[Bilimsel Haber] Rhetoric of Place: Public, Private, Secular and/or Sacred - Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power

[Gonul Pultar]

*Rhetoric of Place: Public, Private, Secular and/or Sacred - Queen: a 
journal of rhetoric and power*

	

	
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Call for Papers:
The Rhetorics of Place: Public, Private, Secular and/or Sacred

The Editors of Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power are accepting 
submissions for consideration on the theme of -

The Rhetorics of Place: Public, Private, Secular and/or Sacred.

Perhaps achieving apotheosis with Foucault's theoretical conscription of 
Bentham's Panopticon, architecture and other material sites have been 
used to generate ideas about space and power. In turn, the theoretical 
material seems to have lost sight of the places themselves. The Editors 
would like to explore the rhetoric power of specific places and their 
relationship to the society in which they are located. In other words, 
while theoretical/textual engagement is crucial to this call for 
submissions, the Editors will be most interested in publishing pieces 
that take one or more actual places as their object of analysis.

Questions that might guide or inspire (but are not meant to limit) inquiry:
How is power reinforced through architecture?
How is power diffused through urban design?
How might an ethnographic approach to place contribute to our 
understanding of power?
What is the difference between private and public space/place, and how 
is this difference reinforced?
What is the relationship between "space" and "place"?
What is the intersection of private/public with secular/sacred place?
How is the sacred reinforced visually? architecturally?
How do buildings and spaces generate civil religion?
Do acoustics contribute to the edification of power?

As usual, submissions from all disciplines are welcome.
Formats include written and hyper-text, audio or video podcasts. We 
strongly encourage multi-media formats - it's an electronic journal!

Submissions should be sent by *1 May 2009* to J David Hester or Erika 
Olbricht, Sr. Editors, Queen. We will consider abstracts as well as 
completed works.

-J David Hester (thevoidboy at mac dot com)
-Erika Olbricht (erika.olbricht at gmail dot com)

	J David Hester
Centre for Rhetorics and Hermeneutics
Email: thevoidboy at mac.co <mailto:thevoidboy at mac.co>
Visit the website at http://www.ars-rhetorica.net