[ecrea] CFP on Global Tastes. The Transnational Spread of non-Anglo-American Culture

> Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
>
> Special Issue on Global Tastes: The Transnational Spread of 
> non-Anglo-American Culture 
> <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/poetics/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-global-tastes-the-transnational-spread-of-no>
>
> Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2017
>
> **
>
> Guest editors: Simone Varriale (University of Warwick, UK), Noa Lavie 
> (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel)**
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Globalization’s cultural effects have gained significant attention in 
> the sociology of culture. Especially from the early 2000s, a growing 
> literature on transnationally-connected cultural sectors has started 
> exploring the asymmetries of economic and symbolic power between 
> ‘centers’ and ‘peripheries’ of cultural production, the role of 
> gatekeepers and organizations in mediating globalization processes, and 
> the limits of cultural imperialism as an exhaustive framework for 
> interpreting cultural globalization. Similarly, consumption studies have 
> started focusing on preferences for globally spread cultural products, 
> suggesting that theories of cultural hybridity need to pay more 
> attention to how class and other inequalities influence practices of 
> appropriation.
>
> Despite these contributions, research on ‘global’ tastes and new, 
> transnational forms of cultural capital remains limited to some cases of 
> European high culture - like French literature - and to American and 
> British popular culture. Consumption research has focused on the growing 
> significance of Anglo-American pop music and television on a 
> transnational scale, but it has paid little attention to other forms of 
> global taste - e.g. Japanese anime and manga, South Korean cinema, 
> Brazilian bossa nova, reggae music - and their role in different 
> national and local contexts. Similarly, research on cultural production 
> has considered mostly the American and European centers of 
> well-established cultural sectors, like literature, television and 
> popular music. It is evident, however, that other contexts, 
> transnational connections and networks remain to be explored, and that 
> the impact of globalization on other fields, sub-fields and genres - 
> e.g. gaming, comics, hip hop, reality TV - is underresearched.
>
> Since cultural sociology has dealt mostly with the consequences of 
> Americanization, it remains difficult to construct a clear and precise 
> definition of what ‘global taste’ is and what it contains, and to 
> understand which actors and networks sustain these forms of distinction 
> and, potentially, cultural capital. We provisionally define global 
> taste as a taste for non-national cultural products and genres, one made 
> possible by transnational networks of producers, mediators and 
> consumers, as well as by cross-national connections between cultural 
> fields, policy makers and/or political institutions. Likewise, we wish 
> to adopt a broad, inclusive definition of global culture, one that moves 
> cultural sociology beyond its focus on the US, the UK and West/North 
> Europe, and which helps develop the concept of global taste beyond its 
> Anglo- and Euro-centric premises.
>
> This Call for Papers thus encourages original, empirically-based 
> contributions that explore the production and global spread of African, 
> Asian, Australasian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American 
> cultural forms, and their consumption, mediation and evaluation in a 
> variety of national, regional and local contexts. Our definition of 
> global taste also includes the cultural practices of migrant populations 
> and their descendants, and we also welcome research about the 
> transnational circulation of culture produced in peripheral and 
> semi-peripheral European contexts - i.e. East and South European 
> countries - as these remain underresearched in cultural sociology.
>
> LINES OF INQUIRY
>
> We seek contributions focusing on the ways in which non-Anglo-American 
> culture is produced, circulated, consumed and evaluated around the 
> globe. Papers engaging with issues of cultural production, consumption, 
> mediation and diffusion are hence welcome, and papers updating or 
> revising established theories of cultural research - e.g. art worlds, 
> field theory, neo-institutionalism, production of culture - are 
> particularly encouraged. We are also interested in work that draws 
> innovative connections between these established approaches and new 
> areas of social theorizing, such as post-colonialism, decolonial theory, 
> transnationalism and cosmopolitanism.
>
> We welcome papers focusing on all actors, organizations and/or 
> networks**involved with the aforementioned processes, and analyzing the 
> meanings, aesthetic values and boundaries of globally-oriented tastes, 
> including their relationship with cosmopolitan, nationalist and/or 
> localist discourses, and with different social groups - in terms of 
> class, gender and age, as well as nationality, ethnicity and race.
>
> INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
>
> The deadline for proposals is 15 September 2017. We ask for a 1500-word 
> abstract including the following: research questions, theoretical 
> framing, and description of the paper’s methodology - including a 
> specification of whether the data is already collected.
>
> Please email your abstracts to Simone Varriale ((s.varriale /at/ warwick.ac.uk) 
> <mailto:(s.varriale /at/ warwick.ac.uk)>) and Noa Lavie ((lavie /at/ mta.ac.il) 
> <mailto:(lavie /at/ mta.ac.il)>). Please also include your institutional 
> affiliation and a brief biography (max 100 words). Complete manuscripts, 
> if ready, can also be submitted at this stage.
>
> Authors will be notified by mid-October. Proposals will be selected by 
> the Special Issue’s editors - Dr Simone Varriale and Dr Noa Lavie - and 
> by the editors of Poetics.
>
> The deadline for submission of complete manuscripts is 15 April 2018. 
> Papers will be subject to an internal and external round of 
> peer-reviewing. The Special Issue is expected to be published in 2019.
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