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[ecrea] CFP Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier

Tue Feb 17 18:39:20 GMT 2015



EXTENDED DEADLINE: CFP Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier: Critical Pedagogies in 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 identity and value proposition in a competitive market, policies and practices designed to “protect” those brands, and increased reliance on capital campaigns in the face of governmental austerity measures. As crystalized powerfully by the Salaita case, academic freedom no longer provides a sufficient counter-balance to these forces of corporatization.

At the same time as these larger institutional forces work against close examinations of power and systemic inequality, professors committed to these issues are increasingly likely to find their pedagogies challenged from below by students. On the one hand, challenges come from students with reactionary politics or those who do not want to confront their own privilege. On the other hand, challenges also come from students who have themselves been traumatized by systems of oppression. Prominent debates over “trigger warnings,” for instance, speak to fundamental tensions we must now 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 with graphic images that 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 on critical media pedagogies in neoliberal times. Specifically, we are looking for essays that reflect on how we might navigate the myriad forces of neoliberalism impinging on our classrooms. How can we constitute our media/cultural studies classrooms 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 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/ allegheny.edu) <mailto:(cbailey /at/ allegheny.edu)>) and Julie Wilson ((jwilson /at/ allegheny.edu) <mailto:(jwilson /at/ allegheny.edu)>) by February 23th. Completed essays (including all images and links) will be due on May 1st.

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Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
Managing Editor, /Film Criticism/
Allegheny College
520 N Main St., Meadville, PA 16335
tel: 814-332-2307, web: http://joetompkins.wordpress.com/

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