[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Here’s a name for papers for a particular situation on “Islands and Time – Island Temporalities within the Context of Island Analysis” for Narodna umjetnost–Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Analysis. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2022.
Description: Within the context of the social sciences and humanities, analysis on islands from quite a lot of disciplines is primarily characterised by spatiality as a elementary determinant of island cultures. The frequent emphasis on spatiality has resulted in representations of islands as constrained each in on a regular basis life and geographically and marked by a historicised current and a belated modernity. In doing so, the transformative and dynamic character of tradition has usually been uncared for, in addition to the heterogeneity of the lived expertise of island communities. By inserting an analytical concentrate on island temporalities in relation to the regularly emphasised spatiality of the islands themselves, the intention of this thematic situation is to contribute to the growth of data on the complexities of island communities and their negotiations of temporalities, but additionally to interact within the present scientific debate on the poetics and politics of temporality.
Temporality is commonly uncritically taken to indicate a singular and linear stream of time, one colloquially and metaphorically known as the passage of time, which overlooks the heterogeneity of temporal experiences and their advanced relationship with area. Analysis impressed by the postcolonial method has already problematized the phenomenon of temporality past deterministic constructions of linearity and chronological causality by criticizing the temporal singularity ensuing from Western hegemony and capitalist logic. In an try to maneuver away from privileged spatialised approaches and guided by information of culturally, traditionally, and socially formed experiences of temporality, the temporal flip has opened up a variety of stimulating analysis subjects. Bearing in mind the entanglement of area, class, gender, identification, group, mobility, and tradition proves to be a prerequisite for understanding the social manufacturing of time in particular cultural contexts. Primarily based on many acquainted examples, there’s a rising concern for a essential understanding of temporality that goes additional than our typical, summary, clockwise-oriented conception of time. Up to date time is skilled by radical contradictions because it dictates our on a regular basis actions and marks our language. Notions of “me time” or “no time in any respect” basically reconfigure our on a regular basis life. “Time is cash” parallelly co-exists with eager for “boredom” or “time at a slower tempo”. Even now, within the “time of Covid-19” and ecological crises, we crave for leisure and procrastination to flee potential darkish ideas of what generally seems like a not-so-bright future. Awash in a large number of temporalities, now’s the time for ethnographically grounded analysis that may allow us to consider and past the same old notion of time in our on a regular basis lives.
On this thematic situation of Narodna umjetnost – Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Analysis, we method temporality as a traditionally and socially located course of, or as a approach of being that’s created in mutually interconnected processes between people and their cultural contexts. Our purpose is to supply new views on the variety of temporal experiences on islands, which are sometimes decreased to essentialized notions of life on the islands, nostalgia for the misplaced “island custom”, and rhetoric on depopulation coupled with dramatic appeals to avoid wasting the remaining island cultural phenomena (conventional structure, the financial system, dialects, meals tradition, and so on.).
We wish to replicate on the heterogeneity of lived experiences by the prism of island temporalities conceived as particular historic, social, and cultural modalities of being. It’s our purpose to refresh our understanding of island temporalities by enriching the spatial perspective for various temporal modalities that form the best way islanders and non-islanders expertise time (the position of seasonal rhythms, the echoes of improvement insurance policies, the co-existence of a number of temporalities, together with temporal fragments, expectations, boredom, static notions of time). We invite you to contribute your papers and thus be part of us in reflecting on the analytical classes of temporality and creating the vocabulary for occupied with island temporalities. [. . .]
For extra info and directions, go to the Name for Papers at https://www.ief.hr/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ISLANDS-AND-TIME-CALL-FOR-PAPERS-2022.pdf