Call for essays, analysis and art!
The COLING Project is accepting submissions on how we colonize or decolonize through the process of naming. Please select the most appropriate general topic for your submission from the following themes: political aspects of naming (gender, race, and power structures); Indigenous methodologies, decolonization and cultural revitalization methods (toponyms, cosmologies, and place names); personal narratives; linguistic analysis of naming practices and onomastics.
Names are a key aspect to our identity. They are what we call ourselves and they often determine how we live, how we move through the world and how we are understood or misunderstood. They are also how we are inscribed, documented and recorded by others. Our names carry ancestral lineages and knowledge of our Mother Tongue, as well as cultural knowledge and traditions. As a result, our names embody how we trace ourselves through our known family lines, as well as how we are tracked and followed by the state or government. They are highly personal, at the same time as being wholly political. How is it then, that we rarely explore, investigate and totally face what it means To Be Named?This call for essays, analysis and art on the culture, politics, and emotions of how we are named takes an interdisciplinary approach and seeks both academic and creative contributions that will be convened in a published volume (both as a book and online publication) and exhibition.
Submission deadline is January 15, 2021. Visit the link below for more information.