[Commlist] CFP M/C Journal 'Cities'

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A reminder that Christina Ballico and Dr Allan Watson are co-editing an 
upcoming issue of M/C Journal on 'Cities'. Details of the topics they're 
interested in are below. Abstracts are due ASAP, with final 3000 word 
articles due April 15, 2022 and the issue to be published June 2022. We 
also have plans to develop this issue into an edited collection after 
the fact.

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*We also strongly encourage you to send your abstracts ASAP as we have 
limited spaces available.*

Please contact Christina off-list should you have any further questions, 
and please submit your abstracts and bios via 
(cities /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au) 
<mailto:(cities /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au)>

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*M/C Journal: 'Cities' CFP*

Over the past 20 years, interest in the ways in which cities might be 
re-imagined and place-branded through specific creative and cultural 
identities and activities has increased exponentially (Landry; 
Andersson; Evans; Grodach), with urban policy-makers in particular 
seeking to find ways to leverage these identities to drive a range of 
urban development, economic, heritage, and tourism initiatives 
(Richards; Baker; Martinez; Ballico and Watson). In turn, significant 
attention has been given to the vital contribution creative workers make 
to the creative, cultural, and economic fabric of cities, with policies 
aimed at attracting these workers becoming a central tenet of many 
creative city strategies (Florida). To this end, urban development 
strategies prefaced on the enactment of a range of ‘creative’ and 
‘cultural’ frameworks are commonplace in cities across the world. 
Examples of this include the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, which 
encompasses creative sectors as diverse as Crafts and Folk Art, Design, 
Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Media Arts, and Music (Ballico and 
Carter), as well as other sector-specific frameworks such as the global 
music cities movement (Baker; Ballico and Watson). Considering the 
emergence, circulation, and adoption of these policy frameworks, as well 
as more broadly the ways in which creative and cultural identities can 
be leveraged through place activation strategies, we invite 
contributions that provide, although are not limited to:

  * Critical evaluations of city-specific impacts of creative and
    cultural cities frameworks and their capacity to support urban
    regeneration and social and economic development, including the
    UNESCO Creative Cities Network, other international or national
    frameworks such as City of Culture awards, as well as localised
    initiatives.
  * Critical appraisals of city-specific cultural policies and
    regulatory frameworks which might support and/or inhibit particular
    forms of creative and cultural initiatives and activities., both in
    the short and long term.
  * Critical accounts of the reimaging of cities through specific
    cultural sectors or particular creative and artistic works or
    artists, in particular in ways which engage place activation and/or
    creative documentation strategies.
  * Consideration of the ways in which creative, cultural, and music
    city policy frameworks might be re-worked, re-imagined, or
    re-invigorated in order to provide more equitable forms of urban,
    social, and economic development in cities post the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from scholars 
working outside of, or otherwise researching cities outside of, the 
global west, and submissions on cities that are under-represented in the 
extant literature. Providing accounts of a geographically diverse range 
of cities is a priority of this issue.

Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a 
brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the 
article title and should describe your research question, approach, and 
argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) 
and should include your institutional affiliation and research 
interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All 
articles will be double-blind refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th 
edition). It is our intention to invite selected authors to extend these 
papers at a later date for the purposes of producing an edited volume.


      Details

  * Article deadline: 15 Apr. 2022
  * Release date: 15 June 2022
  * Editors: Christina Ballico and Allan Watson

Please submit articles through this Website. Send any enquiries to 
(cities /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au) 
<mailto:(cities /at/ journal.media-culture.org.au)>.

<http://linkedin.com/in/christinaballico>
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