[ecrea] Call for Book Chapters - Piracy: Leakages From Modernity

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Call for Book Chapters

Piracy: Leakages From Modernity

Edited by Martin Fredriksson (Link=F6ping University) and James Arvanitakis=
 (University of Western Sydney)
Published by Litwin Press

We are inviting proposals for chapters for an anthology on Piracy planned t=
o be published by the end of 2012.

'Piracy' is a concept that seems everywhere in the contemporary world. From=
 the big screen with the dashing 'Jack Sparrow', to the dangers off the coa=
st of Somalia; from the claims by the Motion Picture Association of America=
 that piracy funds terrorism, to the political impact of pirate parties in =
countries like Sweden and Germany. While the spread of piracy provokes resp=
onses from the shipping and copyright industries, the reverse is also true:=
 for every new development in capitalist technologies, some sort of 'piracy=
' moment emerges.

This is maybe most obvious in the current ideologisation of Internet piracy=
 where the rapid spread of so called Pirate Parties is developing into a ki=
nd of global political movement. While the pirates of Somalia seem a long w=
ay removed from Internet pirates illegally downloading the latest music hit=
 or, it is our assertion that such developments indicate a complex interpla=
y between capital flows and relations, late modernity, property rights and =
spaces of contestation. That is, piracy seems to emerge at specific nodes i=
n capitalist relations that create both blockages and leaks between differe=
nt social actors.

These various aspects of piracy form the focus for this book, preliminary e=
ntitled Piracy: Leakages from Modernity. It is meant to be a collection of =
texts that takes a broad perspective on piracy and attempts to capture the =
multidimensional impacts of piracy on capitalist society today. The book is=
 edited by James Arvanitakis at the University of Western Sydney and Martin=
 Fredriksson at Link=F6ping University, Sweden, and published by Litwin Pre=
ss, USA. It is open for recently unpublished articles from all academic dis=
ciplines and we particularly welcome contributions by young and emerging sc=
holars.
If you want to contribute to this book please send an abstract of no more t=
han 1000 words to Martin Fredriksson
((martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)<mailto:(martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)>)
or James Arvanitakis ((j.arvanitakis /at/ uws.edu.au)<mailto:(j.arvanitakis /at/ uws.edu.au)>). Deadline for abstracts is December 1.

Martin Fredriksson
Link=F6ping University

James Arvanitakis
University of Western Sydney


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