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[ecrea] CfS: MeCCSA PGN 2017 Conference: Borders and Boundaries

Wed Mar 01 15:24:18 GMT 2017





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*Call for Submissions - MeCCSA PGN Conference 2017*
*Borders and Boundaries: Territories, Technologies, Transgressions*

Date: June 26-27, 2017

*Venue: Goldsmiths College, London *

DEADLINE for abstracts: March 21, 2017

Confirmed keynotes speakers: *Prof Natalie Fenton* (Goldsmiths, MeCCSA chair), *Prof Jeremy Gilbert* (University of East London), *Prof* *Sue Clayton* (Goldsmiths), *Dr Myria Georgiou* (LSE)

Our world is in the grip of a series of interrelated crises, many of which involve the creation, collapse and reconstitution of borders and boundaries - territorial (the “refugee crisis”, new forms of extractive neo-colonialism), socio-spatial (urban restructuring, segregation and displacement,) political (Brexit, Trump, the rise of the far-right globally) and personal (self-tracking, automated surveillance and digital labour). Even as some borders appear weakened due to technological change and the increased fluidity of social identities, new boundaries around national identity and ethnicity are erected in their place. The fracturing of the neoliberal consensus since 2008 has challenged conceptual boundaries relating to the economy, society and the role of the state, but no coherent alternative set of ideas has yet become apparent, let alone dominant. In Gramsci’s words, “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”

*Borders and Boundaries: Territories, Technologies, Transgressions* locates itself in this historical moment, seeking to explore the forces of deterritorialization and reterritorialization active in this conjuncture. This conference - organised by postgraduate students from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Goldsmiths College - seeks to disrupt and destabilise boundaries while creating productive border­-zones where cultures and disciplines can interact. We invite academics, students, activists, artists and other interested people to submit proposals on a wide variety of themes related to the conference title including, but not limited to:


* ***Ideologies and hegemonies: techniques and practices of power (including: development and reproduction of dominant media narratives; statecraft; othering and erection of conceptual borders; participation as collusion and co-optation)

* ***Oppositional communicative practices:participation, protest and rebellion: (including: established and alternative forms of participation; the capacity of technologies to break boundaries and challenge hierarchies; social movement and protest politics)

* ***Alternative and community media practices: transgressions and challenges: (including: media and communicative practices of oppressed and marginalised groups; creation, disruption, rearticulation and reconstitution of personal and collective identities)

* ***Altered media landscapes: political economies and technological change (including: the impact of new media on hierarchies and modalities of media power; changing political economies of data, digital infrastructure and mass media)

* ***The politics of the sensory: modes and modalities of communication *(including; sensory technologies and methodologies; the internet and visual communication; transgressive and oppositional practice in arts; non-linguistic communication in mass media)


Submissions can be works in progress, provocative ideas or engaging questions as well as completed research in the form of papers, mini-documentaries, posters, displays or other formats. We welcome submissions from inside and outside the UK. Limited travel grants are available - see website for details.

To submit an abstract for the conference please visit our website at meccsapgn2017.com/submissions <http://meccsapgn2017.com/submissions>, where you will find details of the different possible options for submission. The deadline to fill in the submissions form is *March 21, 2017*. Those invited to present will be notified by early April.
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