Issues 6.2 and 7.1
Issue
6.2: Infrastructure
The
infrastructures of the modern world—from roads and railways to global
communications, from codes of law to the code within computers—move things,
people, and ideas and help craft regions and urban spaces while conveying the
images that people use to shape selves and communities. In all these ways,
infrastructures have been central to the historical and contemporary
experiences of Asian communities. Across the humanities and social sciences,
however, infrastructure has only recently emerged as a topic of focus, and
questions remain about how to analyze infrastructures as material artifacts and
media of the imagination, to read for their appearances in literature or
interpret representations of them in film, and to understand their role in
contemporary aesthetic, political, or ecological practices.
This
special issue will gather new work from the humanities, arts, and social
sciences examining “infrastructure” as concept or material reality in Asia,
Asian America, and Asian diasporic communities around the world. We welcome
scholarship that explores the relationships between real and conceptual
infrastructures, concrete materials and codes of practice—both in particular
parts of Asia and as Asian people, goods, and ideas circulate globally. We are
especially interested in essays that use the concept of infrastructure to
better understand questions related to development projects, technological changes,
and emergent political and social realities.
Our goal is to discover how
infrastructure studies can renew classic approaches to Asian societies and
their national or global histories, provide new insights into Asian and Asian
diasporic literatures or arts, and help focus attention on current ecological
and political concerns—for example, by mobilizing new concepts such as
redundancy, resiliance, and repair. We seek close examinations of the evolution
of the infrastructures that are fundamental to economic and political
relations, and to the daily lives of billions of people, to reveal the ways in
which material technologies, sociotechnical processes, legal forms, popular
culture, and the natural environment interact to produce the physical and imagined
spaces of city, nation, region, and empire.
Submission Deadline: June 1,
2019.
This
open issue invites essays related to the broader project of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, which showcases scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the
humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the changing
scope of “Asia” as a concept and method is today an object of vital critical
concern. Deeply transnational and transhistorical in scope, Verge emphasizes
thematic and conceptual links among the disciplines and regional/area studies
formations that address Asia in a variety of particularist (national,
subnational, individual) and generalist (national, regional, global) modes.
Responding to the ways in which large-scale social, cultural, and economic
concepts like the world, the globe, or the universal (not to mention East Asian
cousins like tianxia or datong) are reshaping the ways we think about the
present, the past and the future, the journal publishes scholarship that
occupies and enlarges the proximities among disciplinary and historical fields,
from the ancient to the modern periods. The journal emphasizes
multidisciplinary engagement—a crossing and dialogue of the disciplines that
does not erase disciplinary differences, but uses them to make possible new
conversations and new models of critical thought.
Submission Deadline: November 1,
2019.
Guidelines for submission
Essays
(between 6,000-10,000 words) should be prepared according to the author-date +
bibliography format as outlined in section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide, and submitted electronically to verge@psu.edu.
Authors'
names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate
document with the author's name and address and the title of the article with
your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first
person in the submitted text or notes if such references would identify them;
any necessary references to the author's previous work, for example, should be
in the third person.
Edited
by Jessamyn Abel (Penn State University) and Leo Coleman (Hunter College)
Please
direct all inquiries and submissions to verge@psu.edu
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