34.3767, FYI: Call for Special Issue contributions: Borderscapes - The linguistic de/construction of borders as an everyday practice

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Date: 15-Dec-2023
From: Jessica Hampton [jhampton at liverpool.ac.uk]
Subject: Call for Special Issue contributions: Borderscapes - The linguistic de/construction of borders as an everyday practice


Call for contributions

Borderscapes - The linguistic de/construction of borders as an
everyday practice

This Special Issue is part of a wider project that aims to generate
new understandings of borders as everyday practices that we engage
with, as internalised conceptualisations of spaces of belonging (and
of exclusion), and as mechanisms that crystallise othering processes.
The different parts of the project draw on the border as both a
theoretical approach and a methodology.
We invite multidisciplinary contributions drawing from scholarship
engaging with bordering practices that naturalise borders as an
inherent quality of all that surrounds us. This phenomenon also
affects our perception of time, and timelines assume a spatio-visual
dimension in that they are drawn on the basis of bounded events and
happenings. Spatial (territorial) and temporal (historical) legacies
framed within a border perspective consolidate discourses of
separation and dissimilarity. At a time when public debate is
dominated by institutional discourses of exclusion affecting
understandings of citizenship, national belonging and mobility, and
when present conflicts are often a legacy of border-making practices
rooted in ideologically weak persuasions, it is fundamental to adopt a
critical perspective towards, and denaturalise, borders. The project
aims to expose the profoundly social and cultural nature of bordering
practices, and uncover processes consolidating views about the fixity
of borders, disregarding the lived experience of the border and the
inherent hybridity of cultural and social border contexts. Bordering
ideologies are closely interconnected with views of identity as a
given and permanent component of the self. Views of identity as fluid
and multiple, however, pose that it is contingent on the specific
actions through which it is performed, therefore facilitating change.
Borders can thus be deployed as resources facilitating interactions;
they can prompt social change and counter perceptions, and
self-perceptions, of peripherality and marginalisation.

Perspectives will include, but are not limited to:

-       linguistic constructions of the border
-       constructions of the border via non-verbal artefacts
-       bordering practices and the body
-       minoritized groups and bordering practices
-       virtual borders
-       the border as ideology
-       the border as methodology
-       border thinking (Mignolo, 2011)


Articles should be 6,000-7,000 words (including references).
Prospective contributors are invited to send the following information
to stefania.tufi at liverpool.ac.uk and jhampton at liverpool.ac.uk by 16
February 2024: (a) Authors’ full names, (b) a professional bio of up
to 100 words, (c) professional affiliation, (d) the title of your
manuscript, and (e) an abstract of your manuscript (300 words max.).

Please use ‘Borderscapes – proposal for Special Issue’ as the title of
your email.

The timeline is as follows:
1) Deadline for submission of abstracts: 16 February 2024
2) Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstracts: 28 February 2024
3) Deadline for full articles: 30 September 2024
4) Ongoing blinded, peer-reviews: from 1 October 2024 to 16 December
2024
5) Final version of articles: due 1 February 2025
6) Tentative publication of SI: September 2025
All papers will be double-blind peer reviewed. Submitted papers should
be original and not under consideration or published elsewhere.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics




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