[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: The Arab Studies Journal at Georgetown University

[Onur İnal]

The Arab Studies Journal at Georgetown University invites submissions adresssing 
The Dynamics of Space in the Middle East and North Africa.

Until recently, scholarship concerned with issues of space in the Middle East focused primarily on the city. Approaches varied from functional and political sociology to studies of aesthetic and material culture.

Debates about the existence and characteristics of an "Islamic city" were particularly heated and reflected subtle yet critical shifts in the field at
large. More recent works have become increasingly nuanced as scholars from various disciplines have begun to address space not merely as a pre-existing terrain but as a category of critical analysis. The relative slowness of this shift can be partly explained by the serious challenge
that analysis of space poses to the identity, coherency, and linearity assumed by more conventional categories of analysis. Received  categories of identity or cultures may well shatter when re-examined from the perspective of space.

Space, as Edward Soja reminds us, has long been marginalized and muted in critical social theory. What contributions could analyses of space make to an understanding of the Middle East? How would perspectives on this  area change when looked at through the prism of spatial formations and conceptualizations?

The Arab Studies Journal invites scholars to address these and other questions arising from an analysis of space. Scholars are encouraged to submit papers from all fields of the social sciences and humanities. Comparative studies between different areas (within and beyond the  Middle East) are particularly welcome. This issue of the Arab Studies Journal hopes to contribute to and advance the growing interest in spatial questions in Middle Eastern Studies, and also engage broader theoretical debates, which transcend geography and disciplinary boundaries.

Submissions must adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition.

Papers may be submitted online at http://www.arabstudiesjournal.org or mailed to:

Editors
Arab Studies Journal
ICC 241
Georgetown University
Washington
DC 20057, USA

Deadline for Submission: May 1st, 2006
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