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Calls for Papers and Future issues

JOMEC Journal publishes themed, open and ‘rapid response’ issues.  We welcome proposals, full articles and informal enquiries. We also welcome enquiries and applications from anyone wishing to guest-edit a themed issue. Please contact Paul Bowman (BowmanP@cf.ac.uk) for discussion.

Call for Papers

Parochialism and Transnationalism: Cross-Border Translations

Some cultural and political issues stay local while others become more global. Some events, movements, fashions and figures become symbols and points of identification across borders, while others remain known only in precise geographical contexts. This issue of JOMEC, Parochialism and Transnationalism: Cross-Border Translations, asks: What factors influence the translation of cultural and political issues across linguistic, legal, cultural, technological and national borders? It invites contributions which engage this theme from theoretical and empirical perspectives, from any area of journalism, media or cultural studies, and from any of the many possible lines of approach to such a problematic, whether organised by translation, politics, legal studies, technology, geography, sociology, history, philosophy or cultural theory.

Submission guidelines:

Contact: Paul Bowman: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk

 

Special Issue - Martial Arts Studies

The editors of the recent collection of essays, Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge (SUNY, 2012), propose that there is an emergent academic field that they call martial arts studies. Martial Arts Studies, they propose, is distinct from traditional histories, sociologies and anthropological studies of martial arts, even though it involves these areas. This is not least because of the complexity of the contemporary media saturated world, in which images, discourses, knowledges and practices circulate transnationally.

This special themed issue of JOMEC Journal proposes that the field of martial arts studies must necessarily involve the study of film, media and global movements in popular culture, as much as the movements of history, peoples, and communities in terms of regional, national and ethnic cultures and practices.

The editor invites contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners which seek to advance the field of martial arts studies. Approaches from any disciplinary background will be considered, but preference will be given to works which engage with problematics in the fields of media and cultural studies.

Submission guidelines:

Issue Editor: Paul Bowman: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk

 

Forthcoming issues

Future issue themes: