[ecrea] CFP: _Critical Arts_ Special Issue: “Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle”

      CFP:/Critical Arts/ Special Issue 17/11/2017; 01/05/2018


      “Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle”

Guest editors: Prof. Louise Bethlehem, The European Research Council 
Project APARTHEID-STOPS,


            Dr. Tal Zalmanovich, The European Research Council Project
            APARTHEID-STOPS.

Dear Colleagues


We invite submissions to a special issue of /Critical Arts: South-North 
Cultural and Media Studies/ focusing on the role of celebrities and 
celebrity culture in the anti-apartheid struggle. In contrast to the 
resolutely Northern or metropolitan orientation of the existing 
scholarship on celebrity culture and political protest, we seek to 
broaden the conversation both in terms of location and the range of 
topics. So for example, we ask how developments in mass media, travel 
and information technology as well as technologies of circulation 
intersected with celebrity engagement in the anti-apartheid struggle as 
a particularly intense arena of engagement.

In addition to scholarship focusing on celebrities from the 
entertainment industry, we invite proposals that adopt a broader 
perspective that sees politicians, clergymen, journalists and activists 
as celebrities, even if at a different level of resolution. We welcome 
papers that examine both celebrated figures who harnessed their star 
power to the cause, as well as those whose work in the struggle against 
apartheid turned them into celebrities.

Although the neoliberal narrative of celebrity prevalent today pivots 
around the achievements of singular individuals, we aim to open the 
discussion to more networked stories of collaboration and solidarity. 
This also entails a transnational dimension. We ask contributors to 
consider the international and transnational networks and institutions 
that underpin celebrity protest and solidarity. Authors are encouraged 
to think about African, Asian, Soviet, and non-Western celebrities and 
their investment in or contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle.

What can be said of the temporality of these transnational engagements? 
Is there room to challenge the established chronology of celebrity and 
humanitarian celebrity-advocacy as only becoming widespread from the 
1980s onwards?

Lastly, we also solicit papers that explore the more conflicted nature 
of celebrity involvement: Did celebrities from the North (or elsewhere) 
succeed in their quest to draw attention to the social evils of 
apartheid or did they divert attention away from the daily acts of 
violence and suffering of the constituencies they sought to represent by 
focusing attention on themselves as individuals? Did this deflect agency 
from activists on the ground and silence voices from the South?

For a list of possible themes, see here. 
<https://apartheidstops.wixsite.com/celebrityandprotest>

We invite scholars from a variety of disciplines (history, literature, 
sociology, ethnography, musicology, philosophy, literature, theology, 
art etc.) to apply. Applicants are requested to send in an abstract of 
their research project (up to 1000 words) and a short CV by 17 November 
2017.

Accepted papers will be submitted as a special issue to /Critical Arts/: 
a peer-reviewed journal. Authors should note that /Critical Arts/ is 
niched within the South-North-East-West nexus. Articles should be 
written with a global readership in mind. All proposals should be 
referenced in Chicago style and use UK English spelling. Full 
manuscripts will be between 5000 – 7000 words and must be submitted by 1 
May 2018. See the submission form here 
<https://apartheidstops.wixsite.com/celebrityandprotest> for further 
details.

All submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process.

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*“Celebrity and Protest in Africa and in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle” 
Workshop*

Contributors are invited to participate in an international workshop 
“Celebrity and Protest in Africa and in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle” at 
the University of Copenhagen which will take place between 29-31 
October, 2018. The workshop is a joint collaboration between The 
European Research Council Project APARTHEID-STOPS, “The Perception of 
Apartheid in Western Europe 1960-1990” Research Cluster, and the Centre 
of African Studies of the University of Copenhagen.


      Details regarding the workshop are available here
      <https://apartheidstops.wixsite.com/celebrityworkshop>.



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*Department of English & Program in Cultural Studies*
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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"Apartheid--The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in 
Transnational Circulation, 1948-1990" | 
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*Visiting Senior Fellow*, School of Literature, Language and Media, 
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