[ecrea] Selfie Citizenship “pocket book”: Call for Contributions

*Selfie Citizenship “pocket book”: Call for Contributions
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st July 2015*

Following the highly successful “Selfie Citizenship” workshop, held in
Manchester in April 2015, contributions are invited to the Selfie
Citizenship “pocket book” edited for Palgrave Pivot (a new initiative by
Palgrave Macmillan for fast dissemination of fully peer-reviewed
research on current matters). We invite conceptual, empirical or
creative interventions, of 3-5,000 words maximum, that contribute to the
intellectual and political conversation around the notion of selfie
citizenship, at the intersection of politics, visual culture, social and
digital media, and cultural and social studies of citizenship.

*Background*
In the recent years we have become accustomed to photographs of
individuals with hand-written banners, as well as to various selfie
memes and hashtag actions, spread on social media as actions of protest
and political or social statements. Their circulation is global, and
their iconography is often deceivingly similar, yet their motivations,
causes and context vary – some stand against police abuse or military
occupation, others call for clearer cities or smaller classrooms, yet
others promote a charity cause or a social awareness, and there are
those that incite violence or call for a war. While some perform
citizenship as a form of nationalism, other mobilise notions of global
citizenship, and yet others operate in contexts where citizenship is
absent, in question or violently denied.

Such mobilisation of the selfie genre – understood broadly as
self-portraits in viral digital circulation –challenges the prevalent
popular view of selfies as narcissistic, inherently a-political and even
anti-social. Yet selfie citizenship -- as a political, affective, visual
and networked phenomenon, as a performance and a social and aesthetic
practice-- still remains to be theorised, both as a framework for
different understanding of selfies, and as a way to think differently
about citizenship in the social media age.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to

• “Acts of citizenship” (Isin 2008) and selfie performativity
• Selfies and affective citizenship
• Selfie citizenship and “impossible subjects”
• Selfie actions across borders and contexts
• Biopolitics, necropolitics and selfie protest
• Visibility/invisibility regimes and selfie citizenship
• Selfie citizenship and surveillance
• Selfies and the limits of digital citizenship
• Selfie citizenship and consumerism
• Selfie citizenship and digital labour
• Selfies and “hashtag solidarity” (Mottahedeh 2015)
• Selfie citizenship and algorithms
• Selfie citizenship and biometric governance

*Submission guidelines
*Please submit a 300 word abstract, together with a short bio for each
author,
to Dr Adi Kuntsman (a.kuntsman /at/ mmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.kuntsman /at/ mmu.ac.uk)> ,
by 1st of July 2015. **

*Timeline*
Abstract and bio submission 1 July 2015
Successful contributors notified 15 July 2015
Full chapters submitted and sent
to peer review 1 October 2015
Revised chapter submission 31 January 2016
Publication June 2016

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