*Call for contributors: **/Humanities /**(ISSN 2076-0787) special issue:
“Spatial Bricolage: Methodological Eclecticism and the Poetics of
'Making Do'"***
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/spatial_bricolage*
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Guest editor: Les Roberts, University of Liverpool
Dear Colleagues,
This is a proposal for a special issue of the journal /Humanities/, on
the theme of ‘Spatial Bricolage’: the art and poetics of ‘making do’ (de
Certeau 1984: xv) in spatial humanities research. Expanding on themes
explored in an earlier Humanities special issue on ‘Deep Mapping
<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/DeepMapping>’
(Roberts 2015/16), this follow-up collection places firmer emphasis on
questions of method: the ‘how’ rather than the ‘what’ that variously
informs the doing of deep mapping and spatial anthropology.
Provisionally organized around the twin concepts of cultural bricolage
and the researcher/practitioner as bricoleur, this special issue aims to
collate and provoke critical discussion trained on /spatial bricolage/
as an interdisciplinary (or ‘undisciplined’) nexus of practices and
pick-and-mix methods. Claude Lévi-Strauss described bricolage as ‘[the
making] do with “whatever is at hand”… [; to address oneself] to a
collection of oddments left over from human endeavours’ (2004: 17, 19).
If eclecticism informs a deep mapping practice increasingly oriented
around the embodied and embedded researcher, then it is one that
correspondingly finds its creative expression in the art and poetics of
‘making do’. As a ‘maker of quilts’, or, as in filmmaking, ‘a person who
assembles images into montages’ (Denzin and Lincoln 2011: 4), the
researcher-as-bricoleur makes do insofar as what it is she or he is
‘mapping’ is recast as a representational and affective assemblage. In
the same way that calls for a ‘more artful and crafty’ sociology are
underwritten by a push towards more ‘open methods’ in the social
sciences (Back and Puwar 2012: 9), approaches in the interdisciplinary
field of spatial and geo-humanities strive to embrace a methodological
eclecticism adaptable to the qualitative dynamics of experiential,
performative or ‘non-representational’ (Vannini 2015) geographies of
place. Engaging with deep mapping ‘in all its messy, inclusive glory’
(Scherf 2015: 343), contributions for this Spatial Bricolage special
issue are therefore sought from a wide range of fields that address
questions that speak to issues of methodological eclecticism in
spatial/geo-humanities research. Papers are especially welcome that
examine the role of autoethnographic methods and practices, performance
and gonzo ethnography, digital methods, or which address some of the
ethical questions and constraints thrown up in relation to urban
cultural bricolage as a mode of critical spatial research within the
academy.
The submission deadline is *1 July 2017.*
**As with the previous Deep Mapping
<http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/201> collection, the special
issue will also be published in separate e-book format.
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Humanities is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access
by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as
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http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.
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Les Roberts (Dr)
Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies
Department of Communication and Media
School of the Arts
19 Abercromby Square
University of Liverpool
Liverpool. L69 7ZG. UK
tel: +44 151 794 3102
www.liv.ac.uk/communication-and-media/staff/les-roberts/
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