[ecrea] CFP - Resist! Protest and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era USA

We have extended the deadline for our edited collection on Protest 
and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era USA, and welcome 
your abstracts.


The extended deadline is *25th October.*


  Call for Papers

#Resist: Protest and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era 
USA (edited volume, Rowman and Littlefield)

Editors: Dr Giuliana Monteverde and Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University)

We invite abstracts for chapters that explore protest and resistance in 
relation to Brexit Britain and the Trump-era United States. We are 
interested in media created in response to these seismic periods of 
political change, media created in the period leading up to them, and 
media that more broadly deals with themes related to populism, politics, 
and power. As well as discussing media that can be seen as protest or 
resistance, this collection will consider media forms that fail to 
resist, or those that merely hint at protest. In doing this we can also 
consider the responsibility of media creators to engage in and respond 
to political shifts and crises.

As well as focusing on media texts themselves, the discourses around 
them, and the political potentials within them, we wish to consider the 
broader ramifications and responsibilities of living through periods of 
extreme political turmoil. Do we bring these texts and conversations 
into our classrooms? Do we discuss them with family and friends? What is 
the role of popular media in creating and facilitating conversations 
about social injustice, political participation, and critical literacy? 
Our definition of ‘media’ is broad, including: Television and Film (all 
genres); Radio and Podcasts; Social Media, Memes and Viral Videos; 
Political Commentary and Punditry; and Print Media, Political Cartoons 
and Published Polemics.

How does comedy call attention to, and call out, dominant narratives and 
political injustices? How do documentary and political news-shows 
present issues from an ‘objective’ (aka masculine, straight, white, 
middle-class) perspective? How do political dramas create a reality with 
higher stakes than that which is playing out across the UK and US? What 
does it mean that the President of the USA uses a social media platform 
as his main form of communication?

Below is a list of suggested themes and texts; please feel free to 
submit abstracts addressing these or to propose relevant subject matter 
from your own research and teaching.

  * Anti-Immigration and Building Walls
  * Black Lives Matter: NFL Protests & White Supremacists in the Streets
  * Comedy Panel Shows: Have I Got News for You; Mock the Week
  * Documentary: Grayson Perry: Divided Britain; Brexit: The Movie;
    Brexit Means Brexit: The Unofficial Version
  * Dystopian Drama: The Handmaid’s Tale; The Man in the High Castle;
    Black Mirror; Westworld; The Leftovers
  * Economics on Screen: I, Daniel Blake; The Big Short; Inside Job
  * Gender and The Glass Cliff: Theresa May, Arlene Foster, Nicola Sturgeon
  * Hashtag Resistance: #Resist #LoveTrumpsHate #NotMyPresident
  * Late Night US Talk Shows: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon;
    The Late Show With Stephen Colbert; Jimmy Kimmel Live!; The Late
    Late Show with James Corden; Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; The
    Daily Show; Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
  * ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!’: Political Protest through Memes
  * Podcasting Politics
  * Political Drama: House of Cards; Game of Thrones; The Good Wife;
    Scandal; The Death of Stalin
  * Political Horror: Get Out; The Purge; American Horror Story
  * Politics in Animation: Zootopia; South Park; Rick and Morty
  * Politics on British TV: Daily Politics; Question Time; Andrew Marr
  * Post-Brexit Hate-Crime: Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Transphobia
  * Predictions, Polls and Pundits: Referendum/Election Coverage
  * Pride: LGBTQ Solidarity
  * Stranger than Fiction: Satire and Political Comedy
  * Solidarity: Deportations, Social Media and Boycotting
  * Teaching Trump: TV Studies and Fake News
  * The Special Relationship: Nigel Farage and British “Legitimacy” in
    Trumpland/The intersections of Brexit and Trump’s USA
  * The War on Women continued: Reproductive Health, Female Leaders, and
    Postfeminist Complicity
  * The White Working Class: Discourses of class around Brexit and Trump
  * Trump & Twitter: Responding to the President in 140 characters or less
  * Unlikely Leaders and Reluctant Media: Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May,
    and Donald Trump

We welcome submissions from scholars in full-time, part-time or 
temporary positions, Masters and PhD students, Early Career Academics, 
Postdoctoral Candidates, and Independent Scholars.

Submission Guidelines: 300 word abstracts with a 50 word biography due: 
Friday 19th October 2018. Notifications made by: 25th October 2018. 
Accepted and completed papers (5000 words with author-date referencing) 
due: Monday 3rd June 2019.

Please send inquiries and abstracts to editors:
(resistbook /at/ mail.com)

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