Call for Chapters: Performativity and the Representation of Memory: Resignification, Appropriation, and Embodiment

Editors

Frederico Dinis, Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: November 26, 2023
Full Chapters Due: March 10, 2024
Submission Date: March 10, 2024

Introduction

The work of memory has been the object of inquiry by scholars who seek to understand how we process our experience and how we perceive its role in the configuration of individual and collective identities. Concepts of collective memory, memory theatres, memory-habit, places of memory, incorporated memory, post-memory, memory linked to places and memory re-enactment have helped to describe complex relations between past and present. "Images from the past” or “knowledge remembered from the past” in some way contribute to the objectification of culture as a 'natural' entity, made up of material evidence, traces, and marks. In these circumstances, whenever individuals and communities conceive of something as being part of “their culture” or certain aspects of their lives with “cultural” properties, this recognition is largely due to the production of discourses; these have diverse origins and are not always critically scrutinized, being then transformed or reappropriated by the communities.

Objective

This book aims to explore contemporary practices that confront memory, history, heritage and art with a “repertoire in intermedial mode”. Assuming that memory is a continuous performative act, the role of memory in contemporary creation by discussing (i) the process of creation and its relationship to memory work, (ii) memory as a territory under construction (codes, mediums, texts, sounds, images, and narratives) through research and (iii) the politics of memory in today's societies and new forms of creation. Countless examples of these processes are known, both in the Europe of nations and identities, as well as in the manipulation of the public space that emerges in globalized intercultural societies. Society and the individual are therefore confronted with the politics of memory and with the problem of control, ownership, and transmission of memory. What specifically distinguishes contemporary digital culture, in its relationship with heritage and the construction of memory, is the way it exposes grammar, mediations, and the processes of construction of meaning.

Target Audience

Thinking about the practices of the social and artistic repertoire that define the contemporary intermediate regime puts at stake the supports (techniques and technological devices), the modes of signification, the power relations, the economic and social asymmetries, the modes of transmission and accessibility, as well as the current dynamics of appropriation, adaptation, and recycling, affecting the general public, professionals and scientific community, policymakers and stakeholders.

Recommended Topics

- Shared memory of experiences and knowledge; - Participatory research and practice as testimony of (the) memory; - Community generated memory and political identity(ies); - Arts-based research; - Processes of re-creation/re-contextualization; - Identity, narrative(s) and memory sharing; - Artificial and digital memory; - From “stock memory” to “flux memory”; - Memory and the irruption of the Real.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 26, 2023, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by December 10, 2023 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 10, 2024, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Performativity and the Representation of Memory: Resignification, Appropriation, and Embodiment. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.



Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2025.



Important Dates

November 26, 2023: Proposal Submission Deadline
December 10, 2023: Notification of Acceptance
March 10, 2024: Full Chapter Submission
May 12, 2024: Review Results Returned
June 23, 2024: Final Acceptance Notification
July 7, 2024: Final Chapter Submission



Inquiries

Frederico Dinis, Research Institute in Design, Media & Culture [ID+], f.dinis@sapo.pt



Classifications


Education; Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences; Media and Communications; Social Sciences and Humanities; Science and Engineering
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