[ecrea] cfp - The BRICS: a voluntarist and uncertain vision / Recognition, transformation and shared space

*The BRICS: a voluntarist and uncertain vision. *

*Recognition, transformation and shared space.*

*Special issue of Hermes, French leading journal in Communication studies *

After having been over-determined by the economy, the BRICS have become 
another grouping, bringing together contradictions and values. How can 
these politically and culturally heterogeneous five countries structure 
this union? Do the BRICS form a new political and communicational space 
or are they just simply an alliance of States – due to the great 
divergence of their interests – built around occasional agreements? Are 
they simply a representation? From the viewpoint of communication, how 
to share values in the face of practices that come into contradiction 
with them? Despite all these difficulties, divergences and oppositions, 
how can we explain what holds this disparate grouping together and moves 
it forward. What are the constructive forces, the centripetal and 
centrifugal forces that cross each of these countries and the grouping?

The BRICS are in a situation of non-communication, which leads us to ask 
ourselves how can a political bring these countries together? Despite 
such voluntarism, which is questioned, to develop projects with regards 
the West, however the idea seems to encounter difficulties. The 
problematic, which is doubly communicational, articulates 
representation, politics and social relations, in an interdisciplinary 
and comparative approach.

The issue explores discourse and public space of the BRICS, their 
actions and internal tensions, the vision developed in other countries 
and the limits and the powers that actors must confront. The editors 
invite the authors to identify the contradictions, the strengths and 
weaknesses of the project and of the reality of the BRICS.


*LIU Chang *(CUC, Beijing), *Tom Dwyer *(Unicamp, São Paulo), *Michaël 
Oustinoff* (University of Nice).*Supervisor**: Olivier 
Arifon*(Université libre de Bruxelles).

Publication planned for December 2017: n°79, papers to be turned in by 
end of June 2017.

The articles should be between 15,000 and 20,000 characters, with 
bibliography and spaces included. Shorter texts, between 4 and 8 
thousand characters can be proposed- these should allow to ask some 
questions, to give some clues for reflection, to supply an insight based 
in historical or comparative observations.

More on the journal: http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/handle/2042/8538. 
*Translation in French will be provided.*

Send your proposal to Tom Dwyer ((tomdwyer /at/ terra.com.br)) 
<mailto:(tomdwyer /at/ terra.com.br)%29>and Olivier Arifon 
((Olivier.arifon /at/ ulb.ac.be)) <mailto:(Olivier.arifon /at/ ulb.ac.be)%29>under 
“yourname_Hermes_month_year.doc”

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Bien cordialement
Dr. Olivier Arifon, Consultant and Master trainer on « Influence, 
lobbying and communication » and « Soft power and diplomacy »,
Research fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles.

Tel 0032470624146
Skype : oarifon
be.linkedin.com/in/olivierarifon


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