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[ecrea] 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS)

Thu Sep 03 13:31:24 GMT 2009



Call for Papers



21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS)



26 ? 29 July 2010, University of Bonn, Germany

Panel - Intersecting Contexts: Media Cultures, Politics and Identity in South Asia

The recent interest in 'Bollywood' presents an exotic and somewhat overwhelming discourse in relation to South Asian film and media cultures. This particular formation of Indian film culture - which has come to stand in for the general contemporary visual cultural idiom of South Asia in some contexts - obscures other cultures of media production and reception in the subcontinent. This panel seeks to present new research addressing the cultural contexts of television and marginal cinemas in South Asia, with a particular focus on the politics of production, audiences and genre. We encourage submissions that go beyond purely textual readings of media texts to explore ethnographic, and cultural-studies based methodologies that account for the socio-political context of meaning-generation and production of audio-visual media in the subcontinent (and among transnational/ transcultural consumers of this media). Some of the questions this panel proposes to explore are:

· The politics of power through production: how and by which groups of media producers are historical and social events in South Asia being represented to national and trans-national audiences?

· How are dominant 'national' histories of film and media rewritten, challenged or problematised through sub-cultures of production?

· In what ways are discourses on gender, nationalism, ethnicity or class expressed by mainstream media texts across South Asia and how do different sections of the public negotiate meanings from theses discourses?

· Which political themes and concerns are expressed across different media audiences and across borders in the subcontinent?

We particularly welcome transnational comparative studies; research that focuses on specific regional case studies of production and reception; and site-specific ethnographic and archive-based historiographical research. Please submit a 250 word abstract to both the panel conveners by 30th November 2009.

Panel Conveners:

Dr. Rashmi Sawhney, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.

E: <mailto:(rashmi.sawhney /at/ dit.ie)>(rashmi.sawhney /at/ dit.ie); W: <http://www.ctmp.ie>www.ctmp.ie

Dr. Shakuntala Banaji, Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education, University of London, England.

E: <mailto:(s.banaji /at/ ioe.ac.uk)>(s.banaji /at/ ioe.ac.uk); W: <http://www.childrenyouthandmedia.org.uk>www.childrenyouthandmedia.org.uk




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