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Please join us at the CAMRI seminar in Central London next week. Making Race in the Cultural Industries Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths, University of London) Date: Thursday, 8.11.2018 Time: 17.00-19.00 Place: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HW Room: RS 354 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-race-in-the-cultural-industries-tickets-50164689938 Studies of race, media and ideology have long demonstrated how racial and ethnic minorities are represented in deeply damaging ways - either demonised, exoticised or rendered invisible. But such research, nearly always textual in nature, has been unable to offer an effective political response - other than to demand 'authentic' stories or representations. In this contribution, Anamik Saha calls for a 'cultural industries' approach to studying race and racism in the media. Challenging purely textual cultural studies accounts of representation, he will argue that a radical cultural political programme is absolutely contingent upon production strategies – that is, an effective ‘politics of production’. Situating the issue of representation explicitly within a cultural industries framework gives us a more nuanced and complex understanding of the ideological role of the media in the making of race, which in turn leads to a broader understanding of the governance of racial and ethnic identities under neoliberalism. Biography Anamik Saha is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. After completing his PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, Anamik worked in the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds, firstly as an ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, then as a Lecturer in Communications. He has held visiting fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Trinity College, Connecticut. Anamik’s research interests are in race and the media, with a particular focus on cultural production and the cultural industries. He has had his work published in journals including Media, Culture and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. With David Hesmondhalgh (2013) he co-edited a special issue of Popular Communication on race and ethnicity in cultural production, and with Dave O’Brien, Kim Allen and Sam Friedman (2017) he co-edited a special issue of Cultural Sociology on inequalities in the cultural industries. His new book Race and the Cultural Industries was published in 2018 by Polity Press. Further CAMRI Autumn Seminars: Thursday, 22 November 2018 - Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics) Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowered-popular-feminism-and-popular-misogyny-tickets-50165074087 Thursday, 29 November 2018 - Colin Sparks (Hong Kong Baptist University) The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Newspaper Press in Mainland China https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-impact-of-digital-technologies-on-the-newspaper-press-in-mainland-china-tickets-50165500362 Thursday, 6 December 2018 - Yasemin Ýnceođlu (Turkey) Media Coverage of Hate Speech and Discriminative Discourse in Turkey https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-coverage-of-hate-speech-and-discriminative-discourse-in-turkey-tickets-50165848403 The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. ------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA Policy mailing list W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list.