[ecrea] CFP : "Communicative forms and practices of nostalgia: conceptual, critical and historical perspectives"

*CALL FOR PAPERS - 1st International Media and Nostalgia Network 
Conference – IMNN

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*"Nostalgia ...Again? Communicative forms and practices of nostalgia: 
conceptual, critical and historical perspectives" ***
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*Södertörn University (Sweden, Stockholm) - November 8th to 9th 2018*

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The start of the 21st century is marked by a persistence of nostalgic 
feelings; there is a lasting tendency in politics, culture, and the 
entertainment industry to use nostalgia as a tool to engage people in 
voting, buying, consuming, and “productively” participating in 
societies, in both Western countries and across the world. Yet thinking 
of nostalgia only as a top-down phenomenon does not encompass either the 
dynamics of its circulation or its significance in contemporary 
mediatized societies. Nostalgia has also become deeply anchored in 
people´s everyday lives. Not only are contemporary media users the 
targets of nostalgia-evoking communication by societal actors, 
institutions, and organizations, they increasingly contribute to a 
bottom-up communication of nostalgia through various creative 
media-related practices. How and where these different modes and forms 
of nostalgia relate to, oppose, or reinforce each other are questions 
that traditional conceptualizations and explanations of nostalgia no 
longer seem to satisfy.
The first IMNN conference aims to critically investigate the 
contemporary epistemology and ontology of nostalgia by providing new 
perspectives, theories, and research methods. The ambition is to inform 
our understanding of the numerous contexts that have been, currently 
are, and might become relevant for understanding nostalgia, while at the 
same time discussing the significance of media and communication in 
these changing contexts on a local, transnational, and global scale.
In the last few years, scholars have observed an increasing interest in 
nostalgia. This not only seems to indicate a fascination with nostalgia 
itself, but also an awareness that nostalgia might be highly relevant 
for media scholars’ attempts to explain our relationship with the past, 
present, and future. However, despite a half century long tradition of 
nostalgia research, the abundance of literature on the topic, and 
evident advancements, the field still lacks a thorough integration of 
the conditions that shape and change the ways in which nostalgia is 
/salient/ today. This may be due to the use of methods which fail to 
acknowledge the dialectical relationship between nostalgia and media, or 
the ease with which existing definitions of nostalgia have been accepted 
without interrogation. It may also be due to the sliding significance of 
the term “nostalgia” itself, and our subsequent failure to recognize the 
myriad phenomena that fall under its umbrella.
We invite scholars and professionals to examine nostalgia critically, in 
order to reveal aspects that might have been disregarded, misunderstood, 
forgotten, or ignored in the past. The conference also encourages 
historical perspectives shining light on shifting features of nostalgia 
over time, to start a conversation that will take us beyond what have 
become our unchallenged and unquestioned premises. Together, we want to 
move past the oversimplifications of nostalgia that have proven 
inadequate for the questions we are facing in mediatized societies.
We welcome submissions on the following themes:
/Media, communication and nostalgia/

  * Nostalgia and (digital) communication
  * Media and mediated nostalgia
  * Mediatization of nostalgia and self-nostalgizing media
  * Nostalgia as communicative practice and/or communicative strategy
  * Datafication and nostalgia

/Theoretical approaches and conceptual boundaries/

  * Epistemology and ontology of nostalgia
  * History of nostalgia research
  * Archeology of nostalgia
  * Nostalgia and memory
  * Retro and vintage
  * Nostalgia and other feelings: melancholia, solastalgia, culture of
    loss and despair
  * Nostalgia and Utopia/Dystopia
  * Contradictions, paradoxes and dilemmas of nostalgia

/Geographies of nostalgia/

  * De-westernized nostalgia
  * Local, regional, national, transnational, and global nostalgia
  * Spaces, scales and times of nostalgia

/Politics of nostalgia/

  * Political uses of nostalgia (propaganda)
  * Nostalgia and ideology
  * Nostalgia and migration
  * Nostalgia and identity
  * Institutionalization of nostalgic cultures and of the past (museums,
    monuments) Communities of nostalgia

/Economies of nostalgia /

  * Commodification of nostalgia
  * Retro gaming and retro cultures
  * Fetish and vintage
  * Autotelic nostalgias
  * Nostalgia industries
  * Advertising and marketing
  * Tourism and gastronomy

*Submission guidelines*
Please send an abstract of up to 500 words (including a clear 
explanation of the theoretical and/or methodological approach), a 
bibliography, and a short bio to (medianostalgianetwork /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(medianostalgianetwork /at/ gmail.com)> before *March 15, 2018.*
*Important dates : *
*March 15, 2018: Abstract submission deadline*
*May 15, 2018: Notification of acceptance*
*September 1, 2018: Full paper due*
*November 8-9, 2018: IMNN Conference in Stockholm*
*Conference conveners:*Ekaterina Kalinina (Södertörn University, 
Sweden), Emmanuelle Fantin (Sorbonne Université, France), Manuel Menke 
(Augsburg University, Germany), Katharina Niemeyer (University of Quebec 
in Montreal, Canada)


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