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CFP Ethnologia Fennica 2/2024: Sensing the urban

Call for papers by Ethnologia Fennica:

Sensory ethnography described by Sarah Pink (2009) pays particular attention to the multisensoriality of experience, perception, knowing and practices. In addition to the present moment emphasized in the ethnographic research, senses as part of the urban life can be studied in different temporalities, in past, present and future. This can be done by using, for example, archives, documents for future urban planning, or participatory design processes as research materials.

In this call, we invite researchers who study the urban pasts, presents and futures, to consider with us what kinds of ontological, methodological, theoretical or empirical questions and consequences the sensorial turn brings into the study of urbanity.

People live in complex relationships and entanglements with their urban environment. They move through the city and spend they work and free time in urban settings. They live with other humans, but also with non-humans, and the materiality of their environment affects their lives in multiple ways. To study this complexity with sensory point of departure, like ethnography, means looking at the city by emphasizing people’s sensory experiences and narrations of it. However, we do not want to limit the research only to the present, but we are also curious of the past (and future) sense of the urban. It is, for example, interesting how different generations experience the urban in different times.

Urban environments, and consequently, lives lived in them, are often planned and designed according to the prevailing discourses, ideologies and ideas, while they are simultaneously formed in different layers of time. These in turn direct and contextualize the sensory experiences, knowing of the city and practices related to and in the city.

The method of sensory ethnography is currently well established. Ethnographers have paid attention to different senses, such as eyesight, sound, smell and touch as well as noticed that the experiences are often multisensorial. It has been suggested that there are even more ways of sensing the world than we acknowledge at the present.

For this special issue we invite articles that discuss different ways of doing sensory research in urban settings containing sensorial perception, knowing and practices related to city and urban environment in present and through time.

The special issue is edited within the research project “Designed, experienced and sensed socio-material wellbeing in Linnakaupunki, Turku” (Hyvinvoinnin suunniteltu, koettu ja aistittu sosio-materiaalisuus Turun Linnakaupungissa). The project combines perspectives of Ethnology, Cultural History, Museology and Futures Research, and is conducted at the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University and University of Oulu.

Ethnologia Fennica is a peer-reviewed, international open access journal. The journal publishes original scholarly articles, review articles, conference reports and book reviews written in English. The articles undergo double-blind peer review. The Finnish Publication Forum classifies Ethnologia Fennica as a leading academic journal at Level 2 (on a scale of 0 to 3).

Please submit your abstract by 8 December 2023, and the article manuscript by 22 of March 2024. The deadline for reviews, reports and commentary texts is 31 August 2024. The issue will be published in December 2024.

Please submit your language revised article (which should not exceed 10.000 words) through the journal.fi submission system (https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn). Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting their manuscript or, if already registered, they can simply log in and begin the submission process. For further information, please see our article guidelines at https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/articlequidelines and our style guide at https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/styleguide.

Please note that in every issue, we also publish articles outside the theme, and you can submit your manuscript at any time.

CFP till Kulturella Perspektiv. Tema: Kreativt etnografiskt skrivande

Call for papers (English version below)
Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift

Tema: Kreativt etnografiskt skrivande

Etnologi har beskrivits som en ”litterär vetenskap” (Ehn 1996; Beckman 2011) då etnologiska texter bär ofta drag av skönlitteratur i form av rika miljöbeskrivningar och ett metaforiskt språk. Den etnografiska skrivakten och ett gott författarskap har länge varit prioriterad som en viktig del av forskningsprocessen, och det finns flera exempel på etnologiska studier som nått en bred läsekrets även utanför akademiska sammanhang. Under senare år har intresset för etnografiskt skrivande uppmärksammats (se t.ex. KP 2017 nr. 2 Silow Kallenberg & Ingridsdotter red.; Lykke m.fl. 2014; Richardson & St. Pierre 2005).
Till detta tema av Kulturella Perspektiv efterlyser vi bidrag som på olika sätt tillämpar ett kreativt etnografiskt skrivande och/eller resonerar metodologiskt om betydelsen av sådant skrivande inom etnologi och närliggande discipliner. Vi ser gärna bidrag som adresserar teman som autoetnografi, sensory ethnography, poetic inquiry, självreflexivt skrivande, skrivande som metod eller andra teman som bidrar till att höja kunskapen samt bidra till en kritisk vetenskaplig diskussion om kreativt etnografiskt skrivande.
Ladda upp artikelförslag (6000-8000 ord) senast 1 april 2024 på tidskriftens plattform (https://publicera.kb.se/kp). Vi accepterar bidrag skrivna på svenska, engelska, danska och norska. Artiklarna kommer att genomgå double blind peer review av två granskare. Publicering av de accepterade tematiska artiklarna sker sedan fortlöpande under 2024.
Kom ihåg att det också alltid går att skicka icke-tematiska artiklar till Kulturella Perspektiv!
Call for papers
Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift

Theme: Creative Ethnographic Writing

Ethnology has been described as a ”literary science” (Ehn 1996; Beckman 2011) as ethnological texts often bear features of fiction in the form of rich descriptions of the environment and a metaphorical language. The ethnographic act of writing and good authorship has long been prioritized as an important part of the research process, and there are several examples of ethnological studies that have reached a wide readership even outside academic contexts. In recent years, attention has been drawn to the interest in ethnographic writing (see, for example, KP 2017 no. 2, Silow Kallenberg & Ingridsdotter, eds.; Lykke et al. 2014; Richardson & St. Pierre 2005).
For this theme of Kulturella Perspektiv, we are looking for contributions that in various ways apply creative ethnographic writing and/or reason methodologically about the importance of such writing in ethnology and related disciplines. We welcome contributions that address themes such as autoethnography, sensory ethnography, poetic inquiry, self-reflexive writing, writing as a method or other themes that contribute to raising knowledge and contributing to a critical scholarly discussion about creative ethnographic writing.
Upload article proposals (6000-8000 words) no later than April 1, 2024 on the journal’s platform (https://publicera.kb.se/kp). We accept entries written in Swedish, English, Danish and Norwegian. The articles will undergo double blind peer review by two reviewers. The accepted thematic articles will then be published continuously in 2024.
Remember that it is also always possible to send non-thematic articles to Kulturella Perspektiv!

CFP to Puls nr 9

Call for papers to Puls nr 9 is now open.

Deadline: August 21, 2023

Puls – journal for ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology is an online open access journal published by Svenskt visarkiv/Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research,
Stockholm, Sweden. The main focus of Puls is ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology,
but the journal also embraces adjacent disciplines, such as other aspects of musicology
and choreology, folklore, literature, and related studies of traditional and popular
culture. Puls welcomes analyses of historical and contemporary sources as well as
empirical case studies and theoretical discussions. Puls is an annual open access journal
published on the website of Svenskt visarkiv. Each issue either focus on a specific
theme or opens up for any topic within the journal’s field. Puls’ ninth issue is an open one.