Given the awareness-raising motive underlying all critical research, and given my personal inclination to see more proposals from forward-thinking human geographers, I think the following call for proposals will be of interest to some of the members of this list.
Innovative Ethnographies, a new Routledge book series. Series editor: Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads University.
Contemporary ethnographers have meaningfully expanded upon the established tradition of impressionistic and confessional fieldwork to produce works that not only stimulate the intellect, but that also delight the senses. From visual to reflexive ethnography, from narrative to arts-based inquiry, from hypertext to multimodal scholarship, and from autoethnography to performance ethnography, fieldwork has undergone a revolution in data collection practice and strategies of representation and dissemination. Innovative ethnography is a catalytic field of experimentation and reflection, innovation and revelation, transformation and call to action. The new Routledge Innovative Ethnographies book series publishes fieldwork that appeals to new and traditional audiences of scholarly research through the use of new media and new genres. Combining the book format with aesthetically-sensitive multimedia material hosted on the series website, this series challenges the boundaries between ethnography and documentary journalism, between the scholarly essay and the novel, betweenthe academy and the public. From the use of narrative and drama to the use of reflexivity and pathos, from the contextualization of ethnographic documentation in felt textures of place to the employment of artistic conventions for the sake of good writing, books in this series live to entertain, enlighten, and educate.
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