Call for Papers
Guest Eds. Domenech, M., Schillmeier, M.
Thinking about care practices entails a reflection concerning practices of space. Heidegger’s notion of ‘dwelling as caring’ addresses this relationship. In this vein we are interested in rethinking the concepts and practices of care in contemporary societies. This special issue focuses on new forms of spatialization in and through which care is performed, questioned and altered. Emerging forms of spatialization, we suggest, visualize care as an art of dwelling that constantly relates humans and non-humans. Care as an art of dwelling, then, enacts being-at-home by re-assembling bodies, emotions, technologies and places in highly specific and complex ways.
Space and Culture invites submissions of papers for a special issue devoted to an exploration of the above topic. Contributions drawing on all fields of the cultural and the social sciences, medical sociology, disability studies and STS are welcome focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on issues such as:
- Blurring of boundaries between home and institutional care (the institutionalization of the house and the domestication of the hospital)
- Dwelling with technology: Care technologies and their spatialities (telecare, telemedicine, constant care, etc)
- Care spaces and embodiment
- Spaces of control/freedom and surveillance
- Fixed and dynamic spaces of care: Mobility and immobility
- Spaces of in/dependence, autonomy and vulnerability
- Spaces of safety, security and risk.
- Emotional work and spaces of intimacy
- Feeling at home and the sense of place
Abstracts due: May 15, 2008
Manuscripts due: September 15, 2008
All information and communications concerning submissions should be addressed to: space@ntu.ac.uk Joost van Loon, Editor and Professor of Media Analysis, Institute for Cultural Analysis, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS United Kingdom.
- Rob