CALL FOR PAPERS
Issue: Aug/Dec 2013
Deadline for submissions: 01/06/2013
The Journal Ilha do Desterro has opened a Call For Papers for its Aug/Dec 2013 issue: DIS-PLACED SIGHT/SITES: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON FILM, MEDIA AND LITERATURE.
All submitted articles are reviewed first by the responsible editor. Once approved, they are submitted to two referees, who through a blind evaluation shall give their final assessment on the article. The articles are only going to be approved provided they are in accordance to the proposed theme for each edition.
All communication with this journal, including the article submission, must be made through this web site in the spaces reserved for these purposes. To submit articles, you must register on the website
(http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/user/register), fill in correctly the required data, follow the instructions and send the file relating to your text in accordance with the norms.
Dis-placed sights/sites: contemporary perspectives on film, media and literature.
Lugares e olhares des-locados: perspectivas sobre cinema, mídias e literatura
Place, space, territory are notions which are constantly being problematised by contemporary cultural productions and critical theories. Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer, for example, suggest that we are entering a new nomadic era (Crepuscular Dawn, p. 71) and Eva Rueschmann (Moving pictures, migrating identities, p. ix) calls attention to the issues raised in a world on the move where global cultures are increasingly mobile and disperse (even if connected in complex ways). Etienne Balibar discusses the relation between capitalism and the dispersal of peoples, showing that there are those who circulate capital and those whom capital circulates (Politics and the other scene, p. 83). What we have is a panorama where pairs such as global/local, centre/periphery, here/there, national/tranational, inclusion/exclusion are questioned for the borders separating their terms is gradually being blurred.
Contemporary cinema, media and literatures are especially sensitive to these problems and their narratives, images and sound not only put forward a critique of established spaces but they also - in a very productive way - create other spaces which need to be mapped out. These works produce dis-placement, an expression which stresses the play of simultaneities that characterises the contemporary cultural production which is not afraid to explore the space “in between” the terms of the aforementioned dichotomies (thus questioning how relevant these very dichotomies are for understanding and enjoying such works). Therefore, in order to better investigate such production sight, hearing and feeling must also be dis-placed, suggesting approaches that can also explore the spaces “in between”.
We are interested, for this issue of Ilha do Desterro, in new critical and theoretical approaches regarding contemporary cultures which take into consideration the political issues that not only dis-place the gaze but also question notions of place/territory. Some of the issues include
• Re/visions of cosmopolitism
• Figurations of frontiers
• 21st century transnationalism
• The relevance of utopias, dystopias and heterotopias for the contemporary world
• Biopolitical and necropolitical spaces and the possibility of resistence
• The place of and for the human in 21st century
• De/re/territorialisation as representations of territory and epistemological turn
• Re/configurations of spaces of race, gender and sexuality
Conditions for publication:
1. The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal, otherwise explain in "Comentários ao Editor" at the time of the article´s submission.
2. The articles should have until 9 thousand words or 45 thousand characters (around 25 pages, A4), including the bibliographical references, notes, and tables, besides they should agree with the proposed theme for the issue. An abstract (maximum 10 lines) and key-words (maximum 5) should be sent with the article in Portuguese and in English. Portuguese titles should also be translated to English. The articles must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format (provided they do not exceed 2MB).Guidelines for Authors.
3. The reviews should have a maximum of 2 thousand words and the reviewed books should agree with the issue's theme.
4. The articles in English related to literature must adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements provided by the MLA - Modern Language Association, those in English related to linguistic must follow APA norms. The Portuguese articles must follow ABNT norms.
5. The identification of authorship of this work was removed from the file and the Properties option in Word, thus ensuring the confidentiality of the revised criteria, if subjected to peer review (eg, Articles), according to the instructions available in Ensuring a Blind Peer Avaliation.
All communication with this journal, including the article submission, must be made through this web site in the spaces reserved for these purposes. To submit articles, you must register on the website, fill in correctly the required data, follow the instructions and send the file relating to your text in accordance with the norms.