[eccr] CFP: Globalization and the Rhetoric of Authenticity

>CFP:  Globalization and the Rhetoric of Authenticity (12/01/04; CSA 05;
>4/21/05-4/24/05)
>
>Globalization and the Rhetoric of Authenticity
>The Third Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference (U.S.)
>Theme: Sex, Race, and Globalization
>Tucson, AZ
>April 21-24, 2005
>
>This panel (or panels) will examine the role the rhetoric of
>authenticity plays in struggles whose outcomes
>often determine access to markets and trading rights, citizenship,
>human and civil rights, jobs, education,
>and health care.  In a global economy in which national identity has
>increasingly less currency, what other
>identities and coalitions are forged and what role does the rhetoric of
>authenticity play in debates
>determining their legitimacy, status, and access to the bounty promised
>by globalization? What constitutes
>the authentic at any given site of contestation and to what degree has
>globalization exacerbated anxieties
>concerning the authentic?  What economic or political agendas are
>mobilized by rhetorics of authenticity
>invoked around national or religious affiliation, class, race, gender,
>or sexual orientation in the age of
>globalization?  Papers from all disciplines and theoretical
>dispositions, from national and international
>perspectives, are invited on how rhetorics of authenticity play a role
>in determining the legitimacy of any
>given individual or group's appeal for survival.
>
>U.S. examples include:  Opposition to LGBT marriage as an inauthentic
>copy of the original, the
>development of user authentication as a gateway to networks and the
>internet, the role of authenticity in
>determining qualifications for political asylum, the degree to which
>debates regarding designations like
>unlawful enemy combatant are ultimately about who has the power to name
>and authenticate status,
>etc?.
>
>Please direct inquiries by snail mail to Maureen A. Riddle, Dept of
>English, 406 Holmes Hall,
>Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 or by email to
>(MaureenARiddle /at/ comcast.net).  Abstracts of
>@ 250 words will be accepted as attached Word documents at
>(MaureenARiddle /at/ comcast.net) until
>midnight December 1st, 2004.   Actual panel application deadline is
>Dec. 15th, so no proposals will be
>accepted after the Dec. 1st deadline.

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Carpentier Nico (Phd)
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