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PUBLIC 72: (Searching For) Home

Call for Submissions

We live in a time where so many are without a safe and permanent shelter as the legacies of slavery, settler colonialism, and imperial logics continue to fuel social and political mayhem. In response to the expansion of ongoing ruthless capitalism and ecological catastrophes across the globe, the seventy-second issue of PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas will explore the various physical, metaphorical and conceptual ways in which home is created, experienced, negotiated, and transformed.

In collaboration with The Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora, guest editors Shaunasea Brown and Nadine Valcin invite proposals from a variety of contributors to share

essays (of 2–3,000 words)

academic articles (of 5–6,000 words)

poetry

photography

visual art

short fiction (of 2,000 words or less)

Proposals should relate to topics that address “home” through a variety of complex themes, such as:

Indigenous rights to land and territory

migration and immigration

living in exile

war and conflict

transnational solidarities

housing, homelessness and tenant rights

encampments

un/belonging

accessibility

relational being

dreams

Some questions to be considered include (but are not limited to): What is the meaning of home? What happens when the place you live in becomes unlivable? How does migration, forced or voluntary, complicate issues of home and un/belonging? What are ethics for claiming spaces of home while insisting on living relationally alongside others? How does home ownership conflict with Indigenous land sovereignty? How do we care for those unhoused and displaced by capitalism and violent resource extraction? How does home feel, taste or smell? And how is home envisioned in the realm of the psychological and/or the spiritual?

With a commitment to the project of Black Studies’ interdisciplinary/undisciplined approaches to thinking, being (human), and creating worlds, editors will prioritize submissions from self-identified Black contributors as well as Indigenous people and people of colour.

PROPOSAL CRITERIA

Interested authors are asked to submit proposals which include an abstract (250 words max.), working title, up to five keywords, and a short bio (150 words max).

For photo and visual art submissions, please include a brief artist statement (250 words max.), images and/or link to media, and a short bio (150 words max).

DEADLINE: February 21^st, 2025

Submit proposals by visiting: https://publicjournal.ca/submit

General inquiries, email: Zach Pearl, Managing Editor, at public@yorku.ca

Issue Editors

Shaunasea Brown (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Cultural Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She is also a co-founder of the Black Researchers of Southwestern Ontario (BRSO) network. Her research collaborates with Black women artists of Caribbean descent and uses music, photography, visual and performance art to unpack second-generation Canadian understandings of selfhood, “home,” and nation.

Nadine Valcin (she/her) is a filmmaker and media artist whose practice spans documentary, experimental, and narrative film as well as installation and virtual reality. Her work explores questions of history, memory, identity, and language. She is a professor in the Bachelor of Film and Television program at Sheridan College.

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PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that explores the intersection of visual cultures and critical studies. Since 1988, it has served as an intellectual and creative forum focusing on the intersection of aesthetic, theoretical, and critical issues. In each themed and guest-edited issue, PUBLIC encourages a broad range of dialogue by bringing together artists, theorists, curators, philosophers, creative writers, and historians in the same letteral space. Learn more at publicjournal.ca

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