[ecrea] Pirating the Popular conf, Stockholm, Sept 13-14

http://pcwp6.jmk.su.se/conferences/3-pcwp/about#.UcgwNLTrZSU

Call for Papers

Abstracts should be submitted (toabstractspcwp /at/ statsvet.su.se).

Please indicate in the subject box in your email message "Abstract for 
PCWP". This will ensure proper handling of your abstract.

Deadlines:
Paper abstracts: June 7, 2013.
Notification of abstract acceptance July 1, 2013.
Suggested Themes

    * Media Witnessing
    * Performing the Visual in Public Spaces
    * Death in the Media: Violence, Consolation and Captivation
    * Transnational News and Popular Culture
    * Cultural journalism and world politics
    * Non-Western Popular Cultures and non-Western-centric World Politics
    * Music and Politics
    * Methodological approaches to popular culture and world politics
    * The politics of the culture industries and governance
    * The transnational implications of the diffused audience, fandom 
and consumer resistance
    * Performances, presentations, screenings: Producing world politics 
in cultural forms:
    * Social media activism and politicotainment

About the conference

The study of world politics and popular culture is now an established 
area of interest for many disciplines in the social sciences, humanities 
and the arts. Popular culture relates to contemporary politics in 
numerous ways: It can offer expression that soothes and humours the 
soul. It can satirize and play off cultural resonance to resist powerful 
or repressive forces. And it can stimulate political or community 
engagement, as demonstrated clearly in the role that music and 
performative satire played in the Arab Uprisings and in the Occupy 
activities around the world.

This conference addresses the multiple ways in which popular culture 
engages with world affairs. It takes as its starting point the 
observation that we live in an age of interregnum - a time where the old 
institutions and old rules no longer function sufficiently and new ones 
have not yet taken their place. Ours is an age where processes of 
globalisation are contributing to the ‘divorce’ of politics from power, 
resulting in what Zygmunt Bauman identifies as a ‘liquid modernity’ of 
endemic uncertainty.’ This uncertainty about authority and 
interpretation - compounded by ubiquitous connectivity and audio-visual 
media - gives rise to power struggles, problematizes the ability to 
judge relationships between cause and effect, provides new opportunities 
for political engagement and changes the foundations on which authority 
rests.

Hosting this conference in Stockholm seems particularly timely given 
Sweden’s various, if not contradictory, interventions in the ambiguous 
world of popular culture: from the foundation of The Pirate Bay to the 
Wikileaks case, from a culture of ‘free viewing’ to Spotify’s corporate 
entrepreneurialism, from strongholds in Marxist media theory to 
Facebook’s Swedish server farms, and many more.

The general theme Pirating the Popular covers a broad range of practices 
concerning the complex, dubious and dynamic nature of popular culture in 
world politics. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, performances 
and screenings addressing the many different aspects of world politics 
and popular culture that are evoked by the metaphor of piracy.
Conference conveners

Michele Micheletti (Lars Hierta chair of political science)
(michele.micheletti /at/ statsvet.su.se)

Kristina Riegert (Professor of Media and Communication Studies)
(kristina.maj.riegert /at/ ims.su.se)



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