Lives & Letters Mailing: June 2019
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to another Lives & Letters Mailing. This month’s mailing contains information about:
1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
– From the Blog: Writing at a gallop!
– From the Blog: Translation and the differences it makes
– From the Blog: Lawfare
– From the Blog: Doing the business in starting to write
2. [FQS] 20(2) online
3. Call for Papers: “Mapping Black Women’s Lives”
4. CFP: Special of Symbolic Interaction on Hebert Blumer
5. African Women in Media 2019 Conference
6. Departures and Arrivals: Women, Mobility and Travel Writing (9/1/2019) Special Issue–Feminismo/s
7. Call for Papers: Sylvia Plath and Disabled Women’s Life-Writing as a Tool of Resistance (9/30/2019; 3/5-8/20120) NeMLA, Boston USA
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1. Whites Writing Whiteness: Project News
There are four new items of project news we would like to share:
From the Blog: Writing at a gallop!
An earlier blog discussed starting work – or rather not starting work – on a new article concerned with the 1840s business papers of Eastern Cape Settler business woman Harriet Townsend. Soon after writing this ‘I can’t write’ blog, suddenly it all fell into place! The article has almost written itself – but why and how? For some answers, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/writing-at-a-gallop/
From the Blog: Translation and the differences it makes
This blog is about returning to an earlier piece of writing, on letters in sociology, to edit it in the light of discussion with a translator/editor of the ‘Handbook on Letters’ it is due to appear in, to be published by Springer. The process involved has been interesting, for it has focused on ‘the intended sense’ rather than translation of what I have written in a narrow way. In particular, I have dealt with questions and queries from my editor/translator in an ongoing way about the sense I have intended to convey, with a German draft being re-drafted to accommodate my extended explanations. To read more on translation and sense, please visit the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/translation-and-the-differences-it-makes/
From the Blog: Lawfare
Some exceptionally interesting books on contemporary South Africa have been published recently. Gangster State by Pieter-Louis Myberg (2019) has become the best-known, because of the fierce backlash against its evidence and arguments. But perhaps even more incendiary is an on the surface quieter book by two senior figures in South Africa’s legal profession, Michelle Le Doux and Dennis Davis (2019). This is concerned with what has become known as ‘lawfare’, a phenomenon occurring more widely than South Africa alone but taking a distinctive shape there. So what is the overall argument of Lawfare and why is its analysis so important? Find out by visiting the blog: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/lawfare/
From the Blog: Doing the business in starting to write
Settler women – the cohort who arrived in South Africa in the British mass migration of 1820 – are often either ignored or else portrayed as fearful, farm-based women who were economically dependent on their fathers and husbands. There are many exceptions, however, and a working paper has appeared on the WWW website concerned with the remaining papers of Harriet Townsend, whose business progenitors were her mother and women in her mother’s family and also her husband’s family. But what aspects of these materials to write about, without repeating what is in the working paper? To read more on the ’how to write’ problem, go to: https://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.ed.ac.uk/blog/doing-the-business-in-starting-to-write/
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2. [FQS] 20(2) online
Dear All,
we would like to inform you that FQS 20(2) is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/64 for the current issue and http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for former issues).
Part of FQS 20(2) is “Harold Garfinkel’s ‘Studies in Ethnomethodology’. An Interview Issue,” containing interviews with Joerg Bergmann & Christian Meyer, Charles Goodwin, Eric Laurier, Michael Lynch, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Juergen Streeck, Lucy Suchman and Stephan Wolff, and edited by Dominik Gerst, Hannes Kraemer & Rene Salomon. Additionally, a collection of single contributions as well as articles belonging to FQS Reviews and FQS Conferences are included in FQS 20(2).
All in all, 59 authors from 8 countries contributed to FQS 20(2).
FQS 20(2)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/64
—> Thematic Section: Harold Garfinkel’s “Studies in Ethnomethodology”. An Interview Issue
Dominik Gerst, Hannes Kraemer, Rene Salomon (Germany): Harold Garfinkel’s “Studies in Ethnomethodology” — An Interview Project
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3288
Joerg R. Bergmann, Christian Meyer, Rene Salomon, Hannes Kraemer (Germany): To Follow Garfinkel Means to Turn Sociology From Its Head to Its Toes. Joerg Bergmann & Christian Meyer in Conversation With Rene Salomon & Hannes Kraemer
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3289
Charles Goodwin (USA), Rene Salomon (Germany): Not Being Bound by What You Can See Now. Charles Goodwin in Conversation with Rene Salomon
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3271
Karin Knorr Cetina (USA), Hannes Kraemer, Rene Salomon (Germany): Encircling Ethnomethodology. Karin Knorr-Cetina in Conversation with Hannes Kraemer & Rene Salomon
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3287
Eric Laurier (UK), Hannes Kraemer, Dominik Gerst, Rene Salomon (Germany): The “Studies in Ethnomethodology” Are a Way of Understanding and Handling Empirical Materials and Thoughts. Eric Laurier in Conversation With Hannes Kraemer, Dominik Gerst & Rene Salomon
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3253
Michael Lynch (USA), Dominik Gerst, Hannes Kraemer, Rene Salomon (Germany): “The Studies are Probably the Best Thing That Garfinkel Ever Wrote.” Michael Lynch in Conversation With Dominik Gerst, Hannes Kraemer & Rene Salomon
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3251
Juergen Streeck, Hannes Kraemer, Rene Salomon (Germany): Betwixt and Between Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology. Juergen Streeck in Conversation With Hannes Kraemer & Rene Salomon
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3269
Lucy Suchman (UK), Dominik Gerst, Hannes Kraemer (Germany): “If You Want to Understand the Big Issues, You Need to Understand the Everyday Practices That Constitute Them.” Lucy Suchman in Conversation With Dominik Gerst & Hannes Kraemer
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3252
Stephan Wolff, Rene Salomon (Germany): “When God Gives You Two Tenths of a Second and the ‘Mhm,’ Then You Can Change the World.” Stephan Wolff in Conversation With Rene Salomon
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3285
—> Single Contributions
Meagan Call-Cummings, Barbara Dennis (USA): Participation as Entangled Self Assertion
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3203
Karen Geipel (Germany): Discourse and Subjectivation Theory Meet Group Discussions: Methodological Considerations for a New Connection
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3195
Cornelia Geukes (Germany): Health Literacy and the Construction of Health and Disease from the Perspective of Older People With Intellectual Disabilities
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3001
Evan Victor Goldstein (USA): A Qualitative Synthesis of the Effects of Rising Cost-Sharing Requirements in the United States
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3082
Diana L. Gustafson, Janice E. Parsons, Brenda Gillingham (Canada): Writing to Transgress: Knowledge Production in Feminist Participatory Action Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3164
Martina Koch, Esteban Pineiro, Nathalie Pasche (Switzerland): “We Are a Service, Not an Authority”: Multiple Institutional Logics in a Swiss Youth Welfare Office. An Ethnographic Case Study From Street-Level Bureaucracy
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3045
Tanya Langtree, Melanie Birks, Narelle Biedermann (Australia): Separating “Fact” from Fiction: Strategies to Improve Rigour in Historical Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3196
Grit Laudel, Jana Bielick (Germany): Practical Problems of Archiving Semi-Structured Interviews
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3077
Olga V. Lehmann (Norway), Kyoko Murakami (UK), Sven Hroar Klempe (Norway): A Qualitative Research Method to Explore Meaning-Making Processes in Cultural Psychology
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3190
Lillan Sally Lommel (UK), Margrit Schreier, Jakob Fruchtmann (Germany): We Strike, Therefore We Are? A Twitter Analysis of Feminist Identity in the Context of #DayWithoutAWoman
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3229
Javier Mignone, Robert M. Chase, Kerstin Roger (Canada): A Graphic and Tactile Data Elicitation Tool for Qualitative Research: The Life Story Board
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3136
Ursula Offenberger (Germany): Anselm Strauss, Adele Clarke and the Feminist Gretchen Question: On the Relationship Between Grounded Theory Methodology and Situational Analysis
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.2997
Robert Schmidt, Basil Wiesse (Germany): Online Participant Videos: A New Type of Data for Interpretative Social Research?
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3187
Mark Weisshaupt, Elke Hildebrandt, Tobias Leonhard (Switzerland): When the Teacher Comes to Play: Influencing Children’s Role-Playing as a Social Practice in Kindergarten
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3055
Mark Wyatt, Roger Nunn (United Arab Emirates): Tracing the Growth of a Community of Practice Centered on Holistic Project-Based Learning in Communication at an Engineering University in the United Arab Emirates: Insights From a Socially-Situated Teacher Cognition Perspective
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3170
—> FQS Reviews
Raimund Harloff (Germany): Review: Rudolf Schmitt, Julia Schroeder & Larissa Pfaller (2018). Systematische Metaphernanalyse. Eine Einfuehrung [Systematic Metaphor Analysis. An Introduction]
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3296
Sylvie Johner-Kobi (Switzerland): Review Essay: Classical Studies as a Starting Point. A Comprehensive and Easy-to-Understand Introduction to Selected Qualitative Research Approaches
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3295
Nora Mariella Kuettel (Germany): Review: Monika Streule (2018). Ethnografie urbaner Territorien. Metropolitane Urbanisierungsprozesse von Mexiko-Stadt [Ethnography of Urban Territories: Metropolitan Urbanization Processes in Mexico-City]
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3266
—> FQS Conferences
Jenny Fennessy, Sandie Woods, Helen Johnson, Carol Rivas, David Norbury, Isilda Almeida-Harvey, Jessica Moriarty, Katherine Wimpenny, Kerensa Bushell, Polly Blake (UK): Conference Report: Carnival of Invention
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3260
Sandra Lang, Daniela Seibert (Switzerland): Conference Report: 7th “QualiZueri” Networking Day for Qualitative Researchers
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3240
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3. Call for Papers: “Mapping Black Women’s Lives”
Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
36.2 Spring 2021
www.tandfonline.com/raut
Submissions Deadline: December 1, 2019
For this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, we seek papers that employ diverse and/or interdisciplinary methodologies to recover and situate (geographically and theoretically) Black female lives throughout the African diaspora. How do we write with and against archival silences and violences? What role does digitization play in making visible or further marginalizing Black women’s life writing? We are particularly interested in scholarly efforts that redefine, transform, or reform the spaces and places in which Black women’s cultural contributions were recorded (or not). Where and how do we map the lives of Black women? Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Cartography, maps, mapping, and journeys in Black women’s life narrative
- Forced displacements
- Dangerous moves
- Middle passages as trans-historical consciousness
- Relationships between faith systems, movement and racialized geographies
- Examining Diaspora through Life Writing
- Travel to and through archives
- How geography shapes who and what we recover
- Global perspectives on mapping Black women’s lives
- Methodologies for locating and mapping Black women’s lives
- Pedagogical approaches to mapping Black women’s lives and/or reading journeys in Black women’s life narratives
- Autotheoretical approaches to mapping and/or studying Black women’s lives in transit
Send original articles of 6000-7000 words (including works cited and notes), including keywords, an abstract, and a brief biographical statement to Kimberly Blockett (kdb13@psu.edu). We welcome essays that include images and are able to print in color without author fees. a/b also publishes ancillary digital and multimedia texts on the journal’s Routledge website. Inquiries welcome.
All essays must follow the format of Chicago Manuel of Style (17th edition). Essays submitted for the special issue, but not selected, may be considered general submissions and may be selected for publication. In order to ensure a confidential peer review, remove any identifying information, including citations that refer to you as the author in the first person. Cite previous publications, etc. with your last name to preserve your anonymity in the reading process. Include your name, address, email, the title of your essay, and your affiliation in a cover letter or cover sheet for your essay. It is the author’s responsibility to secure any necessary copyright permissions and essays may not progress into the publication stage without written proof of right to reprint. Images with captions must be submitted in a separate file as 300 dpi (or higher) tiff files with captions. Please indicate placement of images in the text.
Guest Editor, Kimberly Blockett, Associate Professor of English at Penn State Brandywine, is a C19 literary historian. She uses archives and cultural geography to examine black female movement and subjectivity. Blockett’s publications include MELUS, Legacy, MLA Approaches to Teaching Hurston, and the Cambridge History of African American Literature. The archival work for her forthcoming monograph and annotated edition of Zilpha Elaw’s Memoirs was funded by fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Smithsonian, NEH, and Harvard Divinity School.
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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4. CFP: Special of Symbolic Interaction on Hebert Blumer
Symbolic Interaction
Special Issue Call For Papers Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden (Eds.)
Celebrating and Interrogating the Blumerian Legacy
Deadline to Submit Papers: September 30, 2019
As we mark the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Blumer’s (1969) pivotal work Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method, it is timely to address debates and critical claims central to the status and future of Blumerian interactionism with a special issue of Symbolic Interaction. We envision a mix of papers which both commemorate and critically assess Blumer himself, or Blumerian theory and methodology, as well as substantive papers that add to, or provide a corrective for, Blumerian interactionism.
Among the debates worthy of reassessment is Prus’ (1996:75) assertion, that Blumer “deserves … to be acknowledged as the single most important social theorist of the twentieth century” and Maines’ (2001) claim that symbolic interactionism is at risk of being subsumed by those who do not acknowledge the perspective while still using its concepts and practices.
Ripe for debate as well is Abbott’s (1997) argument that Blumer’s emphasis on the symbolic, intersubjective side of the Chicago approach led him to underappreciate the importance of time, space and context. Similarly, papers might address the Iowa School (Couch 1986); Stryker’s (1980), and other’s claims that Blumerian interactionism is astructural, or Best’s (2006:5) conclusion that Blumer is a “tragic figure” who excelled at criticism and theory but conducted weak empirical research.
Papers might also address whether Blumer was the progenitor of an active and ongoing scholarly tradition that continues to grow theoretically and methodologically. Is the perspective thriving in some ways? Or has symbolic interactionism been reduced to the formulaic application of a set of standardized theoretical and methodological practices? Do interactionists still suffer from “analytic interruptus,” the failure of research to lead to fully developed concepts and theories (Lofland 1970:42-43)? In particular, we invite papers for this special issue on the following topics:
- Intellectual biographies of Blumer
- Blumer’s impact on symbolic interactionist theory
- Blumer’s contribution to symbolic interactionist methodology
- Sensitizing concepts
- Generic social processes
- “Formal” sociology
- The charge against Blumerian interactionism of astructural bias
- The current status of the Blumerian legacy for sociology as a whole
- The future of Blumerian interactionism
- Substantive research that extends or corrects Blumerian interactionism
- The integrating of other theoretical approaches into the Blumerian tradition
- Other related topics proposed by authors
Please submit all papers through the journal’s online portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/si
Cover letters should mention that the submission is intended for the special issue commemorating the anniversary of Blumer’s (1969) book. For more information, contact the special issue editors Jacqueline Low at jlow@unb.ca and Gary Bowden at glb@unb.ca, or the editor-in-chief at Scott.Harris@slu.edu.
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5. African Women in Media 2019 Conference
in partnership with African Union Commission
25 – 27 July 2019
University of Nairobi Towers, Kenya
As we enter the final year of the African Women Decade (2010-2020), AWiM19 brings together over 100 speakers from industry and academia, who are experts in a range of media industries from journalism, communications, and film, to gender studies, Blockchain and much more.
Our 2019 theme is SHOWCASE, and as you will see from the segment themes in our schedule, AWiM19 aims to tackle urgent issues facing women in media, and media in Africa more widely. Our objectives are inline with the African Union’s Agenda 2063 Aspirations 3 & 6, and United Nations SDGs 5 & 10, and the issues we aim to tackle were identified in the findings of the Strengthening Kenyan Media Report.
Keynote speakers:
Lola Omolola, Founder, Female In (FIN)
Dr Dorothy Njoroge, Chair, Association of Media Women Kenya
Biola Alabi, Managing Director, Biola Alabi Media
Click here for our full programme, registration, speakers list and much more: https://awim19.africanwomeninmedia.com
African Women in the Media (AWiM) was started in 2016, with the mission to impact positively the way media functions in relation to women. AWiM conferences are designed around our three Pillars of: Knowledge Transfer between Industry and Academia, Economic Empowerment of Women, and Visibility. awim19.africanwomeninmedia.com
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6. Departures and Arrivals: Women, Mobility and Travel Writing (9/1/2019) Special Issue–Feminismo/s
Feminismo/s, from the Institute of Research in Gender Studies from the University of Alicante, is currently accepting submissions for its 36 issue, entitled “Departures and Arrivals: Women, Mobility and Travel Writing”. This issue seeks to approach women travel writing from a transhistorical and transnational perspective. Thus, we encourage submissions that deal with travelling and mobility in women’s writing from different cultural and national backgrounds and periods.
We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the intersections between gender, mobility and identity, including, but not restricted to the following aspects:
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- Religious or spiritual pilgrimages.
- Transatlantic and transnational experiences.
- Exploratory journeys and pioneering experiences.
- Sea narratives, air narratives, railway experiences and road trip experiences.
- Travelling in/to/from war zones.
- Diasporic experiences.
- Enforced migration and refugee experiences.
- Uprootedness and in-between identities.
- Ecocritical approaches to travelling.
- Tourism and neo-colonial experiences of travelling.
- Travelling and the cyber-world.
- Mobility and ableism.
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Submitted abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length, and should be sent to the issue co-editors by no later than 1 September 2019. Please also include an additional biographical statement, of no more than 100 words, that lists your educational level, current academic affiliation, previous publications and any other details you may feel are pertinent.
Applicants can expect to hear back about their proposals by 1 October 2019. Full articles (9,000 words) will be due by 1 February 2020. Notifications about acceptance or required changes will be provided in July 2020, and final articles will be required on 1 September 2020. Contributors must follow the journal’s editorial guidelines and style.
Should you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact the issue co-editors, Sara Prieto (sara.prieto@ua.es) and Raquel García-Cuevas (r.c.garcia@kent.ac.uk).
Feminismo/sis an Open Acces Journal and is indexed in the following databases: Proquest (Gender Watch), DOAJ, REDIB, InDICEs-CSIC, ERIH PLUS, MLA, CIRC, MlAR, Latindex, Dialnet, Ulrich’s, Dulcinea, Google Scholar, SHERPA/RoMEO, RUA, DICE, REBIUN, RESH, OCLC WorldCat, Copac, SUDOC and ZDB/EZB.
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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7. Call for Papers: Sylvia Plath and Disabled Women’s Life-Writing as a Tool of Resistance (9/30/2019; 3/5-8/20120) NeMLA, Boston USA
This panel is part of the Northeast Modern Language Association conference being held in Boston, MA, from March 5-8th, 2020.
Abstract: At the end of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, the speaker calls for a disabled feminist future, as she has “a self to recover, a queen.” Largely ignored by disability studies scholars, this panel will explore how Sylvia Plath’s works call for a reclaiming of disabled women’s voices and community. From The Bell Jar to Ariel, Plath’s writing has enabled a canon of literary works that describe the workings of patriarchal institutions, such as the asylum, and how these institutions affect disabled women’s bodies. Through writing, Plath has created a space where disabled women are able to own and control their voices and stories, which can be seen in the production of disabled women’s life-writing such as Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted and Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind. This panel seeks presentations that explore the nature of disabled women’s writing and how Plath has enabled a disabled feminist future through her works.
Description: This panel will explore how Sylvia Plath’s works have enabled a disabled feminist future through creating a space where disabled women are invited to write about and control their own narratives. What is the importance of reading Plath’s body of work as a facilitation of disabled women’s life-writing? How can life-writing empower the voices of disabled women?
Please submit a 250-word abstract to Maria Rovito at mrr354@psu.edu by September 30th, 2019.
International Auto/Biography Association Worldwide
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/iaba/home
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Last updated: 28 June 2018
