[ecrea] CFP: Who sets the Public Agenda? The Cultural and Creative Industries in the era of populism

*CFP: Who sets the Public Agenda? The Cultural and Creative Industries 
in the era of populism
*

The intense and accelerated political shifts that have marked the global 
political landscape in recent years have been met with a rise of voices 
from the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). Celebrities, singers, 
actors and industry representatives have spoken out against—or for—the 
rise of far-right and conservative leaderships encouraging people to 
incite social and political change. For example, this has been visible 
from mainstream movie stars and pop singers bandying together (‘Holy 
sh*t (You’ve got to vote)’, ‘I will survive’); grime artists backing 
#Grime4Corbyn to remixers like Cassetteboy; celebrities standing against 
Trump (Save the Day, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Jesse Williams, etc.); 
César Awards, l’ARP, and Luc Besson, the French filmmaker, standing 
against Le Pen and supporting Macron; Podemos using music and the 
discourses of Game of Thrones during their campaign; Italy’s Five Star 
Movement being started by a popular comedian and blogger; Syriza being 
supported by a number of creative industries’ unions before their 
election in 2015; game developers producing games that deal with 
contentious issues that ignite social change, to name only a few examples.
The convergence of these diverse populist tactics in the CCIs has 
created new modalities, leading to a point whereby CCIs are more than 
ever shaping the public agenda. The multi-dimensional role the CCIs play 
in ‘going political’, as well as the ways that this is shaping current 
political movements, warrants further academic attention.

We invite working papers for a one-day workshop held on *Friday 8th June 
2018* at the /Idea Store in Whitechapel/, London, which aims to explore 
the links between recent modes of populism and the cultural and creative 
industries.
Topics could include but are not limited to:
• Commodifying resistance
• Political consumerism
• Corporate activism
• Celebrity activism
• Grenfell and grime
• Hollywood and Trump
• Games4change
• Representing social inequalities
• Representing and producing woke nation
• Cultural and creative industries and populism
• Histories of the cultural and creative industries and populism

Please send a short bio and a 100 word abstracts to 
/(photini.vrikki /at/ brunel.ac.uk) <mailto:(photini.vrikki /at/ brunel.ac.uk)>,/ 
/(sara.debenedictis /at/ brunel.ac.uk) <mailto:(sara.debenedictis /at/ brunel.ac.uk)> 
/and /(mariza.dima /at/ brunel.ac.uk)/ <mailto:(mariza.dima /at/ brunel.ac.uk)> by 
*14th May*.
Notifications of acceptance: *25th May*.
/This workshop offers a small budget for ECR travel. If you would like 
to be considered for a travel bursary please indicate it in your bio./

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