Verge: Studies in Global Asias: The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media
Due Date: 05-01-2024
What is the Asian Century? This special issue invites critical perspectives from scholars working in and across multiple languages and disciplines. We seek submissions that explore the Asian Century as idea, method, and media, and that examine its genealogies and itineraries from a range of contexts and histories, including of labor, empire, capital, war, technology, pandemics, dispossession, modernization, culture, and aesthetics. With “idea, method, and media,” we intend to inspire, but not circumscribe, the possible range of disciplinary approaches and primary sources that might be enlisted in responding to this call. Indeed, the idea of the Asian Century may very well be predicated on counter-articulations of its impossibility. While the Asian Century may appear at first as periodizing marker or geopolitical diagnostic, we propose that it can also be read across media and cultural forms, as an affective relation to the past, present, and future, as a structure of feeling, and as a visual and sensorial regime. Finally, in proposing the Asian Century as method, we seek to revisit and reimagine the interdisciplinary stakes of the longstanding conversation on “Asia as method.”
Essays (6,000–10,000 words) and abstracts (125 words) should be submitted electronically through this submission form by 1 May 2024 and prepared according to the author-date and bibliography format of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Authors’ names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate document with the author’s name, address, institutional affiliations, and the title of the article with your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the text or notes if such references would identify them; any necessary references to the author’s previous work should be in the third person.
Please direct all inquiries to verge@psu.edu. For more information, see https://www.upress.umn.edu/journal-division/journals/verge-studies-in-global-asias/verge-11-2-cfp.pdf.