[ecrea] CfP Special Issue: Manufacturing Monsters

Please find below the CfP for a special issue on the theme of 
Manufacturing Monsters in the Cultural Sphere in the journal Nordlit.


Nordlit is a fully peer-reviewed open-access journal published by UiT 
Tromsø (Norway)  and Septentrio Academic Publishing.


We accept manuscripts​ of between 6000 and 8000 words written in 
English, German, Swedish, Danish, or Norwegian. Submission deadline: 
June 30, 2018.


See below for further details.


We are looking forward to receiving your submissions.

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Manufacturing Monsters
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Special issue of the journal Nordlit



Guest editors

Juliane Bockwoldt, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Emil Hammar, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Holger Pötzsch, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Christian Beyer, Tromsø



Deadline for submission: June 30, 2018



‘Monsters’ emerge in our collective imaginaries and memories in 
different forms and functions, but a shared characteristic seems to be 
their monolithically evil nature that commonly disallows for contact 
through other than directly violent means. Branding someone or something 
as monstrous often implies that the respective entity can be, and indeed 
often should be, fought under the application of all means available to 
assure the survival of a fragile self in inherently hostile 
environments. As a result, categorizing an opponent as a ‘monster’ is a 
precondition for the justification of war and other violent conduct. As 
such, the social construction, or mediated manufacture, of ‘monsters’ in 
and through cultural expressions matters for issues of politics and 
practice.


Papers submitted to the present special issue should interrogate the 
means through which news, film, television programmes, documentaries, 
video games, and other cultural expressions invite for perceptions of 
particular opponents as monstrous. Articles can conduct formal analyses 
of media representations or direct attention to the socio-economic and 
political contexts of production and reception. We hope to solicit 
strong academic papers that provide new perspectives on the apparently 
timeless theme of the social construction of enemies, othering, and 
propaganda in and through cultural expressions and medial representations.



Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

-	The construction of the other in film and other cultural expressions
-	The manufacture of historical and contemporary enemies in 
documentaries, novels, or history books
-	The role of video games, social media, and online fora in processes of 
othering and ‘enemizing’
-	The ‘monsterization’ of opponents in news and political discourse
-	The role of the political economy in the medial formation of ‘monsters’
-	Processes and practices of ‘de-monsterization’ across genre and media
-	‘Media monsters’ in (media-)historical perspectives
-	The role of technology in the medial production of ‘monsters’
-	The role of ‘monsters’ in political and other conflicts
-	‘Monsters’ and everyday practices
-	Borders, boundaries, and ‘monsters’
-	‘De-monsterization’ and peace
-	‘Monsters’ and memory
-	‘Expertise’ and ‘experts’ as agenda setters
-	The manufacture of ‘worthy and unworthy victims’
-	‘Mainstream media’, ‘monsters’, and ‘fake news’
-	…

We invite submissions on these or related themes of between 6,000 and 
8,000 words written in Danish, English, German, Norwegian, or Swedish.


Please submit a) your fully anonymized manuscript and b) a separate 
title page with personal details to (holger.potzsch /at/ uit.no). Deadline for 
full papers is June 30, 2018.


Please follow the journal’s author guidelines closely when preparing 
your manuscript for submission. The guidelines can be accessed here.


We would be grateful if you could send us title/abstract of your planned 
submission asap. This would make it easier for us to plan the issue as a 
whole.


Each manuscript will be assessed in a thorough double-blind peer-review 
process. Planned publication is Nordlit issue 42 (spring 2019).


Nordlit is a peer-reviewed open-access journal in cultural and literary 
criticism, published by the Department of Language and Culture, UiT The 
Arctic University of Norway, in cooperation with Septentrio Academic 
Publishing. The journal is ranked as a level 1 academic publication 
channel in the Norwegian research database CRISTIN.

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