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Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic e-journal, aiming to provide an interdisciplinary discursive space for all the researchers committed to quality research work. It is currently accepting submissions for Volume 7 Issue 1, "Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes."
The Call
Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences. This is dependent on the dynamics of cultural inclusion and exclusion. The impulse of action within this dynamic is the basis of spatiality, that is, the human aspect of space, as it is constructed and occupied according to the social identity and purposiveness of particular bodies.
The inscribed role of the human body in consciously forming the spaces within a city shapes their social and political order, which assimilates the individual within larger establishments while giving one the freedom to express one’s individuality. The emotional attachment of individual bodies to personalised urban spaces and collective embodied memory consigns values and functions to a space. The actions of human body, thus, are pertinent for deliberating upon individuated identities interacting with larger constructs—the dialectics between I and the Other, or the influence of space itself on interpersonal relations and interactions. In this manner, spaces can also be said to act upon human bodies through variegated provisions for association, performance, and engagement. These living spaces, on some occasions bring people closer through communal life, but on other occasions also subject them to isolation and social categorisation. In these instances, these places transform into sites of anonymity and loneliness, where ties of social relations are often broken.
Keeping in mind the reciprocity between space and body, Volume 7 Issue 1 of LLIDS invites papers on the understanding of space as to how it creates a flux of embodied experiences between anonymity, immersion, relatability, and belonging, as well as investigating how experience, in turn, maps and moulds spaces based on how bodies inhabit and traverse them. The CFP anticipates research enquiries which extend the discourse on spatiality and the role of the body and its agency in the imagination and formulation of spaces. LLIDS seeks scholarly contributions which address the above theme and/or go beyond them. Some suggestive thematics are listed below:
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Submission deadline: 15th March, 2025
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