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*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 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. Provisionally organized around the twin concepts of cultural bricolage and the researcher/practitioner as bricoleur (Denzin and Lincoln 2011), this special issue aims to collate and provoke critical discussion trained on /spatial bricolage/ as an interdisciplinary (or ‘undisciplined’) nexus of practices. 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’. 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’ geographies of place. Engaging with deep mapping, spatial anthropology, or spatial humanities methods, contributions for this Spatial Bricolage special issue are therefore sought from a wide range of fields that engage with questions that speak to issues of eclecticism, bricolage and 'making do' in humanities research on space and place. Papers are especially welcome that examine the role of: autoethnographic methods and practices, performance and gonzo ethnography, digital spatial methods, or approaches which explore issues of ethics in connection with site-specific spatial methods (or which consider 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. ---- Please send abstracts and expressions of interest (and any questions about the special issue) to guest editor Les Roberts [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> For details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/instructions Contact the assistant editor Ms. Jie Gu at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> for questions regarding the submission process or Les Roberts [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> for questions regarding the appropriateness of the content or style of your manuscript. Humanities is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. No Article Processing Charges (APC) apply for well-prepared manuscripts. For more information please visithttp://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/ <http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/>. -- Les Roberts (Dr) Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies Department of Communication and Media School of the Arts 19 Abercromby Square University of Liverpool Liverpool. L69 7ZG. 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