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Call for Publications
Theme: History of Perception in India
Publication: Quarterly Journal of the Institute of Perception Studies
Date: Inaugural Issue (January 2018)
Deadline: 15.11.2017
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The Institute of Perception Studies, New Delhi, invites you to submit
abstracts for the first edition of the quarterly journal of the
Institute of Perception Studies, New Delhi scheduled to be published
in January, 2018. The theme of the inaugural edition of the journal
will be focussed primarily on the interplay of perception and power
in the context of India. ‘Perception’ as an entry point to research
posits the advantage of foregrounding how power struggle is imagined
by the human agent. Further, this entry point also yields the
opportunity to answer larger epistemological questions like what
constitutes ‘Perception’? Is ‘Perception’ a collective phenomenon or
can the individual control the ways in which he perceives his/her
world? As Foucault has inspired and Bernard Cohn argued in the
context of India, knowledge production by the colonial state may
itself be looked at as a product of ‘colonial perception’ and a
technology to enforce it.
The abstracts are invited on the following themes:
- ‘Perception’ in the history of India: The history of India opens up
for investigation of ‘perception’ a rich field of cases with its
(in)famous diversity. Researches may be located in these themes:
* The Caste System and ‘Perception’: The ideological strength of
the system of caste hierarchies involves ‘perception’
instrumentally for its career. Researches may look at the local
variants of the caste system, the difference of perception of
castes and comparative analysis, the hegemony of perception or the
perception of hegemony in the reproduction of the system.
* Ideology of the Colonialism and Nationalism: One of the central
methodologies in researches around ideology involves the
personification of the social systems in ‘perception’. Researches
which seek to investigate the ideology of the Raj and nationalism
are invited along with researches on communities, movements and
localities which transcend the ‘colonizer’ and ‘colonized’ binary.
- ‘Perception’ and resistance: Apart from being an instrument of
control, ‘perception’ may also be seen as a strategy in order to
resist control. Researches may look at various social movements,
leaders, communities which have resisted and shaped public memory by
introducing alternative ‘perception(s)’ spanning from pre-colonial
to colonial India.
Since this is the inaugural edition of the quarterly journal, papers
will also be accepted which look at the position of perception in
various disciplines of knowledge and schools of thought like
Positivism, Post-modernism, Marxism, Phenomenology, Humanism,
Nihilism, Existentialism etc.
Submission Format: The researches are requested to send in their
abstracts in times new roman, size 12 and spaced 1.5. Scholars are
requested to keep their abstracts below 500 words.
Please send your abstracts of maximum 500 words at
contact.ipsde...@gmail.com by November 15th, 2017. For further
information, mail on the abovementioned email I.D. Selected abstracts
will be notified by the last week of December.
Contact:
Institute of Perception Studies
New Delhi, India
Email: contact.ipsde...@gmail.com
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