[ecrea] Peripheral Visions: Suburbs, Representation and Innovation CFP

>Call for Papers:
>
>Peripheral Visions: Suburbs, Representation and Innovation
>Kingston University, United Kingdom, 17-18 June 2011
>
>Recent work in the burgeoning interdisciplinary 
>field of suburban studies has focused on how 
>suburbs have become increasingly diverse and 
>dynamic places. Arguably, though, perceptions of 
>suburban life, whether in executive commuter 
>belts, banlieues or shanty towns, continue to be 
>dominated by a relatively narrow range of 
>representations. Yet, as suburbs have emerged, 
>developed and diversified, new forms of creative 
>production ­ across film, photography, 
>literature, music and digital media ­ have 
>arisen from and in response to them. This 
>two-day conference will investigate what it is 
>about these seemingly inauspicious environments 
>and lifestyles that has rendered them so 
>inspirational. It seeks to illuminate the 
>aesthetic shifts and formal innovations that 
>have been involved in their representation over 
>the last century, across all media and genres, 
>and within and across different cultures and 
>territories. By focusing on such innovations, 
>Peripheral Visions will interrogate d!
>  evelopments to concepts that are central to 
> twentieth and twenty-first century life, 
> including property, autonomy, consumption and citizenship.
>
>Confirmed keynote speakers:
>Professor Rob Shields (University of Alberta)
>Professor Carrie Tarr (Kingston University)
>Dr Jo Gill (University of Exeter)
>
>We welcome proposals for panels and papers which 
>explore topics including, but not limited to:
>"       Defining suburban aesthetics and poetics
>"       Suburbs and genre
>"       The suburb as fictional world
>"       New technologies and auto-documentary / subcultural production
>"       Pioneer suburbs and their representation
>"       Poverty on the periphery / the suburbs in economic crisis
>"       Suburban pasts, suburban futures
>"       Representing transnational suburbs
>
>We also welcome contributions which cross critical/creative boundaries.
>
>Please submit abstracts (of up to 500 words) 
>online at 
>http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/conferences/abstracts/ 
>by 01/02/2011. Email enquiries to 
>(m.dines /at/ kingston.ac.uk) or (t.vermeulen /at/ let.ru.nl)
>
>Thank you,
>Martin Dines,
>Kingston University

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