[Commlist] CFP || Global Media and China_Special Issue_China and the Global South: Interrogating Imperialist Ambitions

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*Special Issue: China and the Global South: Interrogating Imperialist 
Ambitions*
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*Guest Editors: *

*Stuart Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, 
City University of New York, Baruch College *

  ((stuart.davis /at/ baruch.cuny.edu) <mailto:(stuart.davis /at/ baruch.cuny.edu)>)


*Time Schedule:*

*_—December 10, 2022:_ *a 1,000-word abstract and a 100-word bio, 
mentioning the title of the special issue in the subject line, to the 
guest editor: (stuart.davis /at/ baruch.cuny.edu) 
<mailto:(stuart.davis /at/ baruch.cuny.edu)>

*_—10 January 2023:_ *accepted abstracts notified

_—01 May 2023:_**full paper submission

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*Overview: ***
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This proposed special issue raises a question linked to the single most 
pivotal shift in the contemporary international relations: How do 
transformations in the media and technological landscapes of the Global 
South reflect China’s rise as the primary contemporary challenger to 
American economic and political hegemony? In addressing this question, 
contributions will help provide insight into a conflict that the US 
State Department (2021) has recently labelled the “most significant case 
of great-power competition in the 21st century”; a so-called "new Cold 
War" that has manifested across sectors ranging from resource extraction 
to telecommunications. Given their strategic role during and after the 
Cold War along with their histories of political conflict and economic 
disadvantage, nations within the Global South are key sites of economic 
and political conflict for larger states attempting to exercise economic 
and political influence. In the case of China, many pundits and 
academics (particularly in the US) have labelled its recent expansion 
into the Global South as "China's new age of imperialism" (French, 
2014), arguing that it is using its economic and political strength to 
impose its will on "weaker" nations. In a similar vein, within 
communication and media studies critics have designated China's 
purported domination a form of “technological imperialism” (Greene and 
Triolo, 2021) wherein financial or technical support provides a wedge 
for commercial market domination and opens the door to increased 
cultural influence. Pushing against these dystopian views of Chinese 
globalization, others have argued that Chinese-oriented development 
portends a more egalitarian approach, particularly in the Global South. 
This expansion, in the words of political economist Giovanni Arrighi, 
offers "the promise of a global order based on economic interdependence 
but respectful to political and cultural differences" (Arrighi 2008, p. 
379).

Building on the trailblazing work of Yan (2020), Davis and Xiao (2021), 
and a scant few others, this proposed special issue will turn to media 
and communication processes in the Global South in an attempt to move 
beyond sweeping claims about the impact of Chinese globalization. In 
this vein, we welcome empirical investigations of how the Chinese state 
and Chinese media and technology corporations are expanding in 
Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and other parts of Southeast Asia. 
Contributors might address topics related to Chinese development 
initiatives in media or telecommunications infrastructure, cultural 
diplomacy and soft power, the expansion of Chinese-owned platforms, and 
other topics related to China's increasingly powerful role in 
telecommunications, ICT, news, and other media industries. Relatedly, 
contributions that deal with media responses to Chinese-led development 
are also welcome, including those that interrogate local responses such 
as heightened Sinophobia.


References:

Albuquerque, A., Oliveira, T. dos Santos Jr., R., Quinan, R. and Mazur, 
D. (Forthcoming). Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations. 
/Convergence. /(Forthcoming, Fall 2022).

Arrighi, G. (2008). /Adam Smith In Beijing: Lineages of the 21^st 
 Century./ New York: Verso.

Davis, S. (2020). More than “a little flu": Digital advocacy journalism 
and the struggle for health justice in Brazil under COVID-19. In Peter 
Van Aelst and Jay Blumler

             (eds.). /Political Communication in the Time of 
Coronavirus. /New York: Routledge.

Davis, M., and Xiao, J. (2021). De-Westernizing platform studies: 
History and logics of Chinese and  U.S. platforms. /International 
Journal of Communication/

French, H. (2014). /China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are 
Building a New Empire //in Africa. /New York: Vintage Books.

Greene, R. and Triolo, M. (2021) Will China control the Global Internet 
via its digital Silk Road? The Carnegie Fund, December 11, 2021.

Liu, H. (2022). China engages the Global South: From Bandung to the Belt 
and Road Initiative. / Global Policy/ 13 (1): 11-22.

Mirrlees, T. (2022). Sanctioning China’s technology industry to secure 
Silicon Valley’s global dominance. In Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness. 
(eds.). /Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on US 
Geo-economic Strategy/. Leiden/Chicago: Brill.

US Department of State (2020). Elements of the China Challenge. 
Available at: 
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20-02832-Elements-of-China-Challenge- 
<https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20-02832-Elements-of-China-Challenge->508.pdf

Wasserman, H. (2016). China's “soft power” and its influence on 
editorial agendas in South Africa. /Chinese Journal of 
Communication/9:1, 8-20, DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2015.1049953

Yan, Xuetong. (2020). Bipolar rivalry in the early digital age. /The 
Chinese Journal of International //Politics/ 13 (3):313-341. DOI: 
10.1093/cjip/poaa007


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