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

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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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