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[ecrea] CFP - Film/Screen/Visual Studies Focus - 'The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism'

Tue Feb 12 06:42:16 GMT 2013






The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (publishing: 2014)



A definitive project of 750,000 words – 250+ entries averaging 3,000 words – with contributions by leading academic specialists from throughout the world



General Editors: Immanuel Ness and Saër Maty Bâ




Dear ECREA Members,





Following our first call for essays, we are currently seeking further contributions on topics listed below. We anticipate that essays should be between 3,000 - 4,000 words long – including notes, a bibliography, and captions for any illustration/s. The due date for these essays is: June 21st, 2013.





Topics





§ Anti-imperialist resistance and/in the cinema



- For example, ‘anti-imperialist resistance’ as spurred by: national self-determination, and/or continental unity against the oppressor, and/or religious visions, and/or the longing for imaginary/re-imagined communities; AND/OR ‘anti-imperialist resistance’ as carried out by: communist guerrillas, and/or religious fanatics, and/or liberals, and/or intellectuals, and/or activists.





§ Cinema, free-markets, and ‘new’ imperialisms (within and across borders)





§ Extremes of imperialism and/in the cinema



- ‘Extremes of imperialism’ may include (but are not be limited to) resorting to ethnic cleansing and genocide (for the purpose of settling new lands).





§ Film archives and ‘empire’/ imperial film archives





§ Film festivals, imperialism and/or anti-imperialism





§ Forces of imperialism and/in the cinema



- ‘Forces of imperialism’ may include (but are not limited to): disrupting customary political orders and socioeconomic activities; prohibiting old traditions and imposing new customs; dislocating inhabitants from their communities and, in some instances, settling and occupying territories.





§ (The) Media and anti-imperialist enterprises



- Contributors may choose to focus on: theorists and activists, and/or spontaneous uprisings, and/or organized revolutionary strategies, among other topics.





§ Understanding histories of imperialism (from 1776 onwards) through Film/Screen/Visual Cultures and Studies





- Contributors may choose to focus on: prominent themes, and/or epochal events, and/or theoretical explanations, and/or historical accounts.







Interested colleagues should forward to the general editors, an abridged CV clearly stating their research interests and output, as well as current institutional affiliation (as applicable).



All essays will clearly lay out the topic, provide historical context and apply a relevant analytic viewpoint, and will include a short bibliography. Contributors to The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism should also apply relevant analytic viewpoints as most scholarly books would do. We intend the essays in the work to go beyond description to an analysis of the major currents in each of the topics. In this respect, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism is a scholarly-reference work. Scholarly-reference counts for academic purposes equivalently to almost all refereed journal articles.



Contributor’s names will be listed prominently below the title of essays with the biography in the beginning of the work. The same version of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism will appear in hard copy and online.



Please note that contributors who wish to include ‘Third Party’ materials – such as photographs, pictures, drawings, tables, maps, graphs – must obtain necessary consents, licenses and/or permissions. The link about using ‘Third Party’ material, which includes the guidelines and useful tips and a permission tracker document, is:

http://www.palgrave.com/authors/process.asp#permissions



Palgrave Macmillan provides contributors to The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism with the following benefits:



* a copy of their final typeset article for use on institution listservs
* the opportunity to purchase The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-imperialism for the contributor’s own personal use at a discount of 50% on the retail price.


(Unfortunately, due to budget restrictions we are unable to offer payment to contributors.)


Kindly find below a brief description of the project, and a list of Editorial Advisory Committee members.



With thanks, best regards and wishes,



Saër Maty Bâ, PhD

General Editor

(drsaerba1 /at/ gmail.com)



Immanuel Ness, PhD

General Editor

(iness /at/ brooklyn.cuny.edu)



The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism





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ABOUT THE EDITORS





Immanuel Ness is a professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and the author of numerous works on immigration, social and political movements and worker organizations. He is author of Immigrants, Unions, and the New US Labor Market (2005) and Guest Workers and Resistance to US Corporate Despotism (2011) and Migration in a World of Inequality (forthcoming ). He is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration with Alex Julca (2013), and editor of the peer-reviewed journal WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society. He is working on forthcoming books, including one on film, labour and migration with Saër Maty Bâ.





Saër Maty Bâ has taught film studies, and visual culture, at the universities of Bangor, East London, Portsmouth, Exeter, and St Andrews (UK). His research blurs boundaries between diaspora, film, media, and cultural studies. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as Transnational Cinemas, Studies in Documentary Film, Film International, Cultural Studies Review, Culture Machine, and Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies (forthcoming). He is co-editor of: Re-presenting Diasporas in Cinema and New (Digital) Media/Special issue of Journal of Media Practice (Vol. 11 Issue 1, 2010); Media(te) Migrations and Migrant(s’) Disciplines: Contrasting Approaches to Crossings/Special issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (Vol. 3 Issue 2, 2012); and the book De-Westernizing Film Studies (2012). He is associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013) and editorial board member of the peer-reviewed journal WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society. He is working on forthcoming books, including one on film, labour and migration with Immanuel Ness.





BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT



The forthcoming The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (2014) is a definitive project of 750,000 words – 250+ entries averaging 3,000 words – with, already, contributions by leading academic specialists from throughout the world. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism will be a scholarly reference work that will include the most current literature on the subject. The project will have a broad readership attracting academics and graduate and upper-level undergraduate students studying imperialism and anti-imperialism across the globe. It will also be peer-reviewed by a host of leading scholars spanning the academic disciplines.





LIST OF EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS



§ Mr John Akomfrah OBE, Filmmaker and Theorist (Smoking Dogs Films) London, UK

§ Dr Vian T. Bakir, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University, Wales, UK

§ Prof. Walden Bello, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, USA

§ Dr Yifen T. Beus, School of International Cultural Studies and Languages, Brigham Young University, HAWA‘I

§ Dr Richard Bradbury, Writer/Lecturer/Activist, The Open University, UK

§ Prof. Stephen E. Bronner, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA

§ Dr Claudio Canaparo, Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Birkbeck College (University of London); Professeur attaché à la recherche, Université catholique de Louvain, UK/BELGIUM

§ Dr Rajinder Dudrah, Department of Drama / Centre for Screen Studies, University of Manchester, UK

§ Dr Bill Fletcher, Jr., Institute for Policy Studies, USA

§ Dr Patti Gaal-Holmes, Artist/Filmmaker and Historian, Portsmouth, UK

§ Prof. Graeme Harper, Director, The Honors College, Oakland University, USA

§Dr Winston Mano, Director, Africa Media Centre; Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, UK

§ Dr Martin Mhando, School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University, AUSTRALIA

§ Dr Sheila Petty, Dean of Fine Arts, University of Regina, CANADA

§ Dr Elena Pollacchi, Chinese Studies, Stockholm University, SWEDEN

§ Dr Gavin Schaffer, Department of History, University of Birmingham, UK

§ Dr Ousmane Sène, The West African Research Centre; and Cheikh Anta Diop University (English), SENEGAL

§ Dr Ashwani Sharma, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London, UK

§ Dr Marcel Stoetzler, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, UK

§ Prof. Keyan Tomaselli, Director, Centre for Cultural and Media Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

§ Dr Valentina Vitali, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London, UK

§ Prof. Michael Wayne, Department of Film and TV Studies, Brunel University, UK

§ Prof. Cornel West, The Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, USA

§ Prof. Patrick Williams, College of Arts and Science, Nottingham Trent University, UK



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