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*FROM*: Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context
*TOPIC*: Maps and Map-Making in Asian Cultural Studies
We invite submissions of full-length essays on the widely conceived
theme of “Maps and Map-Making in Asian Cultural Studies” for the Winter
2014/15 issue.
Our sense of a particular place is always conditioned by prior
assumptions that relate to the sense of our position in the world. One
of the most important means for orienting ourselves in the world is
through the use of maps. What is our sense of maps and map-making in
Asian cultural studies, both past and present?
We are interested in a range of contributions on these issues, including
map-making and map makers; historical atlases; school atlases; competing
territorial mappings; the mapping of territorial claims and disputes;
cartography; the concepts of the Orient and the Occident; the South and
the North; mind maps; regionalism, nationalism, globalism; discoveries,
encounters and conquests; near, middle and far; maps and the military;
alternative Asias; middle kingdoms; centers and peripheries, world
systems and sub-regions; pop culture and mapping; as well as related
themes, questions and issues relating to the cultural, strategic,
military, political and literary importance of maps and map-making for
Asia.
Please e-mail a one-page abstract (300 words maximum) to Terence Patrick
Murphy (Dept. of English, Yonsei University, by December 31 2013.
*LINK:* http://web.yonsei.ac.kr/bk21/index.htm
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Dr Sarah Dauncey
British Academy Mid-Career Fellow & Lecturer in Chinese Studies
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield
http://www.shef.ac.uk/seas/
Honorary Secretary, British Association for Chinese Studies
Co-Editor, Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies (JBACS)
http://www.bacsuk.org.uk/
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Sheffield, S10 2TD
United Kingdom
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