Wandering: Special Issue of M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol. 22, No. 4
Edited journal
Book Title | Wandering: Special Issue of M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol. 22, No. 4 |
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Book Category | Edited journal |
ERA Publisher ID | 3063 |
Editors | Cantrell, Kate, Van Luyn, Ariella and Doolan, Emma |
Volume | 22 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Queensland University of Technology |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISSN | 1441-2616 |
Web Address (URL) | http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ |
Abstract | Wandering is an embodied movement through a landscape, cityscape, or soundscape; it is a venture that one may undertake voluntarily or reluctantly. It is similar to wayfaring and roaming, and different to walking. As a metaphor and as a figuration of subjectivity, wandering allows for a number of non-linear engagements: loitering, overhearing, wildflowering, meandering, even time travel. When coupled with an act of memory or imagination, wandering can instigate wondering, and vice versa. It can refer to the physical movement of the body through space or the abstract wandering of the mind through time; more often than not, it is both. The contributions to this special issue on ‘Wandering’ take up the theme in ways that demonstrate how straying from prescribed pathways and patterns of movement can be a transformative experience: one that renders new ways of thinking, reading, gaming, communicating, and being. For the authors featured here, wandering is deeply affectual, at times intimate and empowering, at other times disorientating, melancholy, and compulsive. Wandering provokes an awareness of the ambiances of everyday life, a response to the repression of desire, trauma, and historical violence. |
Keywords | wandering, travel, travel writing, mobility studies, mobilities |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470101. Communication studies |
360201. Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) | |
470599. Literary studies not elsewhere classified | |
470299. Cultural studies not elsewhere classified | |
Journal Title | M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
University of New England | |
Southern Cross University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q5597/wandering-special-issue-of-m-c-journal-a-journal-of-media-and-culture-vol-22-no-4
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