Dear all,
Call for papers: Television and material culture: attuning the senses and locating politics in socialist and post-socialist contexts
Panel at the conference Material Cultures of Television, University of Hull, Monday and Tuesday, 21st – 22nd March 2016.
Our panel opens up the subject of television, performance, consumption and materiality to scholars whose work focuses on socialist and post-socialist topics. How do these materials create specific affective states, defining these social contexts? The intertwining of socialist ideology, state control over communication and consumption, and a black market of visual and material culture created a specific affective space during the socialist period. After the 1990s, the visual sensibilities of people living in Eastern Europe and former USSR countries have been subject to a hyperinflation of visual material, through private television channels and the change in the market economy. The new material realities were constituted by an invasion of goods (flowing from Asia or Turkey as much as Western Europe) and a visual culture that often emphasised a certain morality of consumption. The study of consumption and material culture during the socialist and post-socialist periods have shed light on everyday life, the lived consequences of politics and the nitty-gritty of the making and ‘unmaking of Soviet life’ (Humphrey 2002). Our panel invites speakers to address such socialist and post-socialist sensibilities through television production and consumption, highlighting the spectacle of ‘socialism’, or ‘transition’ or ‘the market economy’.
We are interested in papers that explore a variety of themes, among which:
- the interplay between visual economies available through television programmes and the materiality of former socialist countries;
- the material aspects television production and consumption;
- the spaces of TV consumption in socialism and post-socialism – be that the house of culture, a living room with a TV set that gathered the entire neighbourhood, the
intimacy of the family, or niche television and individually-oriented programmes;
- internationalism, global flows of visual culture;
- remembering and recycling the visual past in post-socialism.
Please send your proposals to Alexandra Urdea ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Alexandru Matei ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) before the 15th of November.
Kind regards,
Dr. Alexandra Urdea
Associate Lecturer,
Goldsmiths, University of London
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