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Call for Papers
Special issue of Southern Cultures: Built/Unbuilt
Guest Editor: Burak Erdim, NC State University College of Design
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for Built/Unbuilt, to be published Summer 2021. We will be accepting submissions for this special issue through August 31, 2020, at https://southerncultures.
Imagined and built landscapes in the South are expressions of, and exert influences on, the region’s diverse peoples, cultures, politics, and economies. This call for submissions comes at a critical time when prevailing modes of cultural and political expression are in question, and when prominent features of our built environment are rejected, removed, and reimagined. We seek work that examines the constructed spaces of the American South—from planning to design to manufacture—and the impacts of those spaces on individuals, communities, and cultures.
Topics can examine the complex set of relationships between the built environment and the production of the South as a territory and region, including ongoing spatial practices. This theme can include a variety of projects and constructions, ranging from the relatively temporary and everyday landscapes of markets, chicken houses, and textile mills; to planned and seemingly sustainable communities, massive manufacturing plants, corporate infrastructures of power, transportation, and resource extraction; along with the pipelines, walls, and fences that mark, connect, and separate people and territories. How do these projects come about, and what are their social and political aims? Who are the diverse set of actors, agents, and agencies that shape them, and promote, criticize, and mold their reception, including those whose actions and voices often do not receive attention? How do communities perceive these projects in their local, national, and global contexts in myriad and conflicting ways—for instance, as spaces of democratization and emancipation, as well as colonization and globalization? And how do southerners think about and respond to these constructions through various modes of cultural production, including literature, visual arts, and music?
Submissions can explore any topic or theme related to the built environment, and we welcome explorations of the region in the forms Southern Cultures publishes: scholarly articles, memoirs, interviews, surveys, photo essays, and shorter feature essays. We hope that submitters will interpret the idea of the issue’s theme broadly.
Possible topics and questions to explore might include (but are certainly not limited to):
As we also publish select features online, we are able to supplement print materials with video, audio, and interactive visual content. We encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential multimedia with their essay or introduction/artist’s statement.
We encourage authors to gain familiarity with the tone, scope, and style of our journal before submitting. Those whose institutions subscribe to Project Muse can read past issues for free via http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
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