KALEIDOSCOPE BOOK SERIES: ETHNOGRAPHY, ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY. (original) (raw)

Kaleidoscope is a short book series of 20,000 to 50,000 words designed as an experimental and cross-disciplinary platform that documents and forges an innovative path forward for ethnography in a precarious era. Our interest to initiate Kaleidoscope emerges from a desire to provoke the junctures of physical and social sciences, as both a life practice and as a self-critical engagement. We welcome innovative approaches to the study of people, societies, environments, multispecies worlds, epistemologies, scapes, things, performances, and expressions that probe the potentials and limits of ethnography. The series seeks to foreground the junctures between ethnography and other disciplinary intersections. Kaleidoscope particularly welcomes manuscripts at the intersections of archaeology, art, architecture, performance, design, and the environmental humanities that experiment with fieldnotes, fictocritical writing, lyrical sociology, flash ethnography, micro-essay, embodied phenomenology, reflexive memoir, ethnographic and auto-archaeology, the curation of hyperobjects, and conversations with the feuilleton. We are also open to manuscripts that are collaborative, co-authored, processual, performative, multimodal or push the boundaries between the ethnographer, the ethnographed, and the scene of writing. Manuscripts can be immersive, meditative, investigative, interrogative or speculative but also rigorous. Writing that addresses humans, non-humans, and the unhuman are of particular interest.