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(Image)ining Resistance
CALL FOR PAPERS
Editors: Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
We are seeking contributions for a collection of essays tentatively titled (Image)ining Resistance. Our aim is to encourage interdisciplinary approaches and critical examinations that address the use of visual imagery in social and activist movements throughout history. From banners embroidered for suffragette actions, to the impact of photographs taken in Soweto in 1976, to political puppets created for recent global justice demonstrations, the intersections between visual culture and activism relate a rich history with transnational and transideological import. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, as are essays addressing a wide range of historical periods, geographic regions and protest actions.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- the image as a tool of persuasion
- the image as a site of resistance
- “activist” art
- anarchist art
- media coverage of protests and demonstrations
- protest as performance
- culture jamming
- historical analyses of art and protest
Please submit a 500 word abstract and one page c.v., including name and email address to the e-mail address below by August 1, 2004.
Though we prefer email submissions, snail mail submissions can be sent to:
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