SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research

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The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research showcases the talent and diverse research interests of SOAS research students.

The Journal publishes full-length articles and short articles on any aspect of the research and fieldwork process. This can include, but is not limited to, personal reflections, translations, engagements with audio-visual materials, and interviews. The Journal also publishes book reviews.

The Journal showcases the talent of SOAS's junior researchers and the expanse of research interests, topics and regions covered at SOAS and should be seen as an introduction to the range of research expertise offered by SOAS's junior researchers.

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All submissions should follow the citation method outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style and be sent to: sjpr@soas.ac.uk.

Call for Papers | Issue 16 (2024)

Entangled Worlds and Situated Knowledge

Looking at the world is often a question of who is looking and from where they are looking. Just like an artist painting on their canvas selects a gaze of the landscape, scholars have the agency to prioritise perspectives, theories, and ideas to convey their arguments. The research world is experienced from a particular ‘vantage point’ (Ingold 2022, 237). This ‘vantage point’ is, at best, what all researchers can achieve. However, the vantage point does not exist in a vacuum and is situated in a world that is a product of natural, social, cultural, religious, economic, and historical conditions. This is what Karen Barad has conceptualised as “entanglement”.

This concept captures how “existence is not an individual affair. Individuals do not pre-exist their interactions; rather, individuals emerge through and as part of their entangled intra-relating”.  In fact, scholarship across disciplines of how knowledge is produced emphasises the ‘situatedness’ (Haraway 1988) and partial perspectives in a particular context. This results in creating an ever-expanding canvas of an entangled experience, existence, and relations for an ever-in-completed picture. These may be in combat, competition, collaboration, or in connection with each other. We are interested in understanding such relations and connections to the world in which we live to understand this entanglement while embracing the incompleteness of our research.

We invited submissions from all disciplines that can engage with the idea of entanglement, and how the world is different from different vantage points and perspectives to explore the interconnectedness of our relationships, subjects, fields of study, and global and personal encounters.

For considerations and submission criteria for this call for papers please see the submission guidelines in the SJPR Call for Papers Issue 16 2024 (submission is now closed).

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