CFP: Popular Culture and Politics: Perspectives from Canada
Eds. Tim Nieguth (Laurentian University) and Shauna Wilton (University
of Alberta)
We invite scholarly contributions for an edited volume on the
relationship between popular culture and politics. Political culture and
political traditions have long occupied a central place in Canadian
political science. Not surprisingly, their study has been characterized
by theoretical, conceptual and methodological diversity. Canadian
inquiries into the relationship between culture and politics have run
the gamut from civic culture to fragment thesis and formative events
approaches. They have covered an equally varied field of subject
matters, ranging from the emergence of post-materialism and a decline of
deference to the nature of Canada’s founding traditions.
Despite this considerable (and fruitful) diversity, Canadian studies of
culture and politics have tended to focus on explicitly political ideas,
beliefs and attitudes, their transmission, and their transformation.
Canadian political scientists have paid relatively little attention to
popular culture and its interconnections with the political. While the
political implications of popular culture have not escaped academic
analysis, they have typically been scrutinized through the lenses of
media studies, cultural studies, and sociology.
The proposed volume is based on the notion that popular culture matters
to understanding politics. Popular culture matters politically, for
instance, because it can transport particular notions of politics,
society, and the nature of power and identity. In consequence, popular
culture can serve as a vehicle for the reinforcement of or resistance to
dominant political values and ideologies. Popular culture can also serve
as a site for engagement with particular values, attitudes or beliefs –
an engagement that forms part and parcel of individual and collective
identity formation processes.
We welcome submissions of original, previously unpublished work on any
aspect of popular culture and politics, including (but not limited to)
the following broad themes:
- Political sociology
- Collective identities
- Political economy
- Geopolitics
Please submit paper proposals of about 500 words to
tnieguth@laurentian.ca by way of Microsoft Word attachments. Proposals
should clearly explain the paper’s relevance to a Canadian audience.
Please include a short biographical statement and full contact
information with your submission.
Submission deadline: June 15, 2009.
For further information, please feel free to contact the editors at:
Tim Nieguth
Department of Political Science
Laurentian University
935 Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury, ON, P3E 2C6
Tel.: (705) 675-1151, ext: 4329
Email: tnieguth@laurentian.ca
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CFP: Islam and gender in Asia and the diaspora
This Special Issue of the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS) solicits articles on Islam and Gender with a focus on Asia. Submissions will address women’s lives, gender dynamics and Muslim women’s movements, including both formal movements and subtle, informal,everyday acts of resistance. The special issue will include a broad range of discussions on how Muslim women strategize and negotiate their lives and/or movements to accommodate and/or resist Islamic dominance in terms of the nation state, constitutions and dominant cultural norms. We are seeking articles that tackle the above stated issues, specifically covering the regions of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, S.E. Asia and any Muslim demographic from the pertinent region as well as the diaspora, including refugee populations.
Scholars and activists are invited to submit unpublished manuscripts that are currently not under review. Please consult the JIWS web site (www.bridgew.edu/jiws/) for submission guidelines including length, format and bibilographical/referencing styles. Forward all submissions via email attachment to the special issue editors, Huma Ahmed-Ghosh at (ghosh[at]mail.sdsu.edu) or Rahat Imran at (rai[at]sfu.ca) by April 1, 2009.
