[Commlist] CfP Culture Wars: Statues, Flags, Streets and Squares: WPCC special issue

Call for Abstracts and Papers: WESTMINSTER PAPERS IN COMMUNICATION AND 
CULTURE. New Special Issue.

CULTURE WARS: STATUES, FLAGS, STREETS AND SQUARES

Issue Editor: Anthony McNicholas

Flags, emblems, monuments, street names, statues are some of the means 
by which nations and states promote themselves, both to their own 
citizens and to the world at large; the public face of our imagined 
communities. But as they seek to unify, such symbols have often been the 
occasion for contestation, disagreement, violence even. Empires, 
systems, regimes rise and fall. Societies change, and with such change 
comes a reassessment of societies’ symbolic life, as yesterday’s heroes 
become today’s villains, past triumphs a present embarrassment. The past 
is continually raked over, re-examined and reinterpreted, with each 
re-examination argued over. Examples abound from across the globe: the 
toppling of Rhodes’ statue in Cape Town in 2015; in Budapest, Soviet era 
leaders are gathered together in Memento Park. While Ukraine had by 2017 
decreed the removal of all 1,320 statues of Lenin. And in Germany there 
are no monuments commemorating the military in the war years. In the 
USA, statues of Confederate leaders are being taken down; thwarted by a 
statute forbidding such removals, the mayor of Birmingham Alabama had 
one offending figure covered in plastic. Outside Delhi statues of 
military and British royalty languish, a ‘shambles’ in a ‘veritable dust 
bowl’ (Times of India) awaiting a revamp that never seems to arrive, the 
neglect telling its own story. In the UK the national flag and the 
statues of slavers are being fought over by the government and sections 
of the population deploying memes, hashtags and video footage whilst 
also appearing in official and commercial films, TV, documentary, news 
footage.

Submissions are welcome covering the role of the media in all forms 
(from public service broadcasting to social media, feature films to 
advertising) exploring contested representations of such symbols and 
their remediation. WPCC publishes research articles, commentaries and 
book reviews. For guidelines see 
https://www.westminsterpapers.org/site/author-guidelines

Deadline for abstracts:

Please submit a 150-250 word abstract with keywords to WPCC’s submission 
system with 6 keywords by Monday 28 June 2021 by registering 
at https://www.westminsterpapers.org/submit/start/ uploading the 
abstract in addition to filling in the submission details. You will 
receive feedback regarding encouragement to submit a full paper (a 
resubmission on the system) or feedback from the issue editor(s)/WPCC 
within 7-10 days later.

Deadline for full papers:

Full papers are expected by Monday 30 August 2021, 23:59 submitted to 
the WPCC system. All papers will go through double peer-review.

Publication date: from 1 November 2021

WPCC is an open access journal and there are no fees for contributors. 
Published by the University of Westminster Press in conjunction 
with CAMRI. All content in this issue and in its archive is available 
free to read.

www.westminsterpapers.org


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