Call for Publications: Book on (De) fining Paradoxes: The Writings from North East India-ISBN Number

Call For Research Articles

With the dominant depiction of terror, fear, insurgency and identity crisis, Northeastern literature ruminates over the panorama of feelings of estrangement and marginalization of the people. But beneath this veneer lies the aboriginal treatment of its folklore, natural scenic beauty and mythology tinged with animistic tradition of the region. The writings of the emerging writers like Robin Ngangom, Mitra Phukan, Mamang Dai, Temsula Ao attempt to homogenize the feelings and culture of the people of this region which primarily appears to be heterogeneous in nature.

The recent writings of the region encapsulate a landscape of numbing turmoil, political misunderstanding, and unrelenting government apathy coupled with the enigma of the dysphoria of their existence. Literature from the North-East is the outcome of the mindscape which harbours contrary feelings and notions, natural scenic beauty, age-old traditions along with the challenges emerged from the implementation of government policies and their impetus to the creative zeal of the young minds.

These writings bear ideas of an outcry of identity being strangulated coupled with the crisis of being born to a land made alien. Overpowering such tales of agony, these writings resonate with the music and rhythm of its exotic, strange yet unique culture. Indeed, these writings are the confluence of the vibrant odour of refreshing scenic beauty and the charm of mythical allusions abounding in the aura of their primeval psyche. The literature from the North-east emerges as interplay of a fine synthesis between the harsh realities of the duality of their existence and the rhythm of the simplicity of the raw folk culture, which it exhibits. However, such tales of frenzy merge with the divinity of their natural settings as if to compensate for the rising smog of violence and disturbances, submerging it within the spectrum of its mystifying embrace.

The literature of the North-east palpitates with the venomous expression of the people, who feel rejected, harassed and subjugated in the hands of their own countrymen. Almost like a victim of the imperialist order, the reluctance of the Main-land Indians to cope with their (north-easterners) exotic differences as natural in a multi-cultural situation have emanated sparks of violence and accentuated the duality of their existence. Any North-easterner would sarcastically consider this to be a hiccup in the process of the most bragged, vaunted and illusory ideas of national integration. Easterine Iralu, a Naga poet and author of great repute, harangues “Let media stop defining the North East by the conflicts going on there. Let media focus on ordinary people and their life. Let exorticisation of North East stop”. These lines echo the intermediate state of a North-Easterner as they plunge into the gloom of being a part of a state of limbo where the stigma of the “other” has become their destiny.

The dominant cultural discourses have defined the North-easterner as primitive. But the question which every North-easterner would vouch on is why there is a necessity to blend
into the standards of a particular framework and transform themselves to legitimize their Indian identity. A North-easterner seems to hopelessly pine for a tryst with destiny and not become what Franz Fanon said, “The black soul is a white man’s artifact”. Divided between the threshold of this state of limbo, utter disillusionment and culturally rich, diversified tradition, they release lines with layered meanings and consciousness.

In order to perfectly capture the tumultuous dynamics, beautifully woven in their writings,insightful, unpublished research oriented papers are invited for publication in an edited volume with an ISBN. Guidelines for the submission of paper are as follows:

I. Only electronic submission via email will be accepted for publication.
II. File must be in Microsoft Word format (Preferably Word 2016)
III. Paper size: A4. Font and Size: Times New Roman 12, the title must be in 14 point size, bold.
IV. Text of the paper : Justified
V. Spacing: One and half margin: 1 inch in all four sides.
VI. Word limit: 3500 to 4500 words including work cited / bibliography.
VII. Abstract: Not more than 250 words.
VIII. Keywords: 5 to 8.
IX. The authors must strictly follow MLA 7th edition in their papers.
X. Each manuscript must bear a self-declaration signifying its originality and that it has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere.
XI. A brief-bio note of 150 words of the respective authors (name, postal address,designation, affiliation, specialization, mail id, contact no. etc.) should be attached towards the end of the paper.
XII. Manuscript must be written in English.

The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing to the unexplored vistas of innovative learning tempered with critical analysis.

Selection ProcedureAll submissions will be sent for blind peer reviewing. Final selection will be made only if the papers are approved by the referees. The details of the selection of your paper will be intimated to you telephonically or on your email. All contributors are counseled to keep a copy of their submission with them. Each contributor will get a free complimentary copy from editors.

Plagiarism AlertContributors are advised to abide by the austere academic ethics with respect to acknowledgement of original ideas from others. It will be the writers’ lone accountability for the lapse in originality. Neither editors nor publishers will be responsible for it.
The order of the content must be as per the following sequence:
1. Title page with the authors name and institutional details
2. Abstract
3. Keywords
4. Main body of the text
5. Works cited
6. Declaration and Bio note

The last date of submission: 25thMay, 2018
Acceptance or rejection of the paper will be intimated after a blindfold review within a month.
Authors are requested to submit their paper to: northeastwritings@gmail.com

Editors:

Dhananjay Tripathi	Janmejay Kumar Tiwari
PhD, NET,	PhD, NET,
Assistant Professor	Lecturer Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences	Directorate of Education
National Institute of Technology Sikkim	Government of NCT, Delhi

Contact no.+918759136879 Contact no:+918586848190

Call for Publication: Special Issue on "Political Genealogy after Foucault"

Dear Colleagues,

Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue on the theme, “Political Genealogy After Foucault.” Inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, this issue invites essays from scholars employing political genealogy as a methodology and model of theoretical inquiry representing a wide range of disciplines, from the social sciences to the humanities, from philosophy to geography to urban studies to cultural theory. The goal of this special issue is to publish some of the best and most current work in political genealogy, showing how this work invites us to rethink many of the key concepts in political theory as well as real ground-level political practice. Broadly conceived, the editorial team is interested in articles which demonstrate how political genealogy helps us to understand what Foucault calls “the history of our present,” while at the same time looking to our future, to what being a political subject will look like in a post-representational world.

Some of the topics that would be appropriate for this special issue include but are not limited to:

• How and in what ways political genealogy aims, in the words of Nikolas Rose, “to reshape and expand the terms of political debate, enabling different questions to be asked, enlarging the space of legitimate contestation.”
• Genealogies of cosmopolitanism and post-national identity.
• Counter-memory as an instrument of political freedom.
• Genealogy as a method for understanding the new world order (with respect to, for example, globalization, Trumpism, Brexit, neo-populism, the rise of terrorism).
• Re-thinking, through genealogy, the politics of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
• Genealogy and neo-liberalism; genealogy and corporatocracy.
• Genealogy in practice, with respect to, for example, how governmentality and its institutions affect the lives of real individuals.

Prof. Dr. Michael Clifford

Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Genealogy is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

• foucault
• political genealogy
• genealogical methods
• counter-memory
• governmentality
• political identity

• NOTE TO CONTRIBUTORS
• For the instruction for the authors, please visit the journal website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/instructions
• When your paper is ready, please submit it to the editorial office's online system via the following link (but you need to register on the MDPI website (http://www.mdpi.com/) first and then use the link):
  http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=genealogy

Deadlline: 1st June 2018

Contact Info: 

Anyone wants to submit Please contact Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Michael Clifford (mclifford@philrel.msstate.edu) Journal managing editor Ms. Allie Shi(genealogy@mdpi.com)

Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com

URL: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special_issues/After_Foucault

Call for papers – Studies in South Asian Film & Media (SAFM) Special Issue -- Hindutva Politics and South Asian Cinema–Media in the Age of Modi

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Since the start of Narendra Modi’s term as India’s prime minister, one witnesses a resurgence of the Hindu far right and Hindutva politics in India, as well as corresponding movements in Hindi cinema and media. From PK (2014) to the much anticipated, and delayed, Padma(a)vat(i) (2018), Bollywood and other forms of contemporary South Asian media have responded to the proliferation of right-wing Hindu ideologies in myriad, oftentimes contentious and frequently innovative ways. While the impact of such right-wing parties on Bollywood can be traced back to the release of Mani Ratnam’s Bombay (1995), this special issue seeks to examine the contemporary manifestations – and fraught interrelationships – of Hindutva politics and Hindi cinema and media during the time of Modi (2014 – present). We are particularly interested in examining the range of approaches taken towards Hindutva politics, whether it be the use of comedy or farce, as in PK, the melodramatic sentimentality of Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015), or the latest historical epics of Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Related to this theme is the subsequent rise of attacks, in person and via social media, upon directors and actors associated with such films, most notably, Bhansali and Deepika Padukone.

Hindutva cultural politics, however, are not limited to the theater screen or to contests over star personalities alone. Rather, we can see their manifestation in the blurring of boundaries between self and screen, self-representation and self-broadcast over social media. The most egregious elements of this are the ways in which perpetrators and bystanders record acts of violence in full daylight and broadcast them over social media. Its other, more everyday forms are Hindutva trolls and leaders holding forth on WhatsApp and other platforms, challenging the notion of news itself.

This special issue of Studies in South Asian Film & Media (SAFM) seeks papers addressing the representations of and reactions to Hindutva politics and ideologies in Hindi cinema and media during Modi’s tenure. Along with papers looking at the contemporary controversies surrounding Padma(a)vat(i), we welcome articles on the following topics:

• Genres, including comedy, horror, and the historical, that are being redefined to address Hindutva politics in India
• Contemporary representations of Indo-Pakistan relations
• The ‘fascist’ aesthetic of recent films, including Bajirao Mastani and Padma(a)vat(i), with regard to their cinematic excesses and glorifications of previous Hindu empires
• Hindutva politics in mainstream Indian television
• Hindutva trolls on social media
• Hindutva movements, boycotts and attacks against Hindi films, filmmakers and stars, including, e.g., Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Along with full-length essays exploring such topics, we are also interested in shorter, less formal pieces, including:

• Documentations of counter-movements working against the rise of Hindutva policies
• Interviews with Hindi filmmakers, television personalities and stars affected by Hindutva politics in recent years 
• Working notes by social media activists mobilizing against the contemporary rise of the Hindu far right in everyday life

If you are interested in submitting to this special issue of SAFM (10.1), due to appear in early 2019, please send a 300-500 word abstract to Ajay Gehlawat (gehlawat@sonoma.edu) by March 15, 2018. Please also include a brief bio with your abstract. 

Final drafts of accepted proposals will be due by July 15, 2018. Please see SAFM’s guidelines for further details regarding submitting and formatting, and feel free to email beforehand with any inquiries.

Contact Info: 

Ajay Gehlawat

Contact Email: gehlawat@sonoma.edu

URL: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=156/

Call for Publications on Violence and Postcolonial India-International Journal of Humanistic Ideology (Issue 2018)

Call For Publications:

India is famously known as a land where diversity of religions and cultures exist. Communal harmony is one of its founding principles as envisaged by various philosophers and sages like Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, etc. However, this inherent feature of India’s harmony has not only broken asunder repeatedly, but also heightened in the form of rampant violence. Violence has been a recurrent phenomenon both in the history of colonial and postcolonial India. In fact, as per the April 2017 Pew Research Center analysis of 198 countries, India occupied the fourth position for its religious intolerance. If colonial India witnessed the brutal onslaught of the Britishers, postcolonial India advances the cyclic pattern of violence, albeit in different mutations. The redrawing of boundary has concomitantly redefined a new enemy. The enemy is now within. The monumental period of India’s postcoloniality is marked by a constant struggle over who owns India and its soul. Communal violence now converges with state sponsored violence underpinned with caste, gender, and regional identity. It creates a culture of violence which spews, encourages, and sustains new binaries and everyday confrontation.

Guest Editor: Om Prakash Dwivedi, Auro University, India

The forthcoming special issue of International Journal of Humanistic Ideology (a peer-reviewed international journal, published by CLUJ University Press, Romania) will be titled, “Violence and Postcolonial India”. The special number seeks to respond to this moment of crisis plaguing postcolonial India and the various ways in which violence can be reimagined by addressing the following issues: 

• Violence and ethics 
• Humanism and violence 
• Resistance or Violence? 
• Gendered violence 
• Partition violence 
• Linguistic violence 
• Capital violence 
• Old and new colonialism 
• Political violence 
• Violence in the digital realm 

Please email your abstracts at the address mentioned below. Abstracts should not be more than 500 words. Acceptance letter would be sent out by 10th March, 2018. 

The word limit of complete articles should be between 4000-6000 words. Final publication of articles is subject to successful peer-review process.

Deadline for abstract submissions: 05th March, 2018.

Deadline for article submissions: 31st July, 2018.

Please send your inquires to om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com

Contact Email: om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com.

Call For Publications with ISBN :Anthology of Critical Essays in Performance Studies

CONCEPT NOTE

The pre-colonial performance traditions in India comprised of the Sanskrit ‘natya’ and various ‘folk’ performances. Now, the word ‘theatre’ precisely refers to the kind of naturalistic proscenium performance of a play ‘imported’ into India by the British colonizers. This form influenced and was imitated by native playwrights and directors. However, in the post-Independence era we see a conscious effort among many important playwrights/directors to break away from the conventions of this ‘imported’ form and trying to construct new performance idioms. Perhaps a post-colonial consciousness triggered the varied and interesting experiments in form and content, acting and production of plays in post-1947 India. Often, a tendency to reconnect with the pre-colonial past is also apparent. Having said this, there however is no iota of doubt that the playwrights were ultimately concerned with contemporary realities of modern free India.

Keeping in mind the above context, the book will be an anthology of critical essays in the field of performance studies, analysing major plays and/or overall work of the following playwrights/directors of post-1947 modern Indian theatre: Asif Currimbhoy, Habib Tanvir, Mahesh Dattani, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Dharamveer Bharati, Mohan Rakesh, Badal Sircar and Mahesh Elkunchwar, Ratan Thiyam, Haisnam Kanhailal. The aim is to get an in-depth understanding of ideology, theory and praxis of each playwright/director in the theatre.

Abstracts with title of the paper and within 500 words along with Author’s information (including name, designation, institutional affiliation, address for communication, E-mail and contact number) and a brief bio-note stating academic achievements, areas of interest, important publications etc.may be sent through E-mail to debayandebbarman@gmail.com . 

The authors of the selected abstracts will be informed individually through E-mail acceptance letter after which they can send in the full papers.

Important dates are given below:

Last date for submission of Abstract is 1st March 2018.

Last date of intimation of acceptance of Abstract: 10th March, 2018.

Last date for submission of full papers: 10th April, 2018.

Full papers, that have to be original, previously unpublished in-depth research papers, will go through a double blind peer review process. Contributors of the full papers are requested to follow the MLA 7th edition style sheet, Times New Roman, 12 font and double space. Also, please use only References and Endnotes. Do not use Footnotes. An essay preferably may be of 3000 words at least. For photographs to be used as illustration, the author has to arrange prior permission from the concerned source/authority. 

The book will be jointly edited by Dr. Sushanta Bardhan, Associate Professor of English, Suri Vidyasagar College (University of Burdwan) and Dr. Debayan Deb Barman, Assistant Professor of English, THLH Mahavidyalay (University of Burdwan). It will be published with ISBN from a reputed international/national level publisher.