Fwd: Wild Research

[Paola Di Maio]

I like the idea of fostering the spirit of wilderness and rebellion within the scholarly community

as opposed of trying to institutionalise and chastise independent researchers  into

submission . The call below may be of interest to Ronin Scholars

Abominamur Aberratio

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From: David Archibald <radicalfi...@lists.riseup.net>
Date: Wed, May 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Subject: Wild Research
To: radicalfi...@lists.riseup.net <radicalfi...@lists.riseup.net>

Hello everyone,

The deadline for the CfP below looms. 

All best,

David

Special issue of Media Practice and Education Journal: WILD RESEARCH

Call For Proposals on the theme of Wild Research: Proposals due 1^st June 2025

Guest editors: 

David Archibald (University of Glasgow)

Kirsten Adkins (University of Glasgow)

Jill Daniels (University of East London)

Leah Sinforiani (Unaffiliated Writer and Researcher)

 

Deadline for 500-word Abstract Submissions: 1^st June 2025

Deadline for Full Papers: 1^st November 2025

Expected date of publication: December 2026

In 2024, the Journal Media Practice and Education and The Revelator Wall of Death held an extraordinary two-day symposium in Glasgow on the subject of ‘Wild Research’. Through an eclectic and unconventional series of academic and artistic responses the symposium responded against the demand in recent years that academic scholarship is measurably useful, for society and for the university itself.

The call for presentations at the symposium stated: ‘The image of the solitary scholar burrowing away on their own idiosyncratic concerns has been replaced by that of the pragmatic scholar, working tirelessly to produce outputs which can be measured by their income-generating capacity through scoring well in research assessment exercises, or through identifiable social engagement. This process has been accompanied by a move to further regulate academic research, in form and in content, by an encouragement to work with favoured institutions, or on state-supported researchpriorities, which increasingly focus on industry and have short-term goals hard-wired into them. At the same time, art schools, institutions which were developed to train artists, have been increasingly professionalised, forced to operate within the metricised logics of the neoliberal university, and artists increasingly work in conditions marked by significant budgetary cuts and limited curatorial horizons.

The symposium sought to explore how academics and artists might negotiate these dominant but limited methods of working, methods which close down, rather than open up, possibilities for the production of new knowledge in its broadest sense, by demanding a right to be wild.

 

We are now seeking contributions for a special issue of the journal devoted to the theme of ‘Wild Research’ which will take the discussion forward. Proposals are welcome from those who attended the symposium and from those who did not. The ‘wild’ in the ‘wild research’ call can accommodate multiple, perhaps contradictory, perspectives and practices but could include:

 

  * Research which is unfunded

  * Research which deliberately operates outwith of the regulatory

    frameworks of higher education and/or cultural/industrial sectors

  * Research which knows not what it is doing

  * Research which seeks to decolonise the academy in form

  * Research which is indisciplinary

  * Research which demands the right to opacity

  * Research which rejects the Scramble for Impact

  * Research which refuses to worship at the high altar of the written word

  * Research which moves to its own beat

  * Research which is confident of its own interior logic

  * Research which theorises how we might understand ‘wild’ or ‘wildness’

 

Proposals are welcome in one of the following forms:

1.     Scholarly articles (4000-6000 words including references)

2.     ●      Creative written piece which may include video, audio, images, text (3000-4000 words)

3.     ●      Audio, video and multimedia pieces (with research statement 1000 words)

4.     ●      Interview or conversation (2000-3000 words)

5.     ●      Performance (plus documentation and research statement 1000 words)

 

All practice pieces to provide open access links.

All full proposals will be peer reviewed.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & TIMELINE

Please send a 500-word abstract which addresses the theme and format, and a 100-word bio to: David Archibald, David.A...@glasgow.ac.uk by 1^st June, 2025. Authors of accepted abstracts will be contacted in mid July 2025 and invited to submit full contributions by 1^st November, 2025. Expected date of publication: December, 2026.

Style guide for authors: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rjmp21

 

CONTACT 

David Archibald: David.A...@glasgow.ac.uk

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About the journal: Media Practice and Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal’s Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review.

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

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[Keith Tse]

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Keith