ECCS 2014 - The European Conference on Cultural Studies 2014

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Category Cultural Studies; Culture; Studies;

Deadline: March 01, 2014 | Date: July 24, 2014-July 27, 2014

Venue/Country: Brighton, U.K.

Updated: 2014-01-20 15:40:17 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Local, national and global cultures have been transformed by an intensification of human migration, mobility and multi-culture with multiple and complex claims of home, identity and belonging. Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of the borderland has become a critical conceptual rubric used by cultural researchers as a way of understanding, explaining and articulating the in-determined, vague, ambiguous nature of everyday life and the cultural politics of border-knowledge, border crossings, transgression, living in-between and multiple belongings. Borderlands is also about a social space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities meet and share a space in which the politics of co-presence and co-existence are experienced and enacted in mundane ways. This conference, which focuses on the borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing, is therefore about examining how the culture of everyday life is regulated and contested across diverse political, economic and social contexts, and whether and how it creates spaces of belonging with others.

The aim of this conference theme is to open up discussion, critical reflection and analysis about emerging social, political and cultural identities that are formed at the intersection of multiple and multi-sited belongings and their expression and about the possibility of making them shared across differences.

We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):

Trans-cultural displacement/belonging

Belonging and the intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality

Seeking refuge, unruly belonging(s) and border politics

Trauma and joy of becoming and belonging

Communication, new technologies and belonging

Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging

Cultural politics of survival/transgression

New imaginings/formations of home

Citizenship beyond borders

Multicultural exhaustion/renewal

Belonging in the Anthropocene

Multiple and complex belongings

Re-locating culture across borders

Convivial cultures and the imagined communities

Creation of shared space(s) of multiple belongings

We hope that the 2014 conference theme will encourage academic and personal encounters and exchanges across national, religious, cultural and disciplinary divides. We look forward to seeing you in cosmopolitan, diverse and fun Brighton, the perfect European home for IAFOR’s latest Cultural Studies event!

Professor Baden Offord

Professor of Cultural Studies & Human Rights, Southern Cross University, Australia

Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

Conference Co-Chair

Professor Stuart Picken

Chair, Japan Society of Scotland

Chair, IAFOR IAB

Conference Co-Chair

Professor Koichi Iwabuchi

Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia

Director of the Monash University Asia Institute

Conference Program Adviser