[Commlist] CFP: Themed Issue on 'Axes of Oppression in the Cultural Sector' - IPED International Journal

*Call for Papers – **Themed Issue on 'Axes of Oppression in the Cultural 
Sector'**- IPED International Journal*
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/*The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity*/*(IPED)* 
international journal invites submissions to a special issue 
<https://ipedjournal.com/2019/05/07/cfp-themed-issue-on-axes-of-oppression-in-the-cultural-sector-iped-international-journal/> 
titled: ‘Innovations, Intersections, and Institutions: Axes of 
Oppression in the Cultural Sector’.

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There has been an increasingly visible discourse on diversity -- and 
more precisely, the lack of it -- in many cultural sectors across the 
Global North, particularly in major global ventures such as Hollywood 
(Hunt et al. 2019) and through national reporting practices (DCMS 2016). 
This increased awareness is usually followed by discursive calls to 
increase diversity in cultural institutions, as in the Arts Council 
England’s “Creative Case for Diversity” and various institutional 
initiatives in the US, Australia and others, which have been launched in 
the last decade. Furthermore, there have been many activist calls to 
decolonise public spaces and cultural practices, which are starting to 
make an impact on institutional practices.

However, the term diversity is a problematic one that often fails to 
account for the importance of the intersectionality of multiple axes of 
oppression and the interplay of varied social constructs such as 
race/ethnicity and gender, religion, sexuality, class, disability, and 
so on. Moreover, institutional diversity initiatives are typically the 
result of an institution being reactive to short-term funding calls or 
political agendas, and ultimately fail to address structural 
inequalities or understand the artistic and economic value of diverse 
artists and content.

Artistic works that negotiate these intersections -- of oppression and 
marginalisation -- often offer fertile ground for innovative artistic 
processes to address the complexity of their subject matter and 
challenge the hegemonic nature of the cultural sector. This special 
issue is interested in highlighting these artistic negotiations, 
creative processes, and survival strategies, as well as the 
contributions of ethnic minority and decolonial artists, that unsettle 
hegemonic structures in the Global North. A particular emphasis is on 
articulating and unpacking, in artistic and ethnographic detail 
(Conquergood 1985), these creative processes and the negotiations that 
marginalised artists/voices undertake while they are creating new work.

Further, this special issue recognises the ongoing reinvention and 
regeneration of the cultural sectors in the Global North, while aiming 
to examine the grassroots efforts that are contributing to these 
changes. These efforts could refer to new economic, artistic, and/or 
social initiatives that are revitalising the sector from the bottom up. 
We welcome contributions from a range of disciplines including cultural 
studies, performance studies, sociology, and anthropology that take the 
form of articles (4000-6000 words) or reflections (1000-2000 words) in 
responseto one or more of the following questions:

1)Using recent attempts to diversify cultural institutions in the Global 
North as a point of departure, what processual value does the 
mainstreaming of marginalised artists/voices add to the cultural sector 
as a whole?

2)How do multiple axes of oppression manifest in creative artistic 
processes?

3)What strategies of survival do marginalised artists/voices use to 
create and showcase work in a cultural space dominated by hegemonic 
institutions?

4)Through engaging cultural production, how have marginalised 
artists/voices instigated institutional and structural change?

5)How do the recent calls to decolonise culture and public spaces 
contribute to imagining alternative cultural spaces, and generating new 
modes of cultural production?

Abstracts (250 words) with a title and a short bio (100 words) should be 
sent to the editors: Roaa ((roaa.ali /at/ manchester.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(roaa.ali /at/ manchester.ac.uk)>) and Asif 
((asif.majid /at/ manchester.ac.uk) <mailto:(asif.majid /at/ manchester.ac.uk)>) 
by* 1st of September 2019*. We expect that contributors will submit 
first drafts by *February 2020*, but we are happy to extend this - 
please let us know and we can negotiate a new submission date. After 
receiving editorial and peer-reviewed feedback, second drafts are due by 
*July* *2020*, with an expected publication date of *September 2020*. We 
may be able to accept submissions in languages other than English, 
please contact Roaa for more details or if you have any questions.

/The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity/ 
<http://journals.hw.ac.uk/index.php/IPED/index>(IPED) 
<http://journals.hw.ac.uk/index.php/IPED/index>is an open access journal 
open to academics and practitioners globally.


*References*

Conquergood, Dwight. 1985. “Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical 
Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance.” /Literature in 
Performance/ 5 (2): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462938509391578

Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS). 2016. “Creative 
industries: Focus on Employment”. 
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/534305/Focus_on_Employment_revised_040716.pdf

Hunt, Darnell, Ana-Christina Ramón, and Michael Tran. 2019. “Hollywood 
Diversity Report.” /UCLA./ 
https://socialsciences.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/UCLA-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2019-2-21-2019.pdfhttps://socialsciences.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/UCLA-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2019-2-21-2019.pdf



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