[ecrea] call for abstracts: Hard Times Today

Hard Times Today  - call for new abstracts for specific chapters

We are inviting abstracts for particular chapters required for this co-edited collection.

Hard Times Today: Austerity, Myth and Popular Culture provides readings of cultural texts in circulation in the present ‘age of austerity’.  Through its central focus—popular culture—it considers the impact and influence of austerity across media and textual categories. The collection presents a theoretical deconstruction of popular culture’s reproduction of, and response to, mythical expressions of ‘austerity’ in Western culture.

The collection has the following aims:

·       To explore the ways in which popular culture has interpreted and depicted notions of  recession and austerity


·       To examine the ideological implications of austerity for popular culture. To what extent does popular culture offer a set of contexts in which austerity can be problematised? In times of financial difficulty, does popular culture seek to challenge and/or offer alternative commentaries and politics, or are popular cultural responses conservative and reactionary?
·       To discuss the ways in which discourses of austerity intersect with other representations of cultural identities.
We are inviting abstracts for chapters from authors working outside of the UK that address the following areas with a focus on texts / examples / practices also from outside of the UK:

 *   Social Media
 *   Gaming
 *   Art(s)
 *   Journalism

Please submit abstracts of 300 – 500 words on any of these four topics, accompanied by a statement of affiliation, (tojulian /at/ cemp.ac.uk)  , by 1st December 2014.

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Dr Julian McDougall

Associate Professor: Media and Education
Head of The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice
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