Dear All,
The EASA Media Anthropology Network will be launching its next E-Seminar on Tuesday the 25th at 00:00 GMT. The E-Seminars run for a period of 2 weeks over the Network's mailing list and they are vibrant spaces for discussion and confrontation on a specific working paper.
For the 58th E-Seminar we will be discussing the following paper by
Dr Alex Khasnabish (Mount Saint Vincent University) and Dr John Postill (RMIT University, Australia) will be acting as discussant.
On Media Practices and the Radical Imagination
The radical imagination is the collective, dialogic capacity to envision how the world might be otherwise that sparks between people in the context of generative, critical encounters. It is also the animating force of robust, radical movements for social change. What media channels does the radical imagination travel and what is their significance? How do these different pathways shape, facilitate, or constrain the radical imagination and impact movement-building? Drawing on research conducted with radical social justice activists in the Anglophone North Atlantic over the last decade, I explore the relationship between activist media use and the circulation of the radical imagination. I consider "media" expansively, looking across a range of channels and practices including documentary film screenings, social and digital media, community discussion groups, speaker's series, print publications, and spectacles of dissent and resistance. I pay particular attention to the way that different media practices amplify or undermine the ability of radical activists and organizers to communicate with those beyond the ranks of the already-convinced. I conclude by considering important directions for engaged research in this area and the methodological issues they pose.
You find the paper and all necessary information on how to participate to the E-Seminar at:
http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars
All the best,
Philipp
for the EASA Media Anthropology Network
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