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[ecrea] cfp - The BRICS: a voluntarist and uncertain vision / Recognition, transformation and shared space

Wed Apr 19 13:15:33 GMT 2017



*The BRICS: a voluntarist and uncertain vision. *

*Recognition, transformation and shared space.*

*Special issue of Hermes, French leading journal in Communication studies *

After having been over-determined by the economy, the BRICS have become another grouping, bringing together contradictions and values. How can these politically and culturally heterogeneous five countries structure this union? Do the BRICS form a new political and communicational space or are they just simply an alliance of States – due to the great divergence of their interests – built around occasional agreements? Are they simply a representation? From the viewpoint of communication, how to share values in the face of practices that come into contradiction with them? Despite all these difficulties, divergences and oppositions, how can we explain what holds this disparate grouping together and moves it forward. What are the constructive forces, the centripetal and centrifugal forces that cross each of these countries and the grouping?

The BRICS are in a situation of non-communication, which leads us to ask ourselves how can a political bring these countries together? Despite such voluntarism, which is questioned, to develop projects with regards the West, however the idea seems to encounter difficulties. The problematic, which is doubly communicational, articulates representation, politics and social relations, in an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.

The issue explores discourse and public space of the BRICS, their actions and internal tensions, the vision developed in other countries and the limits and the powers that actors must confront. The editors invite the authors to identify the contradictions, the strengths and weaknesses of the project and of the reality of the BRICS.


*LIU Chang *(CUC, Beijing), *Tom Dwyer *(Unicamp, São Paulo), *Michaël Oustinoff* (University of Nice).*Supervisor**: Olivier Arifon*(Université libre de Bruxelles).

Publication planned for December 2017: n°79, papers to be turned in by end of June 2017.

The articles should be between 15,000 and 20,000 characters, with bibliography and spaces included. Shorter texts, between 4 and 8 thousand characters can be proposed- these should allow to ask some questions, to give some clues for reflection, to supply an insight based in historical or comparative observations.

More on the journal: http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/handle/2042/8538. *Translation in French will be provided.*

Send your proposal to Tom Dwyer ((tomdwyer /at/ terra.com.br)) <mailto:(tomdwyer /at/ terra.com.br)%29>and Olivier Arifon ((Olivier.arifon /at/ ulb.ac.be)) <mailto:(Olivier.arifon /at/ ulb.ac.be)%29>under “yourname_Hermes_month_year.doc”

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Bien cordialement
Dr. Olivier Arifon, Consultant and Master trainer on « Influence, lobbying and communication » and « Soft power and diplomacy »,
Research fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles.

Tel 0032470624146
Skype : oarifon
be.linkedin.com/in/olivierarifon


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