Please resend this call for essays to those who may be interested in it

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De: Editorial Staff Cinema&Cie [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Enviada em: terça-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2016 07:26
Assunto: Cinéma & Cie - Call for Essays: Scattered Subalternities: Transnationalism, Globalization, and Power

Dear Friends,

we are glad to inform you that the CFE for the 27th issue of our journal, which is entitled "Scattered Subalternities:
Transnationalism, Globalization, and Power", and would be edited by Ilaria A. De Pascalis, Judith Keilbach and Maria Francesca Piredda, has been issued.
The CFE can be accessed from the following link or below:
http://cinemaetcie.net/2016/01/27/cfe27/


All the best,
Francesco Di Chiara and Valentina Re (for the Editorial Staff)

Scattered Subalternities: Transnationalism, Globalization, and Power

Edited by Ilaria A. De Pascalis, Judith Keilbach and Maria Francesca Piredda

Deadline for abstract proposal: April 30, 2016

Since its worldwide diffusion in the 1980s, postcolonial theory has questioned the problematic location of subalternity in cultural products and in the materiality of everyday life vis-à-vis the position reserved for the hegemonic subject – described as coherent, uniform, auto-determined, Western, individualistic, efficient, and so on. Despite its continued actuality and urgency, however, the figure of the Other/Subaltern has largely disappeared as a central concern from public discourse of the last few years. In the meantime, discussions of subalternity have fragmented and scattered across various academic disciplines, art projects, and (sub)cultural practices.

This special issue of Cinéma&Cie aims at picking up and tying together these now far-flung discussions to reconsider the location of the Other/Subaltern within the contemporary world. It seeks to address a number of fundamental questions: Who is the Other/Subaltern in the global frame? Is the Other/Subaltern entitled to agency? How is s/he related to her/his communities? What aspects contribute to the configuration of the Other/Subaltern, and are there current changes that affect the concept of the Other/Subaltern? To discuss these questions we invite contributions that deal with theoretical as well as artistic reflections on and media representations of subalternity and alterity.

The world produced by globalization is not a homogeneous and neutral space opened to individual action, but is made of interactive networks. These grids and currents continuously overlap with one another, are produced through an asymmetric distribution of power, and give different access to different subjects (S. Sassen). Nation-states are not weakened by this dynamic; to the contrary, the global flows often confer new strength upon them. Moreover, the states now emerge as “fortresses”; their interactions and tensions thus require a properly transnational approach to be read (Ch.T. Mohanty).

However, the defined borders of the hegemonic positions must confront the possibilities opened by identity models and cultural contents gaining a new power; in such a scenario, the forms of creative acquisition and artistic production of the Other/Subaltern become part of popular and public discourses. The contemporary metropolis can be specifically read as a laboratory for the multiplicity of cultural production in the global world; for instance, the diasporic subjects relocate themselves in the urban tissue, creating new networks of influence and exchange. In this sense, they can even reconfigure their “culture of origin” through an orthodox lens, generating a “fanatic” narrative of themselves (A. Appadurai).

The special issue will consider the role of the postcolonial theoretical framework and the eventuality of a reflection on neocolonialism as still efficacious, if not essential, tools to interpret the contemporary world. Contributors are therefore invited to take into consideration theoretical issues as well as specific case studies related (but not limited) to these themes:

The necessity of remapping the positions of Subalternity and/or Alterity beyond the traditional reflections of anthropology and older postcolonial theories (e.g., the need for a renewal of Gramsci’s dialectic between hegemonic and subaltern positions, considering their political implications for the global scenario; or the new focus toward the unconscious as site of subversion in relation to the uncontrollable proliferation of phantoms, phantasies, and desires and the role attributed to jouissance in neoliberalism).
The new models of configuration for subalternity and alterity, open to multi-sensorial and synesthetic dimensions of contemporary cultural expression.
The configuration of subalternity and alterity by media narratives and by ideas of identity and (the impossibility of) belonging, addressing both media products included within or excluded from the entertainment industries.
The relationship between dislocation and media devices and practices.
The forms of cultural and artistic (self-)production generated by subaltern subjects in relation to both the hegemonic industrial system and the tradition of independent production.
The mainstream configurations of subalternity and alterity produced by hegemonic cultural industries, with particular attention to the representation politics of global conglomerates.

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Contributors can send their abstract (300-500 words, 5 keywords, and 5 bibliographical references) and a short biographical note (150 words) to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by April 30, 2016. All notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than June 1, 2016. If accepted, 4,000 word essays will then be required for peer review by September 1, 2016.

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