[ecrea] Call of Articles: "Hearts and Minds": US Cultural Management in Foreign Relations in the 21st Century

This is a call for an edited book collection. New deadline abstracts 15 
June 2014

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Title: "Hearts and Minds": US Cultural Management in Foreign Relations 
in the 21st Century

Editor: Matthew Chambers, University of Lodz

Publisher: Peter Lang (American Studies and Media Series)

The phrase “hearts and minds” has widely circulated since 2001 in the 
context of American foreign policy and military strategy. Far from being 
an empty slogan, “hearts and minds” has emerged as a widespread way of 
thinking about America’s relations throughout the globe. While it has 
retained its militaristic association, it has extended out into other 
sectors such as cultural programs as well as NGO involvement in relief, 
infrastructure-rebuilding, and educational efforts. The question becomes 
to what extent can we frame the intent and consequences of this term as 
a coherent policy? How does it reflect an exceptionalist attitude, in 
the sense of the drive to manage the global terrain as the 
non-exceptional Other? How can we think about foreign policy strategies 
that implicitly or explicitly involve the management of “cross-cultural” 
relations? And finally, how do affects, as underlying the slogan “hearts 
and minds,” enable ideologies that frame cultural management in foreign 
relations?

This CFP accepts writing that addresses political and cultural efforts 
to frame, manage, and administer America’s interests throughout the 
globe. Essays that incorporate more recent affect theory evaluations 
will be particularly welcome. Of specific interest are works that focus 
on the following:

*The cultural turn of the US military (COIN, Human Terrain Systems, etc.)
*USAID & NGO involvement/Embassy “missions” (especially cultural 
attaches/American Corner, and other such cultural outreach programs)
*Academic institutions (Fulbright, Rhodes, and other like scholarships; 
American University and other like academic institutions)
*Affect theory approaches to governance
* Feminist approaches to NGOs and other like cultural programs and/or 
the impact of such programs on institutions of gender
* Counter-narratives from the perspective of recipients of American aid 
or development programs

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract with brief bio and institutional 
affiliation by 15 June 2014 to Matthew Chambers ((mjc6 /at/ buffalo.edu)). 
Papers for accepted proposals should be ready for submission by Fall 2014.

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