This bilingual journal (English and French) is intended to disseminate knowledge about activities concerning folklore and ethnology, in Canada and elsewhere, through the publication of articles, book reviews, notes, and other information pertaining to research and academic inquiry in all branches of folklore.
We thus invite colleagues working on sport, in Canada or elsewhere, to consider this call for papers:
PLAY
Play has throughout time been a highly contested yet often misunderstood cultural phenomenon. Through its expression it enables the production of culture while at the same time is in itself a cultural product. Games and sports, as they are most broadly perceived, are important sites of identity construction. Whether as a personal or collective celebration, the expressive potentiality of play is profound. This potential, however, is negotiated within the constraints of body, society, culture and the very rules of play. How then is expressivity negotiated within the constraints of games and sports, and how can such a context enable the projection, construction and awareness of self. How does adversity enable the reproduction of identity? In what way does play still provide a means of exploring the limits of one’s body, individuality and culture in order to (re)discover/express one’s identity?
In this special issue of Ethnologies, we invite thoughts on identity games and on performed identity in games and sports. We seek a better understanding of how a player can express and assert himself/herself in leisure or sporting practices, and of the social coherence of these practices.
Submissions can focus on various perspectives, for example:
- Social and symbolic functions and issues of specific games or sports
- Cultural and historical grounding of leisure or sporting events and rites
- Representations of players/athletes in society
- Communities of players and athletes
- Games' and sports’ implicit codes, rules and internal mechanisms
- The socialization and crystallization of ideals through games and sport
- Social tensions created/played out/resolved by games and sports
- Those left out, forgotten, or the losers in games and sports
Other topics related to the theme of this special issue are also welcome.
Submitted articles must be original, 20 double-spaced pages or the equivalent in length (Times New Roman, 12 pts) and can be written in either English or French. They should be accompanied by
- an abstract, and
- a short biography.
Three paper copies of the manuscript, with a separate title page for anonymous review, are to be sent to the journal (see address below). An electronic version should also be sent to the guest editors. Photos or other illustrations (format tif or jpeg with at least 300 ppp resolution) should be sent separately with a clear indication of where in the body of the article they should appear.
The deadline for submissions is 18 September 2009.
Ethnologies
CELAT — Faculté des lettres,
Pavillon Charles-De-Koninck
1030 ave des Sciences humaines
Université Laval
Quebec, QC G1V 0A6
Canada
Guest editors: Jocelyn Gadbois, Michael Robidoux et Christine Dallaire
playjouer@gmail.com
For other information: http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/acef/revue.htm
Or you can also email Michael (robidoux@uottawa.ca) or I (christine.dallaire@uottawa.ca) for more information.
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