*** Second Call for Chapters ***
CFP for edited volume
Volume editors: Karolina Doughty (Wageningen University & Research), Michelle Duffy (Federation University Australia), Theresa Harada (Wollongong University)
Building from our recent special issue published in the journal Emotion, Space and Society (Doughty, Duffy and Harada, 2016), we are seeking contributions for an edited volume focused on more-than-representational approaches to sound and music.
A focus on the processes of sound requires us to take up new ways of thinking about embodiment and sound, because it draws our attention to ourselves not as separate entities situated within a place, but as very much embedded in and through the human and non-human elements of that space. Yet, this also raises ‘the thorny issue of how to explore and experiment’ with what sound is and how it works (Wood et al. 2007: 868). Non-representational theory offers a means to do this through its considerations of the fleeting experiences, feelings and encounters that while often banal and unexceptional, are integral to shaping our everyday worlds.
How does music and sound connect people to the diverse places and spaces of everyday life? In what ways do sound and music reconfigure social and material spaces? If we tune our analytical attention into the background, what does this bring to our understanding of the affective and emotional textures of the various spaces of the everyday? This book examines the more-than-representational registers of sound, asking how sound comes to be a meaningful ingredient in the microgeographies of place-making, through the workings of affect, emotion, and atmosphere, and how sound contributes to shape a variety of embodied and spatially situated experiences, and how such aspects can be harnessed methodologically.
The contributions to the book will chime with larger debates on the relations between representation and the non- or more-than-representational that are taking place across the social sciences and humanities in the wake of the cultural turn. More specifically, the book contributes to the fertile theoretical intersections of sound, affect, emotion, and atmosphere.
The collection will be submitted to the new Cultural Geography series at Edward-Elgar Publishing, edited by Katy Crossan, with a planned publication date of early-2018.
We are welcoming contributions from scholars working on topics that may include (but are not limited to):
- Sound, affect, and atmosphere
- Acoustic ethnographies
- Sound and individual/collective wellbeing
- Sound and place-making
- Sonic communities
- Sonic ecologies
- Sonic art
Chapter proposals should be 250-300 words accompanied by a brief author biography. Final contributions will be 5000-7000 words.
Please email proposals and bios to all editors: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask], and [log in to unmask] by 26 February 2017.
We will aim to make a quick decision and notify authors by 6 March. Completed chapters will be due by 30 September 2017.
References
Wood, N, Duffy, M, Smith, SJ (2007) The Art of Doing (Geographies of) Music. Environment & Planning D: Society & Space 25(5): 867-889
Doughty, K., Duffy, M. and Harada, T. (2016). Practices of emotional and affective geographies of sound. Emotion, Space and Society 20: 39-41
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