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NECSUS

Autumn 2016_‘Home’

Call for submissions

Every day thousands of people leave their home, fleeing the terror of
war, extremism, and poverty, searching for a new place to live, a roof
above their heads. The official institutions of the European Union are
cracking under the public reactions to the so-called ‘refugee crisis’,
while many of the populations of the constituent nations appear divided
between a pragmatic will to help and xenophobic defense reflexes. As
border controls within Europe are being reinstated as emergency
measures, people seem to be divided by the questions and problems raised
for national security, identity, and feeling ‘at home’. This current
wave of migration from war zones in the Middle East and Africa makes the
question of ‘home’ an urgent problem that we want to address in the
Autumn 2016 special section of NECSUS.

We would like to investigate the relation between the question of home
and the media, both in light of the migration crisis and in a more broad
historical and theoretical perspective. Home is a concept that has been
crucial in many fields of inquiry such as investigations of
transnational media practices, considerations of diaspora and homeland,
and particular generic and formal configurations (the German
/Heimat/-film, the melodrama and its focus on the domestic sphere), as
examples. The media has also played a crucial role in the construction
of belonging and identity, both for the individual and for larger groups
such as families, diasporic communities, and nations. The home has also
been a place of shifting patterns of media consumption, from radio and
television as technologies centered on domestic environments to upgrades
in home entertainment systems as crucial markers of the reconfigurations
of cinema in the age of digital networks. In this sense, the home as
constructed and questioned through images, texts, and sounds is a
central topic of audiovisual media. In the metaphor of the homepage, the
Internet has also appropriated this sense of origin and affiliation for
its own purposes. The home delivery of content through online channels
is perhaps the key issue for media conglomerates worldwide.

We invite contributions for the Autumn 2016 special section of NECSUS on
(but not limited to) the following topics:

# social media and migration (Facebook and other online ‘home communities’)

# accented cinema

# video letters and the epistolary genre in visual art

# home movies and videos

# music videos and songs of the homeland

# melodrama’s mise-en-scene of the home and the /Heimat/-film

# political documentaries about migration

# films and television series that question (or reaffirm) the ‘homeland’

# meta-reflections on the role of media in relation to the nation-state,
imaginary communities, and historical movements of migration

# media that reinforce the home(land) as being under constant stress and
pressure

# home and the global city in film, television, and installation art

# the homepage and home entertainment systems

We look forward to receiving abstracts of 300 words, 3-5 bibliographic
references, and a short biography of 100 words by 29 February 2016 at
the following address: (g.decuir /at/ aup.nl) <mailto:(g.decuir /at/ aup.nl)>. On the
basis of selected abstracts writers will be invited to submit full
manuscripts (5,000-7,000 words, revised abstract, 4-5 keywords) in July,
which will subsequently go through a double-blind peer review process.

NECSUS also accepts abstract submissions on a rolling basis throughout
the year for a wide variety of articles on a number of themes related to
media studies, in addition to proposals for festival, exhibition, and
book reviews, as well as audiovisual essays. Please note that we do not
accept full manuscripts for consideration without an invitation. Access
our submission guidelines at
http://www.necsus-ejms.org/guidelines-for-submission/.



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