[ecrea] CFP - special issue of JOMEC on 'Radical right politics and expressive culture'

CFP - special issue of JOMEC on 'Radical right politics and expressive 
culture'.

/Edited by Torgeir Naerland and Benjamin De Cleen/

We would like to invite articles for a special issue of /JOMEC Journal/ 
on the interactions between radical right political parties and 
expressive culture. The special issue asks how various forms of 
expressive culture historically have been and presently are being 
engaged to both promote and oppose RR politics.

The revival of the radical right – in a new and contemporary form – has 
since the early 1990s and up until the present day attracted 
considerable academic attention. Although a significant contributing 
force in the mobilisation for and against RR politics, expressive 
culture’s relation to the radical right has received only scant 
attention. Political science and sociology, with their strong electoral 
focus, have usually limited their attention to the electorate of the RR, 
often explaining radical right electoral success through macro 
socioeconomic and sociocultural developments whilst ignoring the agency 
of RR parties. More recently, attention for RR party programmes and 
party leadership has grown, but the focus remains firmly on traditional 
political actors and forms of politics. Discursive approaches have 
contributed significantly to knowledge about PRR rhetoric but here too, 
attention to the role of expressive culture in the struggle of and 
against the PRR has been rare.

Cultural and media studies have, in general, tended to focus on the 
broader ideological-political aspects of culture, rather than on the 
manifest intersections between expressive culture and politics proper. 
In relation to the RR specifically, little attention has been given to 
how expressive culture has been mobilised by, for or against RR 
political parties. Existing work has focused mainly on the role of 
expressive culture (mainly music) in the radical right subculture.

This special issue presents a cross-European look at how particular 
forms/genres of expressive culture are aligned with RR parties, how the 
RR opposes certain other forms/genres of expressive culture, how artists 
engage in the struggle against or for the RR, and how certain 
forms/genres of expressive culture become the object of struggle between 
the RR and its opponents. The articles each present empirical research 
that pays particular attention to:

  1. How the aesthetic characteristics (e.g. genre) of expressive
     culture gain significance in the political struggle
  2. The ways in which expressive culture relates to more traditional
     forms of political intervention
  3. How the media become a site and a means for (strategic)
     interaction between cultural and political (radical right) actors
  4. How the intersections between expressive culture and the RR have
     evolved in the last three to four decades

We currently have articles dealing with Germany, Norway, Belgium and the 
UK and welcome contributions dealing with one or several other European 
countries. We particularly welcome articles dealing with Hungary, 
Greece, and France. Different approaches to the topic are welcome, as 
long as the articles cover the four dimensions mentioned above.

Please send expressions of interest and an abstract of 300 words to 
(Torgeir.Narland /at/ infomedia.uib.no) 
<mailto:(Torgeir.Narland /at/ infomedia.uib.no)> and 
(benjamin.de.cleen /at/ vub.ac.be) <mailto:(benjamin.de.cleen /at/ vub.ac.be)> by 30 
September 2014.

Full articles are due by September 2015.

More info on JOMEC here: 
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/research/journalsandpublications/jomecjournal/index.html
And the cfp here: 
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/research/journalsandpublications/jomecjournal/callforpapers/index.html

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Benjamin De Cleen

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