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Call for Publications Theme: African Somaesthetics Subtitle: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics Publication: Edited Volume by Catherine F. Botha Date: Deadline: 1.6.2018 __________________________________________________ The editors of Brill’s Studies in Somaesthetics series invite submissions on the topic "African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics" for a forthcoming edited collection. The growing interest in the study of the body over the past few decades, inspired largely by Michel Foucault’s work in the 1970s, has acquired a novel dimension in Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics. Shusterman emphasizes, to a much greater degree than other contemporary pragmatists, the importance of corporality for the understanding of human existence. In addition, Shusterman’s focus on social practice and political experimentation, as well as his emphasis on an understanding of truth as relative to specific social contexts and practices make somaesthetics a fertile and rewarding area of research. Somaesthetics has attracted considerable attention in contemporary literature. However, the majority of these publications have focused on analyses of the body in Western (and to some extent, Eastern) cultures. The current volume, entitled "African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics", brings together original research on the body in African cultures, specifically interrogating the possibilities of the contribution of a somaesthetic approach in the context of colonization, decolonization, and globalization in Africa. The proposed volume will include contributions that are focused on three main areas: African cultures, African feminisms, and African politics. The use of the plural when referring to the three sections of the volume (cultures, feminisms, politics) is deliberate. There is not one monolithic African culture, feminism or politics, and it is envisaged that the contributions in this volume will reflect this diversity of perspectives and positions in their consideration of the somaesthetic dimensions of experience in the context of Africa. We invite papers that address these questions from the perspectives of the visual arts, literature, urbanism, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Information about the series 'Brill Studies in Somaesthetics' aims to publish monographs and anthologies of new research in the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. The field can be briefly defined as the critical study and meliorative cultivation of the soma as our medium of perceptual appreciation (aesthesis) and performance but also as the site of our expressive self-fashioning. Somaesthetics is, therefore, concerned with a wide diversity of knowledge forms, discourses, social practices and institutions, cultural traditions and values, and bodily disciplines that structure (or could improve) such somatic understanding and cultivation. It is not limited to one theoretical field, academic or professional vocabulary, cultural ideology, or particular set of bodily disciplines. Rather it aims to provide a more fruitful interaction and integration of the very diverse forms of somatic knowledge currently being practiced and pursued. The first book in the series is Aesthetic Experience and somaesthetics: http://www.brill.com/products/book/aesthetic-experience-and-somaesthetics Information about abstract and paper submissions Authors should submit a separate cover page indicating: author’s name, institutional affiliation, paper title, abstract of 250 words, word count, keywords, and contact information. Abstracts due June 1, 2018. Papers should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words and prepared for blind review. They should also be prepared according to the publisher’s style guidelines as indicated on the Brill website: http://www.brill.com/resources/authors/publishing-books-brill/edited-volumes Final papers due December 31, 2018. All submissions should be sent to: [email protected] Please put “Studies in Somaesthetics Submission: African Somaesthetics” in the subject line. Contact: Prof Catherine F. Botha, Head Department of Philosophy University of Johannesburg PO Box 524 Auckland Park, 2006 South Africa Tel: +27 11 5593403 Email: [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
