[ecrea] Re-visiting Latin American Cultural and Media Studies

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Re-visiting Latin American Cultural and Media Studies
>
>Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 
>(WPCC), Volume 7, Number 3, 2010
>
>
>Cultural and Media Studies are undergoing 
>diverse changes in regional contexts and remain 
>highly contested fields of intellectual debate 
>and analysis. Latin American media research, 
>best exemplified by the so-called Latin American 
>Communication Tradition, shows an increasing 
>convergence with Cultural Studies. However, 
>Latin American Cultural and Media Studies have 
>not taken their current directions as the result 
>of an epistemological break from British, 
>European and North American Cultural Schools, 
>but rather as a result of a de-centralized and 
>de-westernized analysis of sociocultural and 
>political processes in the region, which have 
>created popular and alternative perspectives in 
>communication and cultural research.
>
>Such perspectives span from Martin-Barberos 
> From Media to Mediations, to García-Canclinis 
>Hybrid Cultures, Castells Network Society and 
>Freires Pedagogy of the Oppressed.  Re-visiting 
>the cultural and communication standpoints 
>developed in Latin America will help to address 
>both on-going questions on globalization, and 
>cultural hybridization, from within the local 
>and regional cultures. This issue will reflect 
>on the evolution of these perspectives; it aims 
>to explore current research trends in the 
>region, and points of interaction and dialogue 
>with, as well as resistance to, the West. Can 
>contemporary Latin American Cultural and Media 
>Studies contribute new theories and 
>epistemologies to the discipline? Have Western 
>schools observed new trends in the region? Is 
>there a dialogue or resistance between the 
>Western and Latin American perspectives? Is the 
>region part of the Global South?
>
>This new issue of Westminster Papers in 
>Communication and Culture will be dedicated to 
>the analysis of current debates in Latin 
>American Media and Cultural Studies in relation 
>to British, European and North American Cultural 
>Studies. We welcome essays from a variety of 
>academic disciplines and traditions, such as 
>media studies, cultural studies, journalism 
>research, alternative media, etc., that deal 
>with theoretical and/or empirical aspects of 
>Latin American Cultural and Media Studies.
>
>A 300 word abstract, full contact information 
>for the corresponding author, and a biographical 
>note (up to 75 words) on each of the authors 
>should be submitted by no later than 11 June 
>2010. Authors of accepted abstracts will be 
>notified in June 2010 and will then be invited 
>to submit a full paper by 17 September 2010.
>
>
>Complete manuscripts should be prepared in 
>English in MS Word and adhere to the Manuscript 
>Submission Guidelines 
>(<http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1201>http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1201); 
>they should be 6000 words (minimum) to 8000 
>words (maximum), including notes and references. 
>Papers should be accompanied by an abstract of 
>100150 words and up to six keywords. The 
>manuscript must contain a separate title page 
>that should include: the title of the 
>manuscript; the name(s) and affiliation(s) of 
>the author(s); full contact details of the 
>author(s); the authors brief biographical 
>statement. An invitation to submit a full paper 
>does not constitute a commitment for 
>publication; all papers will be subject to 
>anonymous peer review following submission.
>
>Please send your abstract as an e-mail 
>attachment to the issue editor Yennue Zarate 
>(<(y.zarate_valderrama /at/ my.westminster.ac.htm)>(y.zarate_valderrama /at/ my.westminster.ac.uk))
>
>Deadline for abstracts: 11 June 2010
>Deadline for complete manuscripts: 17 September 2010
>
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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