[Commlist] CfP edited book- Edited volume on Visual Politics in the Global South

*CfP: Edited volume on Visual Politics in the Global South*

*CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS* Edited volume on Visual Politics in the Global 
South

Editors: Anastasia Veneti (Bournemouth University) and Maria Rovisco 
(University of Leeds)

This edited volume examines the novel ways in which political actors and 
citizens are producing, disseminating and consuming visual products in 
an increasingly diverse media landscape. Research on the role of the 
visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with 
the current social media landscape. While governments, NGOs and 
politicians increasingly use visual forms of communication to promote 
themselves in social media platforms, the significance of the visual in 
political communication is also evidenced in citizens’ sharing of images 
and memes to make political statements, and in activists’ creative use 
of images and stylised objects to communicate and connect with wider 
audiences. While there is a growingbody of scholarship in the field of 
visual political communication, most of this research has a strong 
empirical focus on the USA and Europe and neglects forms of visual 
politics that can be found in different sites acrossthe Global South 
(Veneti et al., 2019; Holtz-Bacha et al., 2017; Grabe and Bucy, 2009). 
Little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South 
might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the 
visual. Against this backdrop, the proposed volume seeks, on the one 
hand, to respond to pressing callsfor a de-Westernisation of critical 
media studies (Milan and Treré, 2019) and, on the other, to present a 
range of original case studies that are specifically concerned with 
visual politics and communication in the Global South.

The Editors invite abstract proposals for chapters concerned with the 
role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the 
relation between state and citizens) or public politics (e.g., social 
movements, activism, grassroots politics, civil society initiatives) in 
the Global South. We particularly welcome abstract submissions from 
scholars working in universities and organizations located in the Global 
South that include, but are not limited to the following topics:

  * political campaigns
  * governmental campaigns
  * political leaders
  * selfies and memes
  * photojournalism
  * social media and protest
  * the role of art in contentious politics
  * protest images and objects
  * video-activism and documentary genres


*Edited volume Editors / Correspondence*: Anastasia Veneti (Bournemouth 
University)(aveneti /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(aveneti /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)>and Maria Rovisco (University of 
Leeds) (M.Rovisco /at/ leeds.ac.uk) <mailto:(M.Rovisco /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>

Please send enquiries, expressions of interest and abstracts (300-500 
words) to Anastasia Veneti ((aveneti /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(aveneti /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)>) by the 16 November 2020.

**

*Important dates:**

*Abstract submission (300-500 words): 16 November 2020

Notification of decision on abstracts: 30 November 2020
Draft chapters submission: 30 September 2021.

Completed chapters (c. 6000 words): 31 January 2022


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