disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 27: Archives
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2017
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/call_for_papers.pdf
The editorial collective of the open access journal, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, calls for submissions that explore “Archives” for an issue to be published summer 2018. As early as the 1970s when French philosopher Michel Foucault published The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse of Language (1972), archives have undergone a conceptual shift from mere repositories of historical documents to representing processes of knowledge production and forms of social meaning. Two decades later, another French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, contemplated the power and authority of archives in his Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1996). Today, archives continue to receive attention from scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. From the archival memory-work of Karen Till (2005; 2008) and Caitlin DeSilvey (2007), to recent scholarship on (post-)colonial archives and tribal knowledge (Christen 2012; Caswell 2014), the topic of archives has come to occupy a central space in the discourses of a vast array of disciplines and approaches. In addition to providing new insights, these works also serve to question widely held institutional beliefs and practices. In this vein, we seek submissions that look at a range of archives, including national, personal, and community archives to investigate the ways in which documents, images, objects, and places serve various purposes and occupy different types of cultural, intellectual, and physical spaces. Possible topics may include:
- Archives in practice
- Bodies in archives / bodies as archives
- Participatory approaches to archives
- Community archives
- Archival methodology
- Digital archives
- Memory and archives
- Rhetoric of the archive
- Literary archives
- Art and archive
- Archives and (post-)colonialism
- Race, culture, and archives
- Silence and speaking / absence and presence
- Hauntings
- Queer and queering archives
- Affect and archives
- The future of archives
Additionally, submissions may explore memory institutions, broadly conceived, in order to touch on the constitution of libraries, museums, and universities, and their relation to social practice and theory. Finally, we welcome submissions that investigate archives and archival practices beyond the borders of the United States and outside of the global west.
More details can be found here: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/call_for_papers.pdf
Publishing in the Archives Profession 