Call for Papers
Edited Collection: Rethinking Globalization and Spatial Scale
We are seeking articles for an edited collection titledRethinking Globalization and Spatial Scale. The goal of the volume is to bring together interdisciplinary research on globalization spanning the humanities and social sciences that foregrounds theoretical and methodological conceptualizations of scale-how people, capital, goods, material infrastructure, ideas, and power aggregate along or slide among different degrees or levels of attachment, from personal to local to national to transnational.
We are assembling essays that reconnect the seemingly different registers of scale to reconsider how scholars use scale to understand the operations of power and to retheorize the primary conceptual categories of historical and modern life (such as those central binaries of local and global, center and periphery, west and non-west). We expect the edited collection to extend beyond the recent spatial and transnational turn in the academy by focusing on scale as a material indicator of, and active agent in, the constitution of the world.
The interdisciplinary range of the collection will be broad; we currently have commitments from prominent scholars in literary studies, history, communications, and geography. Several university and trade publishers have expressed early and very strong interest in the project.
Please send a brief CV and a 500-word abstract toglobalspatialscale.collection@
Co-editors: James Mulholland, Rebecca Walsh, and Steve Wiley
James Mulholland is an assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University specializing in eighteenth-century British literature and empire. He has published Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820(Johns Hopkins, 2013). His next project is calledLiterary Calcutta: Transregional Networks of a Colonial City.
Rebecca Walsh is an assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University focusing on transatlantic and transnational modernisms. She has published Geopoetics of Modernism (University of Florida Press, 2015), which examines the connections between literary modernism and academic and middlebrow geography in a global context, and is at work on a new monograph on the transnational networks of African-American and Indian resistance movements.
Steve Wiley is an associate professor of communication at North Carolina State Universitywhose ethnographic research focuses media technologies, globalization, and sense of place. His work has appeared in Communication Theory, Cultural Studies, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He is the co-editor, with Jeremy Packer, of Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks (Routledge, 2013).