[ecrea] Call for papers- Place Power Media

CALL FOR PAPERS

The anthology Place, Power, Media aims to study how place, as 
represented in mediated texts, is transformed through the imperatives of 
globalization, while at the same time offering forms of localized 
resistance to such processes.

The core argument of this anthology is that it is in the analysis of 
place making that we recognize, engage with, and exert agency on the 
neocolonial conditions of globalization. This focus marks a departure 
from both reductionist tendencies of globalization studies and the 
obsession with the past that entraps revisionist postcolonial studies, 
as well as Indigenous approaches that seek to assert the particularities 
of cultural belonging.

An initial proposal has already caught the interest of a few leading 
publishers and we are excited to put forth a Call for Papers for the 
anthology, described further below.

Place is an emotionally charged and culturally contested category in our 
current moment of globalization. The construction, configuration, 
restoration, and representation of place is an important project at 
multiple levels: what meanings are derived from it, what meanings are 
infused, who are the key players, what power struggles are 
inherent—these issues offer rich areas of study for global media scholars.

This anthology brings together critical analyses of mediated texts such 
as television, news media, community media, and social/digital media 
that interrogate the notion of place in response to the pressures of 
globalization. Careful choreography and meticulous editing in televisual 
texts for example, can transform messy, real, noisy, and dusty locales 
into charming, friendly, progressive, and colorful sites for consumption.

What are the implications of such “sanitization” for how consumers 
engage in political, social, economic, and cultural processes that shape 
their present and future, and that may very well reconfigure their pasts?
How have local media producers drawn on global frameworks, practices and 
aesthetic norms to articulate the particularities of their place? Which 
expressions of place are lost or intensified in these encounters with 
the global?

This anthology aims to build theory that links Indigenous, postcolonial 
and globalization studies and paves the way for further critical 
analyses of the interplay between power and place in globalizing 
economies. In its focus on the aesthetics and practices that rework 
geographical locations, the anthology will include studies of a variety 
of mediated texts including film, television, radio, social media, news 
and community-based media initiatives, to explore how reconfigurations 
of place, in turn, introduce incremental shifts in global flows that 
might facilitate "opportunistic encounters" of resistance and interruption.

The distinction of this anthology will be in its interdisciplinary focus 
on the relationships among Indigenous, postcolonial, and globalization 
discourses and their implications for a range of contemporary media 
practices. We offer an anthology that focuses on how place-making media 
strategies, from a range of inter- and intra-national locations, draw on 
normative models of media that have a global purchase. As such, the 
anthology takes seriously the historical and contemporary conditions 
underpinning everyday media practices by offering a synthesis of 
Indigenous and postcolonial concerns framed through the larger lens of 
globalization.

We welcome papers from established and emerging critical scholars of 
Indigenous, postcolonial and global media, that:
? Illustrate how media technologies produce space for local and foreign 
consumption.
? Explore how media genres and forms such as lifestyle television, 
community radio, and social media configure “reality” by drawing on 
notions of place.
? Reveal the contradictions and dynamics of complicity of globalization 
through the study of place-making media technologies and modes of production
? Enhance our understanding of local adaptations of global formats for 
non-western and indigenous communities
? Use ethnographic methods such as audience research or projects with 
media producers to illustrate ways in which people negotiate a sense of 
place through media.
? Build theory on the relevance of place, particularly as cities or 
regions (as subnational units) attempt to link to global circuits 
sometimes working with and sometimes working against national efforts to 
do the same
? Expand research on key concepts in global media studies such as 
synchronicity and contemporaneity
? Expand research on key concepts in postcolonial studies such as 
opportunism, hybridity, and encounter
? Expand research on key concepts in Indigenous studies such as 
sovereignty, complicity, and translation
? Build scholarship on ethical considerations in such “transformational” 
texts as we evaluate how colonial pasts continue to inform the 
globalized present.

Timeline

Authors are invited submit 500-750 word abstracts by April 1, 2015 and 
complete chapters no later than September 1, 2015 to:

Divya McMillin :(divya /at/ uw.edu)

Professor of Global Media Studies
Director of the Institute for Global Engagement
University of Washington Tacoma
Box 358457
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98422-3100
USA


Editor bios-

Divya McMillin is Professor of Global Media Studies in the School of 
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Director of the Institute for 
Global Engagement and the Global Honors Program at the University of 
Washington Tacoma. She is author of International Media Studies 
(Blackwell 2007) and Mediated Identities: Youth, Agency, and 
Globalization (Peter Lang, 2009). McMillin’s research on media 
globalization and audiences has been published in such journals as the 
Journal of Communication, Popular Communication Journal, International 
Journal of Cultural Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Continuum: 
Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 
and the International Communication Bulletin, to name a few. She has 
published extensively on global television and hybridity in such 
anthologies as Critical Asian Histories (2015, Routledge), TV’s Betty 
Goes Global (2013, I.B. Tauris), Re-Orienting Global Communication 
(2010, University of Illinois Press), South Asian Technospaces (2008, 
Peter Lang), Girl Wide Web (2006, Peter Lang) and Planet TV(2003, New 
York University Press).

Joost de Bruin is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria 
University of Wellington in Aotearoa / New Zealand. He teaches in the 
areas of audience studies, television studies, popular culture and media 
and cultural identity. He has published articles in journals such as 
Television and New Media, Continuum, Media International Australia and 
Participations. With Koos Zwaan, he co-edited a volume on the Idols 
television format: Adapting Idols: Authenticity, Identity and 
Performance in a Global Television Format (2012, Ashgate). He has 
published chapters in anthologies on global television formats and 
indigenous media.

Jo Smith is Senior Lecturer, Media Studies at Victoria University of 
Wellington
Aotearoa/New Zealand. Smith’s research on Indigenous and Postcolonial 
media has been published in journals such as Continuum: Journal of Media 
and Cultural Studies, Studies in Australasian Cinema, Transnational 
Cinemas, The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Settler Colonial 
Studies and Arena to name a few. Her book chapters have been published 
in anthologies such as Settler and Creole Re-enactment (2010, Palgrave 
MacMillan), Film and Television After DVD (2008, Routledge), Studying 
the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings (2008, Manchester University 
Press), Contemporary New Zealand Cinema (2008, Wayne State University 
Press), The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand (2013, 
University of Minnesota Press) The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial 
Studies (2013, Oxford University Press) and Huihui: Navigating Art and 
Literature in the Pacific (2014, University of Hawai’i Press). She is 
currently writing a book about Maori Television, the Indigenous 
broadcaster based in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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