{"id":4840,"date":"2024-04-08T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=4840"},"modified":"2024-04-08T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:45:36","slug":"n-radical-history-review-calls-for-submissions-on-the-theme-the-rest-is-political-radical-histories-of-repose","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/n-radical-history-review-calls-for-submissions-on-the-theme-the-rest-is-political-radical-histories-of-repose\/","title":{"rendered":"N – Radical History Review Calls for Submissions on the Theme: The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose \u2013 Due May 15, 2024<\/h1>\n
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Radical History Review\u00a0<\/em>seeks contributions to a forthcoming issue that will explore the expansive possibilities when we historicize rest.<\/p>\n

Rest is everywhere part of quotidian human experience, and the human body\u2019s need for intermittent periods of restorative unconsciousness is a universal feature of our shared biology. Yet how societies, communities and individuals have segmented sleep in time, sequestered it in space and fought over access to it are matters of historical study. In the wake of the 24-hour workday, chronobiology and other interdisciplinary fields of medical science and public health research emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet calls to \u201cslow down\u201d amidst today\u2019s great speed-up seem to have done little to abate the contemporary public health and social justice crisis.<\/p>\n

History does not pause during the minutes and hours of daily repose. On the contrary, sleep is perennially the subject of fervent contestation. The medical, architectural, cultural, social, legal, and political economic dimensions of sleep lend it to critical study; the dangerous, vexing, and by now normalized dearth of it in today\u2019s world makes it the urgent subject of radical history.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the contemporary urgency of ensuring the right to restorative time away from labor, with this issue the editors hope to highlight the radical potential for the historical study of sleep and rest, and the opportunities this area of study provides for historians to connect with scholars in the natural sciences, architects and planners, and policymakers and activists.<\/p>\n

Collectively, the contributions to this issue, we hope, can redefine spaces of refuge and shelter, question received ideas about obligatory productivity, and probe the boundaries between private and public. We encourage submissions from and about all parts of the world and historical epochs, particularly from the pre- and early-modern eras as well as more contemporary history. We endeavor not necessarily to trace a global, transhistorical trajectory of how people have slept in times past, but rather to find models for studying this element of everyday life whose immense political power is hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n

Topics may include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n