27.1340, FYI: Call for Papers: Identity in the Context of Plurality

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:14:17
From: KANTE Issa [issa.kante at univ-reunion.fr]
Subject: Call for Papers: Identity in the Context of Plurality

Call for papers

“Identity in the context of plurality”

Category: Essay collection 
Organisation: Université de La Réunion, France
Research centre: DIRE (Déplacements, Identités, Regards, Ecritures /
Displacement, Identity, Revision, Expression)

Deadline: April 15, 2016

Keywords: identity construction, migration, cultural contacts and “metissage”,
transculturality, globalisation, creolisation

With a multidisciplinary approach, this collective book project seeks to
address the question of identity construction in the context of plurality,
whether socio-cultural, political, religious, educational, linguistic or
artistic.

For centuries, cultural contacts generated by intentional or forced
transoceanic migrations have favoured “metissage” and have consequently given
birth to new identity constructions that reflect cultural plurality. Moreover,
new mobilities in the 21st century create, not only more diversity, but also
new hybridities, and entail the process of “creolisation” (Glissant) through
cross-cultural borrowing and mutual enrichments. In fact, extensive networking
impacts the current globalisation process. It favours interconnections and
affects one’s sense of identity. In today’s global world, the individual loses
and/or multiplies his/her identity markers on different scales (local,
regional, national, transnational). 

The multiplicity of “ethnoscapes”, to borrow Arjun Appadurai’s term, or the
plurality of “landscapes of persons who constitute the shifting world in which
we live” (Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, 1996), has
generated a variety of perceptions and imaginary representations of our world,
as well as a new self-awareness. For some, the challenges of the 21st century
seem to be the preservation and renewal of their vernacular cultural heritage
in a globalised world that tends to minimise specificities. In the meantime,
the movement of people, ideas, and cultures improves access to diversity;
circulation generates exchanges, negotiations and renewal. 

Current events related to the influx of economic migrants and political
refugees into Europe revive debates on the social and cultural integration of
the Other, on the acceptance of difference (in terms of culture, ethnicity or
religion), and generate radical, conservative redefinitions of identity. 

Therefore, it is important to study the dynamics of identity formation in the
context of plurality, and to question expressions of resistance against
globalisation and the opening of borders, and to examine identitarian
anxieties and cultural protectionism, or conversely, forms of adaptation to
the current tendency toward cultural homogenisation.  

Proposals will include an article (45, 000 characters) and a
bio-bibliographical note (300 characters) in French, English or Spanish, with
an abstract not exceeding 450 characters, and 5 keywords in English and their
French or Spanish translation. 

Submission guidelines can be found at following address:
http://ufr-lsh.univ-reunion.fr/fileadmin/Fichiers/FLSH/BTCR/Publications/guide
_auteur_BTCR.pdf

Calendar:
-April 15, 2016: Deadline for submission. 
Manuscripts should be submitted to the following address by March 15, 2016:
yvon.rolland at univ-reunion.fr

-June 15, 2016: Editorial decision.
All articles will be subject to two peer reviews. Contributors will be
notified June 15, 2016 if their papers are accepted.

-September 15, 2016: Deadline for final papers (if revisions required).

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

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