[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Material and Visual Culture: Narrating National Heritage in Global Contexts (deadline May 15, 2009)

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Way, Jennifer <Jennifer.Way at unt.edu>



Material and Visual Culture: Narrating National Heritage in Global Contexts

A special-themed issue of Material Culture Review
http://culture.cbu.ca/mcr/index.html invites contributions that advance 
our understanding of the ways relationships of material and visual 
culture contribute to cultural tourism generally, and particularly, to 
the ways cultural tourism narrates national heritage in global contexts. 
Narrating may be understood to mean representing or conveying something 
about events, situations or other features relevant to or exemplifying 
national heritage, defined in this instance as human landscape as well 
as social, cultural and natural environments, objects, images, ideas and 
practices.

A range of approaches and methods are welcome. Contributors may address 
any of the following questions or raise others that explore 
relationships of material and visual culture historically or in the present.

How does the interplay of material and visual culture create, modify, 
destroy or participate in sustaining, representing or remembering forms 
and practices of national heritage, globally? What challenges does 
narrating national heritage in global contexts bring to relationships of 
material and visual culture? How and to what ends do material and visual 
culture facilitate the mobility of national heritage? How do their 
relationships foster, promote or re-narrativize national memory, 
identity, history or tradition along transnational pathways established 
through diaspora, exile, migration or travel and including to former 
émigrés and diasporic communities? In what ways and to what effects do 
material and visual culture together address people as the subjects and 
subjectivities of cultural tourism? Conversely, how do the subjects 
shape and otherwise alert us to features and processes of the interplay 
of material and visual culture? What enables material and visual culture 
to constitute a contact zone through which national subjects and 
heritages connect? How do material and visual culture link personal and 
civic history to national heritage in global contexts? How do they 
position national heritage in relation to cultural as well as other 
types of tourism?

Contributors are invited to submit articles, research reports or 
exhibition reviews formatted according to the guidelines available on 
the website for Material Culture Review,
http://culture.cbu.ca/mcr/submissions.html.  The deadline for an
expression of interest, consisting of a 300-word abstract and cv, is
May 15. Completed work will be due August 1, 2009 to Jennifer Way,
JWay at unt.edu.


Jennifer Way
College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas
<JWay at unt.edu>