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[Commlist] CFP Gender, Media and Developmentalism - Feminist Media Histories

Wed Jan 10 22:39:46 GMT 2024




CALL FOR PAPERS

Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal
Special Issue on Gender, Media, and Developmentalism
Guest Editors: Dalila Missero & Masha Salazkina

Please consider submitting a proposal for the special issue of *Feminist Media Histories* (California University Press) on the topic of "Gender, Media and Developmentalism" (guest editors Dalila Missero and Masha Salazkina). Please send your 500-word abstracts (and a short bio) by* **1 February 2024***to**<(d.missero /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)> and <(salazkina.masha /at/ gmail.com)>; notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 March 2024; article drafts will be due by 1 October 2024 and will then be sent out for peer review. No publication fees/Article Publication Charges are required, at any time.

Please find below a short version of the call (full version here: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FMQtzXQqnffJLkvI0ippmwvGIYagioKKeZMmTbT5HM/edit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FMQtzXQqnffJLkvI0ippmwvGIYagioKKeZMmTbT5HM/edit>>).

CFP Special Issue Feminist Media Histories: Gender, Media, and Developmentalism

With this special issue of Feminist Media Histories we invite contributions that explore the historical role of gender within media production explicitly engaged in developmentalist projects. As an ideological and political framework, developmentalism became especially prominent between the 1950s and the 1990s to conceptualize, discuss, and tackle global inequality. Based on the certainty that economic growth inevitably leads to social progress and modernization, it has been a dominant paradigm driving state and inter-governmental support for various institutional media projects, especially in the context of Asia, Africa, and Latin America on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In a more latent way, developmentalist discourses and representational regimes—as well as their critiques—have also been central to much film and media production in these regions, from radical, grassroots, or independent media collectives to commercial filmmaking. With the inauguration of the United Nations Decade of Women (1975-1985), the issue of gender inequality became increasingly central in developmentalist debates and policies, in tandem with and in response to the agenda of the international women’s movement. Media representations and infrastructures have played a key role in shaping these intersecting processes in a way that remains to be fully explored in media history.

Investigating media projects that resulted from the inevitably contradictory intersection of global developmentalist politics (which have increasingly focused on women and indigenous communities) and on-the-ground women’s movements in Asia, Africa, and  Latin America therefore presents a particularly productive area of transnational decolonial feminist media scholarship. To this end, this special issue seeks to foster new knowledge and develop shared theoretical and methodological frameworks for exploring this topic. We welcome scholarship on different types of media (film, television, radio, digital media, etc), situated within a wide historical period, and from a variety of geographic and geopolitical positions. Contributions may focus on specific case studies as well as on broader methodological and theoretical questions.

Possible topics include:

Representations of gender, indigeneity, coloniality, and global inequality in developmentalist media
Feminist (mediated) responses to developmentalism
Queer and trans activism and developmentalist media
Developmentalist media and social, political, and anti-colonial movements
Differences and similarities in gender politics of developmentalism across the Cold War divides and their corresponding media forms and ideologies Archives, counter-archives, technologies, and infrastructures of developmentalist media
Developmentalism and mediated representations of the future
Institutions and agencies (United Nations, UNESCO, the World Bank) as well as governments and NGOs as production sites of media content on gender and development Developmentalism in the context of contemporary sustainability and environmental programs (i.e., SDG 2030 agenda), and its intersections with today’s ecofeminist movements and digital media practices
Comparative and/or transnational studies of developmentalism and media

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