[ecrea] CfP: Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication Symposium

Please see below the call for papers for the upcoming symposium 
‘Political Youth Culture and Communication’. Please submit your 
abstracts to Brian Loader ((brian.loader /at/ york.ac.uk)) by Monday 14 March 2016.


Call for Papers
Contemporary Political Youth Culture and Communication
http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/groups/cpac/#tab-7
A two-day Symposium
University of York, UK.
18-20 July 2016.

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 14th March 2016

Marking the launch of the Centre for Political Youth Culture and 
Communication (CPAC) this two-day international symposium explores the 
socio-cultural factors influencing the civic engagement of young people 
and its means of communicative expression. Young networking citizens in 
many parts of the world today play a crucial role in shaping the future 
prospects for democratic societies. The styles, nature and means of 
their political engagement is therefore of increasing importance to 
policy-makers and academics alike. This event is focused upon the 
communicative, emotional, embodied, and aesthetical modes of youth 
citizenship. It examines the social construction of the political 
identities of young people within the context of widening social 
inequality, climate change, reflexive individualism and a networked 
social media ecology.  We welcome papers drawing upon research and 
theory that address questions of contemporary political youth culture 
including, but not limited to, such topics as:

Citizenship norms, Political talk, Social networking Precarious 
employment, Celebrity politics, Personalisation Identity politics, 
Social movement protest, Community politics Political socialisation, 
Civic education, Political education Transnational politics, Populist 
parties, Youth campaigns
Migration politics, electoral engagement

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Henrik Bang, University of Copenhagen and Canberra University 
Prof. Lance Bennett, University of Washington Prof. Donatella della 
Porta, European University Institute, Florenze



Conference organisers:
Brian D. Loader, University of York, (brian.loader /at/ york.ac.uk) Nathan 
Manning, University of York, (nathan.manning /at/ york.ac.uk) Nisha Kapoor, 
University of York, (nisha.kapoor /at/ york.ac.uk)


KEY DATES
Please submit title, abstract and brief biog for consideration to 
(brian.loader /at/ york.ac.uk) by Monday 14th March 2016.
Notification of decision: Monday 21st March, 2016.



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