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[ecrea] CFP: Who sets the Public Agenda? The Cultural and Creative Industries in the era of populism

Tue Apr 24 18:51:01 GMT 2018




*CFP: Who sets the Public Agenda? The Cultural and Creative Industries in the era of populism
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The intense and accelerated political shifts that have marked the global political landscape in recent years have been met with a rise of voices from the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). Celebrities, singers, actors and industry representatives have spoken out against—or for—the rise of far-right and conservative leaderships encouraging people to incite social and political change. For example, this has been visible from mainstream movie stars and pop singers bandying together (‘Holy sh*t (You’ve got to vote)’, ‘I will survive’); grime artists backing #Grime4Corbyn to remixers like Cassetteboy; celebrities standing against Trump (Save the Day, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Jesse Williams, etc.); César Awards, l’ARP, and Luc Besson, the French filmmaker, standing against Le Pen and supporting Macron; Podemos using music and the discourses of Game of Thrones during their campaign; Italy’s Five Star Movement being started by a popular comedian and blogger; Syriza being supported by a number of creative industries’ unions before their election in 2015; game developers producing games that deal with contentious issues that ignite social change, to name only a few examples. The convergence of these diverse populist tactics in the CCIs has created new modalities, leading to a point whereby CCIs are more than ever shaping the public agenda. The multi-dimensional role the CCIs play in ‘going political’, as well as the ways that this is shaping current political movements, warrants further academic attention.

We invite working papers for a one-day workshop held on *Friday 8th June 2018* at the /Idea Store in Whitechapel/, London, which aims to explore the links between recent modes of populism and the cultural and creative industries.
Topics could include but are not limited to:
• Commodifying resistance
• Political consumerism
• Corporate activism
• Celebrity activism
• Grenfell and grime
• Hollywood and Trump
• Games4change
• Representing social inequalities
• Representing and producing woke nation
• Cultural and creative industries and populism
• Histories of the cultural and creative industries and populism

Please send a short bio and a 100 word abstracts to /(photini.vrikki /at/ brunel.ac.uk) <mailto:(photini.vrikki /at/ brunel.ac.uk)>,/ /(sara.debenedictis /at/ brunel.ac.uk) <mailto:(sara.debenedictis /at/ brunel.ac.uk)> /and /(mariza.dima /at/ brunel.ac.uk)/ <mailto:(mariza.dima /at/ brunel.ac.uk)> by *14th May*.
Notifications of acceptance: *25th May*.
/This workshop offers a small budget for ECR travel. If you would like to be considered for a travel bursary please indicate it in your bio./
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