The Practices of Place
As a balance and counterpoint to the examination of scapes, we include in the volume a set of essays focusing on practices: textually constructed acts in which space and place become the recipients of actions initiated by characters, narrators, or authorial exposition.
The fifteen essays are grouped into four principal themes:
Traversing (Touristing, Trading, Emigrating, Immigrating) Click HERE
Conquering (Discovering/Mapping, Subduing, Colonizing, Technologizing) Click HERE
Dwelling (Settling, Domesticating, Nationalizing) Click HERE
Sacralizing (Liminizing, Memorializing, Making Pilgrimage, Ecologizing) Click HERE
We do not intend for writers of this section's essays to be exhaustive in their discussions: rather we invite them to work comparatively with a selection of different texts from a variety of different places and times to explore the topic. We are interested in both continuities in the representation of an activity over time and space and also discontinuities due to cultural variation, economy, or history. In the case of particularly fruitful rubrics, we may assign multiple authors to write on the same theme: in such cases, writers will produce independent essays but will cooperate with the editors and other writers to minimize ineffective overlap. Proposals for dually-authored essays written by scholars with complementary expertise are also welcomed.
Each essay will be 40,000 characters in length, with spaces, and will be due in March, 2010.
To download a SAMPLE ARTICLE on Settling, click HERE
To download a STYLESHEET for writing articles, click HERE
To discuss authoring an essay or to receive more information, please contact
Tom DuBois at tadubois@wisc.edu
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