May be of interest...
Dr. Kath Browne,
Senior Lecturer,
School of the Environment,
Cockcroft Building,
Lewes Road,
Brighton,
BN2 4GJ,
England.
Tel: +44 1273 642377
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Subject: cfp 'The Life of the Gift', a special issue of parallax 16.1
parallax 16:1 (54)
'The Life of the Gift'
parallax calls for papers for a themed issue on the
life of the gift, to be edited by Myra J. Hird,
Professor and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's
University, Ontario. The aim of this themed issue is
to invite critical reflections upon a broadly defined
understanding of 'gifting' and its purchase on
enduring interdisciplinary issues and debates (such as
'cost-benefit' scenarios) centred on culture/nature,
human/nonhuman, self/other and foreign/familiar
bifurcations.
It begins with a series of questions about gifting as
ontology: Can gifting be 'embodied' if it has no
presence and is only an economic relation? If giving
is often corporeal and non-volitional, then what about
gifts between humans and other-than human bodies? How
might we recognize and respond with such gifts, for
instance the corporeal gifting of 'companion species',
natural disasters, health, symbioses, ecology,
nano-engineering, reproduction and so on? If we can
enter into relations of give and take with nonhuman
others, what about their relations with each other?
Can we imagine giving or gifting as a condition beyond
human life, or even beyond life? What is lost and what
is gained - what ethical openings and foreclosures are
enabled - by such a radical extension? Contributions
are welcomed from the social sciences, natural
sciences and humanities including philosophy, critical
theory, cultural studies, post-colonial studies,
history, literature, art history, film studies and the
visual arts, geography, sociology, gender studies,
queer theory, biology and physics.
Contributors may also wish to provide more empirically
focused analyses of gifting. We particularly welcome
contributions that approach the topic from
interdisciplinary perspectives.
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2008.
Please refer to the journal for submission guidelines
regarding manuscript length and format (
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/tparauth.asp).
Please send your article electronically and with four
hard copies to:
Dr. Myra J. Hird
Professor and Queen's National Scholar
Sociology Department
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6 Canada
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Noreen Giffney, PhD (NUI)
Women's Studies (WERRC), School of Social Justice
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington Building
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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