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[ecrea] CFP Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier: Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times
Thu Jan 08 02:58:16 GMT 2015
CFP Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier: Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal
Times
<http://www.teachingmedia.org/cfp-cinema-journal-teaching-dossier-critical-pedagogies-neoliberal-times/>
Edited by Courtney Bailey and Julie Wilson, Allegheny College
The increasingly corporatized neoliberal university represents an
aggressive threat to critical pedagogies and professors who resist the
“safe spaces” of diversity discourse and actively address systems of
privilege and oppression. On an institutional level, this threat
manifests itself in amplified efforts to build brand value in a
competitive market, policies designed to “protect” those brands, and
increased reliance on capital campaigns in the face of austerity
measures. As crystalized powerfully by the Salaita case, academic
freedom no longer provides a sufficient counter-balance to forces of
corporatization.
At the same time, professors committed to examining power and systemic
inequality are increasingly likely to find their pedagogies challenged
from below by students. On the one hand, these challenges issue from
students with reactionary politics, while on the other hand they also
come from students who have been traumatized by systems of oppression.
Prominent debates over “trigger warnings,” for instance, speak to
fundamental tensions we must navigate: how to teach about the brutal
workings of systemic oppression in a context where neoliberal tenets of
personal responsibility and privatization individualize suffering and
its solutions in ever more insidious ways. Critical media and cultural
studies scholars are poised to feel these tensions even more acutely, as
we often teach discomforting material that is aimed to reflect and make
present the very regimes we hope to disrupt through our critical pedagogies.
For this issue of the Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, we hope to
collect a range of essays that reflect on how we might navigate the
myriad forces of neoliberalism impinging on media studies classrooms.
How can we constitute our classrooms as spaces of resistance in the
context of corporatized education? How do we meet, confront, and/or
disrupt the neoliberal politics of identity that students bring to our
classrooms? What are the specific challenges faced by critical media
instructors today, and how can we productively address these challenges?
We welcome essays focused on specific topics (e.g., trigger warnings)
and/or assignments, other pedagogical approaches/strategies grounded in
particular case studies or contexts, or more theoretically-oriented
contributions. Please submit a 250-word abstract for a proposed
1500-word essay and a 150-word biography to Courtney Bailey
((cbailey /at/ alleghney.edu) <mailto:(cbailey /at/ alleghney.edu)>) and Julie Wilson
((jwilson /at/ allegheny.edu) <mailto:(jwilson /at/ allegheny.edu)>) by February
16th. Completed essays (including all images and links) will be due on
April 17th.
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Julie Ann Wilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts and Theatre
Allegheny College * 520 North Main * Meadville, Pennsylvania 16335
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