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[Commlist] CFP - International Journal of Film and Media Arts Vol. 8 No.2

Tue Sep 27 19:06:49 GMT 2022




*Call for papers - IJFMA Vol. 8 No.2 (2023)*

*/Precarity and the Moving Image/*

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*Francesco Sticchi, Maria Elena Alampi and André Rui Graça*

Audiovisual Arts (both in their intra-cinematic elements and through its extra-cinematic contexts) have always been a vehicle to display and discuss precarity, as well as affected by it in their modes of production.

The notion of Precarity, however, in itself, is also a very open and problematic concept. Often used in reference to changes in labour dynamics, associated with the neoliberal turn, and with the mechanisms of gig-economy, this term has assumed the most various significance up to the point of becoming capable of embodying and speaking in the name of an entire collective predicament  in the contemporary world. From the politics of debt/credit and the digital economy, to ecological crises, passing to accounting for the current reassessment of violent identitarian regimes (in the broad sense of the word), precarity seems to identify both mechanisms and dynamics of exploitation and marginalisation, and the awareness of a sense of vulnerability and interdependence existing between subjects. These latter elements, in fact, also allow for open and creative critical opportunities to be explored and mapped and, at the same time, actively mobilised in their counter-subjectivating potentialities.

Exactly by taking into account the openness and polysemic nature of the notion of precarity, this call for papers is directed to the investigation of how such issues variably relate to Screen Culture. Indeed, the connection between precarity and the moving image can refer to modes in which subjectivities and spaces of precarious existence are displayed on screen, or rather to the ways in which such dynamic is intersected on the line of class, race, gender, ability/disability. It can take into account new productive and distributive dynamics, helping in effectively assessing new tensions between mainstream and ‘niche’ screen culture and/or strategies to challenge such divisions. Likewise, understanding these mechanisms is also connected with the possibility of tracing genealogies of precarity in the multiple histories of cinema and audiovisual productions examining hegemonic and counter-hegemonic trends in their developments or even entrenched in the very emergence of a visual culture. In addition we are also interested in the relation between precarity and public policies concerning cinema, as well as film and AV laws, i.e., how policies have addressed it (case studies are welcome) or how legislators may address the broader topic of precarity with regard to the moving image.

It is for these reasons that the call follows a double-trajectory: on the one hand, it is directed to the analysis of cinematic experiences and, on the other, it encourages examinations of the infrastructure within which these images operate and exist and, concurrently, of the multiple strategies meant to counteract it. Indeed, as precarity seems to permeate more and more strata of contemporary life (and threatens to do so even more after the pandemic), it becomes all the more important to be tackled, studied, explained and, ultimately, solved. That is why we encourage more than purely critical or analytical discussion.

Addressing precarity and the moving image also means putting in relation screen with wider media, social, and environmental ecologies and accounting for how much cinema, television, and audiovisual experiences in a broad sense, always exist by interrelating to wider and, in turn, evolving, reality.

This special issue of the International Journal of Film and Media Arts invites film makers, artists and researchers to submit papers that deal with but are not limited to:

* Precarity in Production, Circulation, and Participation in Media Culture

* Precarity in Production, Circulation, and Participation in Media Culture * Political and Productive Strategies Responding/Resisting Dynamics of Precarisation * Precarious Subjectivities and Spaces On Screen at the Intersection of Class, Gender, Race, Ability/Disability * Precarity and the Neoliberal Governance; Dynamics of Necropolitics and Border as a Method
   * Genealogies of Precarity Beyond the Limits of Contemporaneity
   * Precarious Narratives and Counter-Subjectivation
* Precarity and the Affective Labour in Relation to Transfeminist Thought
   * Ecological Precarity and the Precarious State of the Human
   * Ways to Address Precarity in Terms of Public Policies
* Analyses of Legislation Concerning Precarity in Film and Audiovisual Sectors

Please send chapter abstracts no longer than *500 words* with *5 keywords* and a biographical note no longer than *300 words* name, email address and institutional affiliation. **Authors should indicate the call for papers they are submitting**. Please submit to Anna Coutinho ((anna.coutinho /at/ ulusofona.pt <http://ulusofona.pt>) <mailto:(anna.coutinho /at/ ulusofona.pt <http://ulusofona.pt>)>) or through the submission form ((revistas.ulusofona.pt <http://revistas.ulusofona.pt> /index.php /ijfma/ about /submissions)) by*2 October, 2022*. We will notify authors of acceptance by 16 November, 2022. Final chapters of 7500-10000 words are due by 16 January 2023.Submission online or via email will be made **anonymously**. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 peer reviewers. Accepted abstracts will be given guidelines for the preparation and submission of the final text for the 2nd round of double blind peer-reviews. **No fees are requested for submission or processing**.

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