verge: studies in global asias – cfp

CFP Verge: Studies in Global Asias  

Issue 13.2 

THINGS THAT MATTER: MATERIALITY AND THE MAKING OF GLOBAL ASIAS

Edited by Neelima Jeychandran, Monica Merlin , and Tina Chen 

On the Theme 

Global networks and transcultural exchanges in the Asiatic world were in the making from pre-modern times, with the overland Silk Roads and the maritime seaborne Indian Ocean trade routes connecting vast geographies. Luxury commodities, raw materials, cultural items, and wearable objects—myriad things have moved along the sea lanes. As the contents of the Beilitung and Cirebon shipwrecks demonstrate, a connected world was established through an advanced system of exchange that catered to a need and desire for international goods. As Empires, traders, people, missionaries, and travelers moved a range of things, material objects actively linked the Asian, Mediterranean, Arabian, and African worlds. Within the modern and contemporary world, as things continued to be traded, carried, and transacted, many objects became legitimate representatives of a culture, place, or identity. In other instances, things became treasured heirlooms passed on from person to person and from generation to generation as they not only yoked the past with the present but also produced personal and community narratives on shared histories.

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