CALL FOR PAPERS
POPULAR CULTURE & WORLD POLITICS v. 10: Beyond Boundaries
www.pcwpv10.wordpress.com
@PCWP10

23-25 November, 2017

Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Deadline for submission of paper, panel, and roundtable abstracts: 7 July, 2017

A decade on since the first conference was hosted by Bristol University, popular culture and world politics (PCWP) continues to grow as a subfield in international relations. While initial concerns focused on representation and inter-textuality to ascertain how popular culture might help us to understand power and the sites through which it circulates, more recent work has begun to explore the materiality of popular culture and how its embodiment may also contribute to global political dynamics. Crucially, both representation and materiality raise questions about how to capture key relationships between culture and power and the means through which these become recognised. Thus, for PCWP to advance, it is important to go beyond disciplinary boundaries. There is much to learn from other fields who have also engaged with the ways culture, the popular, and power are intertwined.

The general motivations of this conference are to continue to unpack how popular culture might matter to world politics, when it might matter, where it might matter, to whom it might matter, and how its myriad influences might be assessed and/or perceived. To these ends, PCWP v. 10 aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogues across the humanities, arts, social sciences, and sciences for scholars with interests at the intersections of the cultural, political, social, and/or economic in the making of worlds.  It will bring together leading and emerging scholars who are currently exploring the state of the art in their respective disciplines with regards to the mutual constitution of popular culture and world politics.

A central concern of the conference is to empower researchers across disciplines and to foster dialogues across disciplinary and methodological boundaries. Thus we aim to offer a supportive and developmental environment for researchers from all career stages, institutional homes, theoretical backgrounds, and methodological orientations. We would be especially interested in contributions by researchers working in or on the Global South, in post- or de-colonial contexts, or on indigeneity. In other words, studies that challenge narrow conceptions of "popular culture", that explore the emergence of "popular" political subjects through engagements with practices and artefacts from diverse situations, and that examine different images of "world" politics from the dominant received view are encouraged. 

Submission Instructions:

A full text version of the call for papers can be found at https://pcwpv10.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ 

Abstract submissions may include individual papers, panels, or roundtables. Each panel/roundtable submission should include 5 papers/presenters.

For individual papers please include your contact details. For panel and roundtable submissions please include the contact details for all participants as well as the convener.

Submissions should be sent to [log in to unmask]  

Please include paper/panel/roundtable information in the body of the email and/or as an attachment in PDF format.

We aim to inform proposers on the status of their submissions by 21 July, 2017.

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