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Nights and Mountains
Call for articles. Deadlines: 1 December 2016 (abstract) and 1 June 2017
(full article). Issue editorial board: Luc Gwiazdzinski (Université
Grenoble Alpes, IGA, PACTE, UMR 5194 CNRS, MOTU,
[email protected] / Will Straw, Department of Art
History and Communications Studies (McGill University)
[email protected]
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Association pour la diffusion de la
recherche alpine
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ISSN: 1760-7426
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Nights and Mountains
Nights and Mountains
Call for articles. Deadlines: 1 December 2016 (abstract) and 1 June 2017
(full article). Issue editorial board: Luc Gwiazdzinski (Université
Grenoble Alpes, IGA, PACTE, UMR 5194 CNRS, MOTU,
[email protected] / Will Straw, Department of Art
History and Communications Studies (McGill University)
[email protected]
Context
This call for articles probes the development of mountain nights along various historical,
economic, social, cultural, territorial and environmental dimensions. This inquiry forms
part of a chronotopical approach and a rhythmanalysis of society and territories into 24
hours a day, seven days a week and a combination of the two.
The alternation between day and night has long structured life on Earth and determined
the way in which society, as well as our individual and collective rhythms, functions.
From the beginning, man has sought to escape the rhythms imposed by Mother Nature
and extend his empire across the globe. While this conquest of the world system is now
more or less complete, night – characterised, like a mountain, by seasonal rhythms and a
gradual incline – has long remained a time and space almost untouched by human
activity: a downtime, a world unexplored. But times are changing. For the past 20 years,
economic and social activities have gradually colonised the night. Lighting is becoming
commonplace everywhere, and its purpose is steadily changing, for example, from
security to convenience. Many kinds of equipment run nonstop, and night work is
becoming routine. The general trend is for there to be an increase in the prevalence and
range of services. Businesses extending their opening hours into the night are becoming
more and more common, too. The supply of night-time entertainment is expanding.
Theme nights are a hit. The media curfew is over, and the Internet makes it possible to
surf all night long. The result: We sleep an hour less than our grandparents did, and in
the big cities, the night has been reduced to three wee hours between 1:30 a.m. and 4:30
a.m. These movements of expanding economic and social activity beyond the boundaries
of the day, this “nocturnalisation” of society and “diurnisation” of the night in Western
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cities and metropolises, have been well documented. They have received less attention,
however, outside the urban centres and specifically in the mountain areas.
The central assumption of this call for articles is that the mountains have not been
spared from the reach of the day into the night, and they are becoming territories
of tension, investigation, creativity and experimentation that compel us to rethink
our ways of living by incorporating the nocturnal and temporal dimensions. In both
tourist and non-tourist zones, farmers, or even peasant-workers, working with animals
not only during the day but also at night, as well as seasonal workers (removing snow or,
in recent years, laying down artificial snow), ski tourers, mountain climbers and others
have always availed themselves of the mountain night. By bringing with it a more tourist/
heritage dimension and/or by making this dimension more visible, does importing the
city’s nocturnal model into the mountain play any role in refashioning the concept of
night in the mountain?
Going for a hike in the mountains would be enough to grasp that the night is now an
exploited resource: landscapes transformed by light, brightly lit ski slopes, a new range of
leisure activities, the night-time operation of sporting and tourist equipment, as well as
new uses, new representations and new identities for the territories and for the
marketing of the night(life). Tourism-oriented operating strategies are spreading thanks
to lighting, the expansion of the range of services and activities outside the daytime, and
even the increase in tourism policies focused on the night. By contrast, the development
strategies depend on the granting of heritage status (patrimonialisation) to the night and
the starry sky.
There is no question that the mountains are spaces where the conflicting economic and
symbolic uses of exploitation and protection, continuity and standstill, and
artificialisation and nature are at play in a more open and accentuated manner. In this
sense, the night has many things to say to the day. Furthermore, it is easy to imagine that
a transformation of the night would have an impact on the day.
The mountain nights are also territories of innovation. They invite us to rethink our
social and cultural identities, as well as those of our territories. The night is not a
resource like any other. These clear trends in the mountains reveal the dynamics and the
paradoxes that criss-cross contemporary society and open up new scientific perspectives.
What are these evolutions? Which sectors and territories are affected? What are the kinds
of sociability and identity that are emerging? What are the ongoing innovations? What is
the likely outlook? These are some of the questions that could be tackled in this issue.
The interplay between the night and the mountain could be addressed in all its
dimensions. Articles can try to show the specific features of the night in the mountain
and the night’s development on various spatial and historical levels. They can
highlight the changes in the territory’s range of night-time activities, show how it has
increased and, in light of the continuous passage of time, what the resistance from and
setbacks for the economy, techniques and the media have been. They can provide an
overview of the residents’, day visitors’ and tourists’ emerging needs and of the
adaptations to and characteristics of the range of offers.
Between a sleepless night and a black night, they can highlight differences in the
strategies to exploit or grant heritage status to the mountain nights, namely to use or
to protect the resource. They can identify and analyse the contradictions between the
exploitation of night-time resources via its diurnisation (light, night skiing, night
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markets…) on the one hand and the exploitation by protecting the nocturnal heritage
(“night of stars” and the “starred town” / village étoilé label) on the other.
They can question the recent conflicts of use between permanent and temporary
residents, new and former uses, and technification and naturalisation. The can explore
the different forms of exploitation between the spectacular staging of extraordinary
nights and the development of everyday nights. Observing public space can naturally
extend into the private sphere and indoor spaces. In this respect, the evolution of a
nocturnal sociability and an analysis of nocturnal rites and scenes are other possible
avenues to explore. Comparative analyses of new representations of the mountain night
and the aestheticisation of these territories are welcome. The temporary, seasonal or
permanent transformation of the nocturnal mountain space will be investigated.
Particular attention will be paid to developments at the heart of protected zones and to
an analysis of the peak and off-peak tourist seasons. It will also be possible to examine the
double whammy of both the mountain and the night, which would seek to test its limits,
and the emergence of a “nocturnal condition” of the mountain.
This special issue sets out to establish and interpret the processes of mountain nights’
transformation in their various dimensions. It will strive to critically examine the
relationships between the night and the mountain in economic, social, cultural and
environmental dimensions. Decidedly multiscalar, it uses the mountain to gain a global
perspective of the phenomenon of the transformation of the night.
Potential issues and topics for articles
The proposals for articles should seek to contribute to the discussion about the
transformation of nights in the mountain:
• How and to what end are the mountain spaces and societies transformed by this extension
of the reach of the day?
• What kind of evolution?
• What kind of exploitation?
• What are the effects on the night (landscape, society, territory…)?
• What are the economic, political, social, environmental and cultural consequences?
• What kind of lifestyle and sociability becomes more widespread in the mountain when the
day no longer holds sway as it did before?
• In what way are the mountain nights a time and a place for innovation?
• Can one stick to examining leisure activities in order to understand the night? What about
the resort employees who work for the tourists? What about the mountain night away from
the resorts and outside of peak season?
• What is the outlook in terms of territorial strategy?
Calendar
Around 600 words in length, the proposals for articles should be sent in French (if the
author is French-speaking) OR in English (non-French-speaking authors) by 1 December
2016 to Luc Gwiazdzinski, (Université Grenoble Alpes, IGA, PACTE, UMR 5194 CNRS,
MOTU), [email protected], to Will Straw, (Department of Art
History and Communications Studies, McGill University) [email protected] and to
the editorial coordination section: Olivier Vallade, [email protected]; Sylvie
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Duvillard
(Université
Pierre-Mendès-France,
CNRS
PACTE UMR5194),
[email protected]; Coralie Mounet (CNRS PACTE UMR5194),
[email protected]
• Final articles are expected by 1 June 2017.
• The final articles must be submitted in one of the languages of the journal: the Alpine
languages (French, Italian and German), Spanish or English. Beforehand, the author must
plan to have the text translated into a second language after assessment. One of the two
versions must be in English. If the article is submitted by an English-language speaker, the
translation must be in French.
• Publication of the issue is scheduled for the end of 2017.
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INDEX
Keywords: night, mountain, time, work, leisure, tourism, lifestyles, diurnisation,
nocturnalisation, patrimonialisation, artificialisation, innovations, exploitation, nocturnal
economy, nocturnal sociability
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