[ecrea] CFP - Film/Screen/Visual Studies Focus - 'The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism'

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism 
(publishing: 2014)



A definitive project of 750,000 words – 250+ entries averaging 3,000 
words – with contributions by leading academic specialists from 
throughout the world



General Editors: Immanuel Ness and Saër Maty Bâ




Dear ECREA Members,





Following our first call for essays, we are currently seeking further 
contributions on topics listed below. We anticipate that essays should 
be between 3,000 - 4,000 words long – including notes, a bibliography, 
and captions for any illustration/s. The due date for these essays is: 
June 21st, 2013.





Topics





§ Anti-imperialist resistance and/in the cinema



- For example, ‘anti-imperialist resistance’ as spurred by: national 
self-determination, and/or continental unity against the oppressor, 
and/or religious visions, and/or the longing for imaginary/re-imagined 
communities; AND/OR ‘anti-imperialist resistance’ as carried out by: 
communist guerrillas, and/or religious fanatics, and/or liberals, and/or 
intellectuals, and/or activists.





§ Cinema, free-markets, and ‘new’ imperialisms (within and across borders)





§ Extremes of imperialism and/in the cinema



- ‘Extremes of imperialism’ may include (but are not be limited to) 
resorting to ethnic cleansing and genocide (for the purpose of settling 
new lands).





§ Film archives and ‘empire’/ imperial film archives





§ Film festivals, imperialism and/or anti-imperialism





§ Forces of imperialism and/in the cinema



- ‘Forces of imperialism’ may include (but are not limited to): 
disrupting customary political orders and socioeconomic activities; 
prohibiting old traditions and imposing new customs; dislocating 
inhabitants from their communities and, in some instances, settling and 
occupying territories.





§ (The) Media and anti-imperialist enterprises



- Contributors may choose to focus on: theorists and activists, and/or 
spontaneous uprisings, and/or organized revolutionary strategies, among 
other topics.





§ Understanding histories of imperialism (from 1776 onwards) through 
Film/Screen/Visual Cultures and Studies





- Contributors may choose to focus on: prominent themes, and/or epochal 
events, and/or theoretical explanations, and/or historical accounts.







Interested colleagues should forward to the general editors, an abridged 
CV clearly stating their research interests and output, as well as 
current institutional affiliation (as applicable).



All essays will clearly lay out the topic, provide historical context 
and apply a relevant analytic viewpoint, and will include a short 
bibliography. Contributors to The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism 
and Anti-Imperialism should also apply relevant analytic viewpoints as 
most scholarly books would do. We intend the essays in the work to go 
beyond description to an analysis of the major currents in each of the 
topics. In this respect, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and 
Anti-Imperialism is a scholarly-reference work. Scholarly-reference 
counts for academic purposes equivalently to almost all refereed journal 
articles.



Contributor’s names will be listed prominently below the title of essays 
with the biography in the beginning of the work. The same version of The 
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism will appear in 
hard copy and online.



Please note that contributors who wish to include ‘Third Party’ 
materials – such as photographs, pictures, drawings, tables, maps, 
graphs – must obtain necessary consents, licenses and/or permissions. 
The link about using ‘Third Party’ material, which includes the 
guidelines and useful tips and a permission tracker document, is:

http://www.palgrave.com/authors/process.asp#permissions



Palgrave Macmillan provides contributors to The Palgrave Encyclopedia of 
Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism with the following benefits:



* a copy of their final typeset article for use on institution listservs
* the opportunity to purchase The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism 
and Anti-imperialism for the contributor’s own personal use at a 
discount of 50% on the retail price.


(Unfortunately, due to budget restrictions we are unable to offer 
payment to contributors.)


Kindly find below a brief description of the project, and a list of 
Editorial Advisory Committee members.



With thanks, best regards and wishes,



Saër Maty Bâ, PhD

General Editor

(drsaerba1 /at/ gmail.com)



Immanuel Ness, PhD

General Editor

(iness /at/ brooklyn.cuny.edu)



The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism





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ABOUT THE EDITORS





Immanuel Ness is a professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of 
the City University of New York and the author of numerous works on 
immigration, social and political movements and worker organizations. He 
is author of Immigrants, Unions, and the New US Labor Market (2005) and 
Guest Workers and Resistance to US Corporate Despotism (2011) and 
Migration in a World of Inequality (forthcoming ). He is General Editor 
of the Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration with Alex Julca (2013), 
and editor of the peer-reviewed journal WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor 
and Society. He is working on forthcoming books, including one on film, 
labour and migration with Saër Maty Bâ.





Saër Maty Bâ has taught film studies, and visual culture, at the 
universities of Bangor, East London, Portsmouth, Exeter, and St Andrews 
(UK). His research blurs boundaries between diaspora, film, media, and 
cultural studies. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals 
such as Transnational Cinemas, Studies in Documentary Film, Film 
International, Cultural Studies Review, Culture Machine, and Ecquid 
Novi: African Journalism Studies (forthcoming). He is co-editor of: 
Re-presenting Diasporas in Cinema and New (Digital) Media/Special issue 
of Journal of Media Practice (Vol. 11 Issue 1, 2010); Media(te) 
Migrations and Migrant(s’) Disciplines: Contrasting Approaches to 
Crossings/Special issue of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture 
(Vol. 3 Issue 2, 2012); and the book De-Westernizing Film Studies 
(2012). He is associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Global Human 
Migration (2013) and editorial board member of the peer-reviewed journal 
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society. He is working on 
forthcoming books, including one on film, labour and migration with 
Immanuel Ness.





BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT



The forthcoming The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and 
Anti-Imperialism (2014) is a definitive project of 750,000 words – 250+ 
entries averaging 3,000 words – with, already, contributions by leading 
academic specialists from throughout the world. The Palgrave 
Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism will be a scholarly 
reference work that will include the most current literature on the 
subject. The project will have a broad readership attracting academics 
and graduate and upper-level undergraduate students studying imperialism 
and anti-imperialism across the globe. It will also be peer-reviewed by 
a host of leading scholars spanning the academic disciplines.





LIST OF EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS



§ Mr John Akomfrah OBE, Filmmaker and Theorist (Smoking Dogs Films) 
London, UK

§ Dr Vian T. Bakir, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor 
University, Wales, UK

§ Prof. Walden Bello, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, USA

§ Dr Yifen T. Beus, School of International Cultural Studies and 
Languages, Brigham Young University, HAWA‘I

§ Dr Richard Bradbury, Writer/Lecturer/Activist, The Open University, UK

§ Prof. Stephen E. Bronner, Department of Political Science, Rutgers 
University, USA

§ Dr Claudio Canaparo, Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 
Birkbeck College (University of London); Professeur attaché à la 
recherche, Université catholique de Louvain, UK/BELGIUM

§ Dr Rajinder Dudrah, Department of Drama / Centre for Screen Studies, 
University of Manchester, UK

§ Dr Bill Fletcher, Jr., Institute for Policy Studies, USA

§ Dr Patti Gaal-Holmes, Artist/Filmmaker and Historian, Portsmouth, UK

§ Prof. Graeme Harper, Director, The Honors College, Oakland University, USA

§Dr Winston Mano, Director, Africa Media Centre; Communication and Media 
Research Institute, University of Westminster, UK

§ Dr Martin Mhando, School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch 
University, AUSTRALIA

§ Dr Sheila Petty, Dean of Fine Arts, University of Regina, CANADA

§ Dr Elena Pollacchi, Chinese Studies, Stockholm University, SWEDEN

§ Dr Gavin Schaffer, Department of History, University of Birmingham, UK

§ Dr Ousmane Sène, The West African Research Centre; and Cheikh Anta 
Diop University (English), SENEGAL

§ Dr Ashwani Sharma, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University 
of East London, UK

§ Dr Marcel Stoetzler, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, 
Wales, UK

§ Prof. Keyan Tomaselli, Director, Centre for Cultural and Media 
Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA

§ Dr Valentina Vitali, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University 
of East London, UK

§ Prof. Michael Wayne, Department of Film and TV Studies, Brunel 
University, UK

§ Prof. Cornel West, The Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice, 
Union Theological Seminary, USA

§ Prof. Patrick Williams, College of Arts and Science, Nottingham Trent 
University, UK



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