>
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