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

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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