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[ecrea] CFP Journal Culture, Language and Representation

Wed Apr 24 09:52:31 GMT 2013



Journal/ Culture, Language and Representation/, ISSN: 1697-7750, seeks contributions for its next volume to appear May 2014. Volume 12 will be devoted to:

“Representations of the global economic crisis”

Given that representation conditions our responses and interpretations of events, at present, the attempts to control the symbolic space of discourses about the crisis is dominated by the struggle between the institutional and financial powers, and a number of counter-discourses that dispute such a space. The former appeal to and refashion mythologies and narratives, among which the moral one about sinners and redemption has become prominent, to regain their hegemonic place and lost credibility. The latter emerge from social movements like Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, 15-M, etc., that contest those narratives with grassroots intervention. In such a light, the representations of the crisis can be regarded as the ground where the ethical discourses that have become urgent and relevant are being articulated at the social symbolic level. And it would seem that the directions our societies will adopt in the near future will be strongly dictated by the outcome of such conflicting positions.

Contributions are welcome that tackle the representation of the global economic crisis from a cultural perspective in the Arts, film, literature, journalism, as well as the linguistic, socio-economic, political, community, or other, dimensions.

Areas of interest would include, but are not limited to:

The role of emerging social movements in shaping alternative discourses.

The mutation of millenarist or War on terror discourses to collude with institutional narratives about the crisis.

The resurgence of popular genres (catastrophe, terror, science fiction, children’s tales) as symptom of social unrest and instability.

Discourses of realism and reality as opposed to narrativization.

The language of the media and politics in dealing with the crisis.

The representation of the economic crisis as trauma.

Contributions of approx. 7000 words should be sent to the Editors, either as an attachment to:

Articles in English:

Jose R. Prado

(prado /at/ ang.uji.es) <mailto:(prado /at/ ang.uji.es)>

or through the OJS platform in which the journal is included.

http://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/clr

Deadline for submissions: 30 October, 2013.

For any questions or queries regarding this call for papers or the journal, please do not hesitate to contact the Editors.

Jose R. Prado

(prado /at/ ang.uji.es) <mailto:(prado /at/ ang.uji.es)>



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