[ecrea] Call for Papers: The Working Group on Culture and War, Cultural Studies Association (US).

*Call for Papers: The Working Group on Culture and War, Cultural Studies
Association (US).*

The Working Group on War and Culture of the Cultural Studies Association
invites both general and themed submissions for the 14th meeting of the
Cultural Studies Association (US) at Villanova University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 2-5 June, 2016.

_General Call_: We invite interdisciplinary papers that consider the
cultural, economic and political landscape of warfare, including issues
such as the role of gender in military organization; the impact of war
on the environment; ethnographic descriptions of warscape (refugee
camps, military bases, life under occupation); representations of war in
news and social media; the memorialization of war;veterans’ issues,
including post-deployment experiences and programs; PTSD prevention,
treatment, and representation; the experiences of military families; and
the political economy of war, including military labor,
privatization/subcontracting, and the embedment/deploymentof national
militaries within international cultural, economic, and political
formations.

_Theme Call_: Consonant with this year’s conference theme, “Policing
Crises Now,” the Working Group invites interdisciplinary papers
theorizing the role of ongoing crises in the mobilization and
maintenance of military interventions past, present, and future.
Proposals might address questions such as, how should our current
understanding of policing crises inform anti-war education and/or enable
activism? How have decades of asymmetrical warfare and internationalized
“nation building” incrementally and practically altered traditional
distinctions between policing and war, at home and abroad? How does
“warspeak” drive voter perception of foreign, immigration, and refugee
policy in the current US election cycle? What classed and racialized
aspects of crisis emerge at the nexus of war, economics, and policing in
the Global South as well as North?All papers addressing the intersection
of militarization and policing will be considered.

Deadline for proposals is Feb. 1, 2016. Please include: a. your name,
email address, department, and institutional affiliation. b. a 500-word
(or less) abstract for the 20-minute paper proposed, including a paper
title. c. audio-visual equipment needs (no requests for AV equipment can
be honored later).

Please send all required information to the Chair of the Working Group
on War and Culture: Howard Hastings at (aspinozist /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(aspinozist /at/ gmail.com)>. Additional information about the CSA
meetings can be found at: http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org



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