Kirjoittaminen ja etnografia -teemanumero – uusi deadline 14.2.22

Kirjoittamisen tutkimuksen julkaisun, SCRIPTUM Creative Writing Research Journal -teemanumeron aiheena on etnografia. Julkaisuun haetaan artikkeleita, jotka käsittelevät mm. persoonallista kerrontaa ja etnografiaa, kirjallisten tekstilajien käyttöä, autoetnografiaa, kirjoituksen reflektiota etnografiassa.

Käsikirjoitusversioiden deadline 14.2.2022. Tekstit voivat olla joko suomen tai englannin kielisiä, maksimissaan 7500 sanaa, osoitteeseen creativewritingstudies@jyu.fi

Lisätietoja: teemanumeron toimittaja toht. Emilia Karjula, emilia.karjula@utu.fi

SCRIPTUM Creative Writing Research Journal 

Publisher: University of Jyväskylä / Music, Art and Culture Studies
ISSN 2342-6039

Call for papers

Scriptum special issue: Creative writing and ethnography

Submission deadline 14 February 2022

Articles of maximum 7500 words are welcome in Finnish and English and should be sent to creativewritingstudies@jyu.fi

Guest editor: PhD Emilia Karjula, University of Turku

For additional information, please contact Emilia Karjula, emilia.karjula@utu.fi

Ethnographies are, and have been written in various ways. The crisis of representation and the rise of reflexive ethnography have led to a heightened awareness of textuality and genre. Clifford Geertz (1980) famously wrote about blurred genres, while Laurel Richardson (2005,1415) notes how ethnographic writing can morph into “auto-ethnography, fiction, poetry, drama, readers’ theater, writing stories, aphorisms, layered texts, conversations, epistles, polyvocal texts, comedy, satire, allegory, visual texts, hypertexts, museum displays, choreographed findings, and performance pieces”, to name a few.

The connections between ethnography and creative writing become most apparent when we look at ethnographies as texts written by specific authors with their own writerly voices, epistemologies and techniques. Autoethnography and reflexive writing make space for personal narratives and studies of authorship. Ethnographers, as well as creative writers, make textual experiments, build plots, describe characters and work with their senses to give the reader a felt experience of events.

This special issue of Scriptum invites researchers to reflect on convergences or collisions in the fields and margins of ethnography and (creative) writing research. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Genres of creative writing in written ethnographies

Possibilities of creative writing in producing, analyzing and representing ethnographic data

Ethnographic research of creative writers / writing groups / creative writing pedagogy

Ethnographic studies of the writing process

Epistemological, methodological and ethical issues in creative writing and ethnographic research

Language-based artistic research and ethnography

Autoethnography and creative writing

References

Gertz, C. (1980). Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought. The American Scholar, 49(2), 165–179.

Richardson. L, & and St. Pierre, E. (2005). “Writing: A Method of Inquiry.” In Lincoln, Y., & Denzin, N. (2011). The SAGE handbook of qualitative research. SAGE.

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SCRIPTUM Creative Writing Research Journal is a peer reviewed online creative writing research journal. Scriptum publishes manuscripts in English and Finnish. There is no fee to publish an article in the journal. Scriptum is an Open access -publication, with DOI addresses. The publication is classified by JUFO and indexed by JYX and EBSCO.

Publisher: University of Jyväskylä / Music, Art and Culture Studies
ISSN 2342-6039