Positions Issue #1: Open Submissions

Modern architecture and urbanism since 1900 needs to be, and is already being radically reconceptualized in light of a number of political, social and cultural developments: the ongoing dismantling of polemically-driven analyses and descriptions of modernism (and the development of new ones, polemically-driven and not); the opening up to scholarly research of new geographic areas in central and eastern Europe, where modernism was to a large extent born and actively practiced; the growing scholarship in Asian and African urbanisms; the continued study of modernism in Latin America; the development within the academy of new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of space, urbanism and built form in disciplines as disparate as studies in colonialism and post colonialism, gender, and film; cultural geography and anthropology; geographic area studies; critical theory; intellectual history and philosophy.

Positions’s aim is to broaden the scope of reflection and theorizing on these issues. We seek papers considering architecture and urbanism from a variety of methodological approaches. Submissions for Issue #1 are due 1 April 2009.

Authors are asked to submit papers to the editors, preferably in English. Papers should not be more than 6,000 words, in addition to complete citations in the form of endnotes. They should be accompanied by no more than ten images. If a paper is accepted for publication, the author will have the responsibility to obtain world rights to publish these images. E-mail submissions to: positions.on.modernism@gmail.com