[ecrea] cfp - special issue Feminist Media Studies

>Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Media Studies
>
>Theme:
>
>Feminist Contributions to Cultural Policy
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>(Volume 7, Number 4: December 2007)
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>Guest Editor: Alison Beale
>
>
>
>As with policy studies in general, cultural policy is sometimes viewed from
>the outside as an administrative practice with limited influence on everyday
>lives. Yet, cultural policies at local, national and international levels
>have enormous influence on questions of representation. For example: What
>distinguishes the private from the public? Who qualifies for recognition as
>a cultural citizen? Which persons and groups are viewed as adequately
>conforming to (or deviating from) prescriptive modern national identities?
>How might groups effectively voice their needs, interests, and demands in
>various arenas of cultural governance? In what ways do the distribution and
>redistribution of social and public goods facilitate or obstruct access to
>representation? Issues like these are debated in forums from local
>government, to national arts funding agencies, and international bodies such
>as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Educational,
>Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
>Feminist scholars have contributed intriguing work on the gender issues that
>surround key topics in cultural policy. These topics include the gendered
>nature of cultural identities, the intellectual property rights of
>indigenous people, and cultural rights to diverse forms of expression, to
>name only a few.  Feminist historians continue to study the cultural
>dimensions of womens suffrage movements and womens anti-colonial
>struggles, in which the cultural sphere has provided space for expressions
>of womens political agency denied elsewhere. Women are major participants
>in cultural planning and policy analysis, and in the critical cultural
>policy studies that have brought important reflections from cultural studies
>and communication studies to bear on policy debates.
>Given the multiplicity of feminist contributions to cultural policy it is
>timely to assess and foster the cross-fertilization of feminist work in this
>field. We invite submissions that address a range of topics related to
>feminist scholarship and practice in cultural policy and cultural
>governance. Subjects may include (but are not limited to):
>
>"       The relationship of the work of 
>feminists studying gender in the cultural
>labor force to policy agendas promoting the cultural industries as
>employment generators in urban centers
>"       Cultural policies, indigenous movements, and intellectual property
>"       The disciplinary and ideological 
>differences among feminist scholars; what
>might account for the non-convergence, and even conflict, among feminist
>approaches to cultural policy?
>"       Whether cultural policy has the status 
>of a feminized sphere of public
>policy and if so what are the disciplining and emancipating roles of women
>within it
>"       The various roles of women from all parts of the world as significant
>participants in this field (from historic or current perspectives) and the
>ways in which their contributions add to theoretical and conceptual
>understanding of gender in key policy issues and 
>strategies for their resolution
>"       Gender and tourism, cultural management, 
>cultural marketing, and volunteerism
>"       The role of women as agents of economic development and modernization
>"       Cultural policy and social movements, including cultural aspects of
>suffrage campaigns, women in anti-colonial struggles, womens organization
>advocacy, and moral campaigns
>"       Gender, culture and policy from the 
>perspectives of the teaching profession
>"       The profile of women in particular arts and cultural industries
>"       Cultural and communication policy from feminist political economy and
>international relations perspectives
>"       Changes in cultural policy which 
>accompany the new global governance in
>which women have become important stakeholders
>
>
>Full-length papers (8000 words maximum including notes and references)
>should be submitted as a Word document e-mail attachment to Alison Beale by
>February 1, 2007. Email address: (beale /at/ sfu.ca).
>
>For further information: Dr. Alison Beale
>Professor, School of Communication
>Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre
>515 West Hastings Street, 3rd Floor,
>Vancouver BC Canada V6B 5K3
>(beale /at/ sfu.ca) or (604) 291-5160.
>
>Submissions must conform to Feminist Media Studies style guidelines, which
>may be found at the following website:
>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14680777.asp.
>
>Papers will undergo the standard, double-blind, peer-review process utilized
>by Feminist Media Studies.
>
>Feminist Media Studies is a journal published by Routledge and edited by
>Lisa McLaughlin (Miami University-Ohio) and Cynthia Carter (Cardiff
>University-Wales). The journal offers a trans-disciplinary, transnational
>forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and
>communication studies. It aims to facilitate international dialogue among
>researchers and activists through attention to local, national, and global
>contexts for critical and empirical feminist media inquiry.

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