[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: M/C Journal 'home' issue (6/29/07; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

                           M/C - Media and Culture
                      http://www.media-culture.org.au/
             is calling for contributors to the 'home' issue of

                                 M/C Journal
                    http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which
contains all the issues released so far, at
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>.

                           Call for Papers: 'home'
              Edited by Andrew Gorman-Murray and Robyn Dowling

Home is emotive and powerful. A basic desire for many, home is saturated
with the meanings, memories, emotions, experiences and relationships of
everyday life. Long neglected as a focus of academic scrutiny, interest
in home and domesticity is now growing apace across the humanities and
social sciences. In this issue of M/C Journal we contribute to these
critical voices, further untangling the intricate and multi-layered
connections between home and everyday life in the contemporary world.

Home is ambiguous and multi-faceted. For many, home is a place of
belonging, intimacy, security, relationship and selfhood. Many draw
their sense of self, their identity, through an investment in their
home, whether as house, hometown or homeland. But simultaneously, home
is not always a well-spring of succour and goodness, and others
experience alienation, rejection, hostility, danger and fear 'at home'.
Home can be a site of domestic violence or 'house arrest'; young gay men
and lesbians may feel alienated in the family home; asylum seekers are
banished from their homelands; indigenous peoples are often dispossessed
of their homelands.

Home is complex and multi-scalar. For many, house and home are
conflated, so that a sense of home is coterminous with a physical
dwelling structure. For others, home is signified by intimate familial
or community relationships which extend beyond the residence and stretch
across a neighbourhood. Without contradiction, we can speak of hometowns
and homelands, so that home can be felt at the scale of the town, city,
region or nation. For others - international migrants and refugees,
global workers, communities of mixed descent - home can be stretched
into transnational belongings.

'Home is thus a spatial imaginary: a set of intersecting and variable
ideas and feelings, which are related to context, and which construct
places, extend across spaces and scales, and connects places' (Blunt and
Dowling 2006: 2). This issue of M/C Journal seeks papers responding to
these prompts. Many of these themes find resonance in various media
forms within and beyond Australia, including suburban dramas
(Neighbours, Desperate Housewives, The Secret Life of Us), lifestyle and
reality television (Renovation Rescue, The Block, Border Security), film
(The Castle, Floating Life, Rabbit-Proof Fence), magazines (Australian
Vogue Living, Better Homes and Gardens), as well as life writing,
novels, art and public debates about immigration and Australian values.
Possible themes include: domestic lifestyling and material cultures;
homemaking and identity; neighbour(hood)s; domopolitics and homeland
security; indigenous and nationalist politics of home and belonging;
transnational homemaking; diaspora and homing desires.

Submit papers of 3,000 words in length to the editors at
home at journal.media-culture.org.au.

Article deadline:     29 June 2007
Issue release date:   22 August 2007

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in
1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the
meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues
of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions
page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal
articles are blind peer-reviewed.

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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2007:

'error':   article deadline 24 August 2007,  release date 17 October 2007
'vote':    article deadline 19 October 2007, release date 12 December 2007

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M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.
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M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there.
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                                                      Dr Axel Bruns

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  General Editor                              editor at media-culture.org.au
  M/C - Media and Culture                http://www.media-culture.org.au/


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