[ecrea] CfP EUROSEAS 2015: Indigenous mediascapes in Indonesia

As the deadline is fastly approaching, I would like to resend a Call for
Papers for a panel I am organizing for the next EUROSEAS conference in
Vienna in 2015. It would be great if some of you had an interest to attend
and present a paper.

For more general information on the conference, please see:
http://euroseas.org/content/conference

Please feel free to forward this to anybody who you think might be
interested.

I am looking forward to your submission!

Thanks and best regards,

Birgit

Dr. habil. Birgit Bräuchler
Institut für Ethnologie
Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Grüneburgplatz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany


Panel "Indigenous mediascapes in Indonesia"

The international advancement of collective human rights led to the adoption
of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. It
included the right of indigenous peoples to establish their own media and to
have access to all forms of non-indigenous media without discrimination.
While in places such as the USA or Canada indigenous peoples' media use has
attracted a lot of attention and fostered the rise of a 'new media nation'
(Alia), there is a glaring lack of research on indigenous media in
Indonesia. Recent democratisation processes in the country led, among
others, to the gradual adoption of international policies on cultural human
rights, the re-constitution of the original autonomy of local communities,
their reclaiming of resources, and freedom of the press. Media – once the
cornerstone of national unity – became increasingly used by different groups
to push through their political and economic interests and as weapons in the
many regional conflicts in the post-Suharto era. The expanding media scene
was used to further marginalise and stereotype indigenous peoples as
'primitive' on an even broader scale, but it also fostered empowerment and
the new indigenous movement in Indonesia is increasingly making use of media
to 'talk back'.
      This panel aims to explore emerging indigenous mediascapes in
Indonesia. It looks at how indigenous people or people claiming to be
indigenous or to represent indigenous peoples use media for diverse
objectives: e.g. to promote and strengthen their culture (for internal or
tourism purposes or international recognition), to fight for their rights,
to reclaim their land, to struggle against government policies and big
resource businesses, to link up with the global indigenous movement, or seek
international support. Whereas this panel aims to consider the whole range
of media put to use, a special focus will be on new (integrative) media,
such as websites, social media and mobile media/phones. Objective is to
analyse indigenous media projects in their own terms, but also look at their
embeddedness in specific sociocultural contexts and the broader Indonesian
media landscape thus taking the interactions between indigenous and
non-indigenous media actions and actors into account. As 'indigeneity' is a
contested category in Indonesia, contributors are also asked to critically
reflect on what 'indigenous' means in the context in question, who is
claiming to represent whom, and what other conflicts such potentially
essentialising and exclusionary categories may trigger. Contributions are
ideally based on both theoretical reflections with regards to existing or
new concepts of mediatisation, indigenous media and the struggle for
cultural rights and on empirical data from anthropological research on the
ground. Please send your paper title and abstract (max. 350 words), along
with your institutional affiliation and a short bio sketch (max. 150 words),
to birgitbraeuchler[at]gmx.net by May 1.

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