CfP: Field as Archive / Archive as Field. International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)

Call for Papers: Field as Archive / Archive as Field. International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)

This special issue of the IJIA focuses on the experience of carrying out archival work or fieldwork in architectural research, including research-led practice. How might this experience, with all its contingencies and errancies, be made into the very stuff of the architectural histories, theories, criticisms and/or practices resulting from it? This question is rendered all the timelier due to recent and ongoing developments across the globe, not least in the geographies relevant to the IJIA’s remit.
As evident in the joint emphasis on fieldwork and archival work, these questions are methodologically animated by a convergence between two prominent venues of architectural research conventionally seen mutually discrete if not antipodal: field and archive. In fact, when considered spatially, both fields and archives have more in common than that which separates them.
Contributors should fully exploit the self-reflexive potential of the framework outlined in the call for papers by addressing the role of architecture and architectural research as not just the product of the various issues affecting archival work and fieldwork but also their instigator.
Articles offering historical and theoretical analysis (DiT papers) should be between 6000 and 8000 words, and those on design and practice (DiP papers) between 3000 and 4000 words. Practitioners are welcome to contribute insofar as they address the critical framework of the journal. Urbanists, art historians, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, and historians, whose work resonates with architecture are also welcome. Please send a title and a 400-word abstract to the guest editor, Eray Çaylı, London School of Economics and Political Science (e.cayli@lse.ac.uk), by 30 July 2018. Authors of accepted proposals will be contacted soon thereafter and will be requested to submit full papers by 28 February 2019. All papers will be subject to blind peer review.
For author instructions, please consult: www.intellectbooks.com/ijia
Contact Email: e.cayli@lse.ac.uk
URL: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=204/

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