[Commlist] CFP: PSA Media and Politics Group panels at the PSA Annual Conference

Political Studies Association, 72nd Annual International Conference
10 – 13 April 2022, University of York, #PSA22
Hybrid conference
Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: Wednesday, 29 September 2021 
(**Please note slightly extended deadline to send in your abstracts to 
(psampg /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(psampg /at/ gmail.com)> **)


The PSA Media and Politics Group invites members to submit paper 
abstracts or panel proposals for the PSA Media and Politics stream at 
the PSA Annual International Conference 2022.


Papers may be related to the conference theme, Politics from the 
Margins, but other topics from across the disciplinary and 
methodological traditions are also welcomed.


Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and panel proposals by email to 
the convenors at (psampg /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(psampg /at/ gmail.com)> by 
*Wednesday 29 September* (please note that this is an earlier deadline 
than the direct individual submission to the PSA). We also welcome 
emails earlier than this date to ask for our advice on potential panel 
proposals. We have a limited number of panels we can submit so we may 
not be able to include all submissions. Decisions about inclusion in the 
MPG panels will be communicated on Monday 4 October 2022, giving you 
until Monday 11 October 2022 to submit individually if you are unsuccessful.


The PSA uses the Ex Ordo system for online submissions. If your abstract 
is successful and included in the PSA MPG stream, we will provide 
further guidance on how to submit your abstract/panel proposal to ensure 
it is included in our allocated panels.


Please note that the 2022 PSA Annual International Conference is planned 
as a hybrid conference which blends the digital world and physical world 
together to produce the opportunities and interactions of a physical 
conference, with the added accessibility of an online conference.


On all submissions, please include an email address for the 
corresponding and the institutional affiliation. Please also indicate if 
you are a postgraduate student.


If you wish to propose a panel, please note for following stipulations 
from the organising committee:
· Panel proposals should include a panel overview (max. 300 words), 
outlining the title, synopsis, and chair details.
· Panels usually consist of three to four papers and a chair. A 
discussant is optional.
· Panels should aim to reflect the diversity of the profession, and 
all-male panels will not be considered.

Theme and further details:


*POLITICS FROM THE MARGINS*

The conference takes ‘the margins’ as a vantage point to investigate 
political issues and developments. As the world reels from one of its 
worst crises in a generation, issues, and actors hitherto at the margins 
of politics have forced their way to the mainstream. Issues of health 
and human development have compelled a radical rethinking of statehood, 
citizenship and political order. The salience to global politics of 
actors in Asia and Africa, often marginalized in the past, can no longer 
be ignored. Marginal seats can move to the centre of attention. 
Marginalised actors can make claims on the mainstream for a 
redistribution of power, status, and resources. Marginal risks — of 
financial crisis, epidemic, climate catastrophe — can take on major 
significance. Indeed, what is regarded as a mainstream and what as a 
marginal political issue is a point of significant contention and 
subject to changes which need to be mapped and investigated.


The conference invites reflection on shifting centres of power in the 
global, regional, national and subnational political order. Devolution, 
Brexit and ‘levelling up’ policies have compelled us to rethink the 
mainstream and the margins in British politics. The rise of the BRICS 
and other emerging markets force a reconceptualisation of mainstream and 
margin in global politics. Across the world, political subjects at the 
margins interrogate mainstream understandings and practices of politics 
and power. While marginalisation of some political subjects has become 
further entrenched, other previously dominant voices feel newly 
marginalised. How does politics change and who benefits when those who 
feel left out or behind make their voices heard? What mechanisms 
contribute to their silencing or to their move to alternative forms of 
politics? Finally, inspired by the growing calls for diversifying and 
decolonising research and teaching in politics, this PSA conference 
seeks to cast a critical and reflexive eye on political science 
scholarship by considering what or who is positioned on the margins 
within our scholarship and academic community and what could be gained 
by including marginalised perspectives, voices and topics. To that end, 
we invite contributions that help us to think not only ‘from’ but also 
‘with’ the margins, ‘against’ the margins or even ‘beyond’ the margins.

While the main theme of this conference is Politics from the Margins, 
the Media & Politics Group operates an open and inclusive policy, and 
empirical, theoretical, and practice-based research dealing with any 
aspect of media and politics is welcomed. This may include areas of 
political communication and journalism, but also includes a broader view 
of the political within such areas as online media, television, cinema 
and media arts, both factual and fictional.


Possible areas include:
- How might foundational theories for understanding contemporary 
political communication be adapted to include more marginal 
subjects/contexts?
- The role of various media in bringing marginal issues/voices to the 
mainstream
- The methodological challenges of researching media and politics from 
the margins
- Decolonising/diversifying political communication research
- The role of affect, emotion, and authenticity within political 
communication
- Disinformation, misinformation and threats to democratic health
- The opportunities and challenges of digital campaigning
- The media’s changing role in political communication practices and/or 
public diplomacy
- Datafication and challenges to democracy
- The rise of alternative political media and changing public attitudes 
towards mainstream media
- The role of social media platforms in mainstreaming marginalised 
groups/perspectives (for better or worse)
- Activism, social movements and the media
- The power of political satire, cartoons and memes
- The politics of representation across media genres
- Media, communication and inequality


Further information on registration fees and conference location can be 
found here:
https://www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa22-annual-conference 
<https://www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa22-annual-conference>


Further information on the PSA Media and Politics Group and details on 
how to join can be found here: 
https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/media-and-politics 
<https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/media-and-politics>


Follow the PSA Media and Politics Group on Twitter: 
https://twitter.com/psampg <https://twitter.com/psampg>

PSAMPG Convenors Dr Jen Birks (University of Nottingham), Professor Alec
Charles (University of Winchester), Dr James Dennis (University of
Portsmouth), Dr Emily Harmer (University of Liverpool), Dr Katy Parry
(University of Leeds)

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