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Edited book on Ethnography of Material Culture, Technology, and Everyday Life
Deadline: September 1, 2007
I am seeking proposals of original writings for a forthcoming edited book tentatively titled: ?Mundane Stuff: Ethnographic Approaches to Technology as Material Culture.? The deadline for proposal submission is September 1, 2007. Completed chapters would be due some time in the spring of 2008. Serious publisher interest in this book has already been expressed. The writing is intended to be classroom friendly, though the intended audience is comprised mainly of graduate students and scholars.
Studying technology as everyday life material culture means demystifying technology and approaching technics (i.e. material objects) and techniques (i.e. tactics, strategies) as pragmatic ways of attributing meaning to the world while simultaneously shaping it. Such as an approach calls for reflexive, creative, situated ethnographic research strategies which employ both abstract knowledge and mundane practices of meaning-making while attempting to understand both users and material objects.
I am seeking three types of proposed chapters.
1. Theoretical chapters which provide both an overview and reflection on one of the following analytical perspectives on technology as everyday life material culture: symbolic interactionism, actor-network theory, cultural studies, and phenomenology. Required length: 5,500 words.
2. Methodological chapters which offer both overview and reflection on the ethnographic study and representation of technology as material culture from the angle of one of the following approaches: performance ethnography, visual ethnography, narrative ethnography, analytical ethnography. Required length: 5,500 words.
3. Empirical chapters which focus on the reporting of original ethnographic research on technology as material culture. Possible topics are limitless. For example, they may include the study of domestic objects, means of transportation, clothing and other body-modifying/adorning objects, workplace objects, toys, etc. Approximate required length: 7,500 words.
If you are interested please submit a tentative title, 100/150 word abstract, and author bio to Phillip Vannini: [email protected] or simply contact me to discuss ideas or ask for more information.
Phillip Vannini, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communication and Culture
2005 Sooke Road
Royal Roads University
Victoria BC V9B 5Y2
CANADA
Phone: (250) 391-2600 ext. 4477 (no voice mail)
Fax: (250) 391-2694
Email: [email protected]
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Edited book on Ethnography of Material Culture, Technology, and Everyday Life
Edited book on Ethnography of Material Culture, Technology, and Everyday Life
Deadline: September 1, 2007
I am seeking proposals of original writings for a forthcoming edited book tentatively titled: ?Mundane Stuff: Ethnographic Approaches to Technology as Material Culture.? The deadline for proposal submission is September 1, 2007. Completed chapters would be due some time in the spring of 2008. Serious publisher interest in this book has already been expressed. The writing is intended to be classroom friendly, though the intended audience is comprised mainly of graduate students and scholars.
Studying technology as everyday life material culture means demystifying technology and approaching technics (i.e. material objects) and techniques (i.e. tactics, strategies) as pragmatic ways of attributing meaning to the world while simultaneously shaping it. Such as an approach calls for reflexive, creative, situated ethnographic research strategies which employ both abstract knowledge and mundane practices of meaning-making while attempting to understand both users and material objects.
I am seeking three types of proposed chapters.
1. Theoretical chapters which provide both an overview and reflection on one of the following analytical perspectives on technology as everyday life material culture: symbolic interactionism, actor-network theory, cultural studies, and phenomenology. Required length: 5,500 words.
2. Methodological chapters which offer both overview and reflection on the ethnographic study and representation of technology as material culture from the angle of one of the following approaches: performance ethnography, visual ethnography, narrative ethnography, analytical ethnography. Required length: 5,500 words.
3. Empirical chapters which focus on the reporting of original ethnographic research on technology as material culture. Possible topics are limitless. For example, they may include the study of domestic objects, means of transportation, clothing and other body-modifying/adorning objects, workplace objects, toys, etc. Approximate required length: 7,500 words.
If you are interested please submit a tentative title, 100/150 word abstract, and author bio to Phillip Vannini: [email protected] or simply contact me to discuss ideas or ask for more information.
Phillip Vannini, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communication and Culture
2005 Sooke Road
Royal Roads University
Victoria BC V9B 5Y2
CANADA
Phone: (250) 391-2600 ext. 4477 (no voice mail)
Fax: (250) 391-2694
Email: [email protected]
- Call For Chapters: Educational Media And Technology Yearbook
Call for Chapters: Educational Media and Technology Yearbook Work is beginning on the 2013 edition of EMTY (Educational Media and Technology Yearbook). In publication for 36 years, the yearbook provides a timely snapshot of issues in the field of...
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- Cfp: New Book On Popular Culture And 9/11 (greenwood Publishing, Forthcoming)
CFP: New book on Popular Culture and 9/11 (Greenwood Publishing, forthcoming) Essays sought (750-1000 words each) for a forthcoming volume on popular culture since September 11th. Essays must be written from a critical or cultural studies approach. Planned...
- Cfp: Popular Culture And The Local: An Interdisciplinary Conference
CFP: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE LOCAL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada Friday May 12 - Saturday, May 13, 2006 The conference will explore questions of popular culture and local identity. We welcome proposals...
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Authors are sought for individual chapters of the Europe volume of the Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, a six-volume set under contract with the Greenwood Publishing Group. Each volume will consist of narrative chapters, similar in style and...