Interconnectedness

 

We are delighted to announce the theme for [X]position Volume 10: Interconnectedness. The editorial team are looking for prospective writers to explore varying and diverse topics which relate in some way to the theme. Interconnectedness permeates all levels of our society, with subthemes including communication, human systems, and interdisciplinarity. Listed below are some examples of how the theme could be interpreted by applicants from different subject backgrounds, though this is by no means an exhaustive list. If you have an idea that’s not listed below and you're not sure if it fits the theme, please get in touch and we can offer advice on your topic. 

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Suggested topics include but are not limited to: 

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• Communications  

• Psychology of groups 

• Biological networks of organisms 

• Extra-solar-system astrophysics  

• Intertextuality (cultural artefacts referencing and/or being made up of other cultural artefacts) 

• Social networks 

• Interdependance (as opposed to or complement of independence) 

• Globalisation  

• Interculturality 

• Cultural exchange (that could be present day or as evidenced in historical documents and archaeology) 

• The environment and nature, and our relationships with these 

• Human-animal interactions 

• Linguistics  

• Child language acquisition 

• Multilingualism 

• Communicating to an audience (e.g. political speeches, advertising) 

• Semantics & pragmatics 

• Conversation analysis 

• Use of language on social media  

• Comparative readings of foreign language works 

• Reception of works/ideas produced in one place/space and received in another 

• Accounts of migration 

• Evolution of writing systems  

• Multi/hypermedia 

• Artistic collectives 

• Ecology (interactions between organisms and their environment), interactions between – and within – animal species (predation, competition, symbiosis, cooperation) 

• Culture and social living in animals 

• Animal-plant interactions (mutualisms, pollination, seed dispersal, herbivory, antagonistic interactions) 

• Connections between human psychology/personality and physical health/behaviour 

• Algebraic geometry (the relationship between equations and geometric objects)  

• The mathematical notion of abstraction 

• Anything involving the meeting of two (or more) disciplines 

 

For information on submission types, please see our guidance on how to write an abstract for the journal. ​​​