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Building Walls in a Borderless World
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-12-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-10-06 |
| Announcement ID: |
164412 |
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USC School of Cinematic Arts, Critical Studies -- Spectator Special Issue:
Building Walls in a Borderless World: Old and New Media, Globalization and Human (im)Mobility Volume 29, Number 1 (Spring 2009)
Spectator is a biannual publication and submissions that address this topic are now invited for submission. Persons from a variety of fields that engage with the study and analysis of media are encouraged to submit:
The movement of persons across different regions has been a central component to the building and disintegration of communities and empires throughout the history of humankind. This issue seeks to address the relationship between media and the regulation of human travel in different time periods. Whether the experience of travel is voluntary, forced or restricted, questions of human immigration and mobility actively shape and influence different utopian and dystopian views of globalization that energize (explicitly or implicitly) current studies of media. This issue seeks to encourage a debate to explore and discuss the relationship between media and the movement and regulation of people across borders, regions, and nations.
●The representation and/or mediation in a variety of media of the enforcement and/or building and/or strengthening of national borders.
●The ways in which media have represented -and communication technologies have shaped- past and present attempts to build national and/or regional borders and regulate human travel.
●The relationship between national, ethnic, sexual, racial, class, gender and/or religious identities and the representation of borders, walls, divisions in a variety of media (film, television, video, digital media, radio, etc.)
●How are borders represented in media in the US and abroad? (E.g., Israel-Palestine, US-Mexico, India-Pakistan borders, Russia-Georgia and beyond).
●How do communication technologies (including but not limited to the internet, surveillance cameras, and mobile phones) influence the architecture of national borders and/or walls. Relating to this, how do digital communications facilitate, disrupt, and complicate, the undocumented immigration, terrorist activity or other forms of "illegal" forms of travel?
●What are the links between the ways various media present immigration policies/discourse and its effect or influence on racism and/or xenophobia?
●How do various media present who or what is/are allowed to cross borders freely in relation to those who/that are not?
●How do different media address or ignore the violence involved in the enforcement of the borders?
●Essays that discuss the representation of illegal trafficking of drugs and/or humans (e.g.: undocumented immigrants, mail order brides, sex-trade).
●How are bodies represented in relation to immigration and border crossing? Such as (but not limited to) bodily and/or mental traumas, transformations, disfigurations, rape, accidents, etc.
●How are anxieties regarding the immigration of undocumented immigrants embodied in mainstream media (fiction and nonfiction)? In other words, how do generic or format conventions of particular films, television programs, video games, etc. facilitate or complicate this representation? These may include genres such as horror, disaster films, and political thrillers, among many others.
●What is the relationship (if any) between shifts in global relations and emerging, changing or continuing trends in video game aesthetics, video game narratives and/or genres (such as first-person or third person shooters, adventure, strategy, role-playing, etc.)?
●What are the shifts (if any) in representations of the Middle East, Latin America, Asia in US media in relation to current and/or past political discourse and the history of US relations and interests in these regions?
●Lastly, how does the actual experience of forced, voluntary or limited travel influence our approach to media and globalization?
Submission Information
Queries about submissions should be emailed to the issue editor Jaime J. Nasser at nasser@usc.edu
Essay contributions should not be more than 5,000 words. All pages should be numbered consecutively. They should also include a brief abstract for publicity. Authors should also include a brief biographic entry. Articles submitted to the Spectator should not be under consideration by any other journal.
Book reviews on related topics may vary in length (300 to 1,000 words). Please include title of the book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new archival or research facilities or methods as well as other relevant works related to the field.
Electronic submissions and formatting (preferred): Authors should send copies of their work via e-mail as electronic attachments. Please keep backup files. Files should be Microsoft Word in PC or Mac format, depending on the editor's preference. Endnotes should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all contributors as to image and text requirements.
Mailed printed submissions: One copy of the manuscript should be submitted as well as a copy on disk (Microsoft Word, PC or Mac). Manuscripts should include the title of the contribution and the name(s) of authors. As well as the postal address, e-mail address, and phone numbers for the author who will work with the editor on any revisions. Please note that rejected, mailed manuscripts and materials will not be returned. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:
University of Southern California
School of Cinematic Arts, Critical Studies
Lucas Building, Room 405
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
Attn: Jaime J. Nasser
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University of Southern California
School of Cinematic Arts, Critical Studies
Lucas Building, Room 405
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
Attn: Jaime J. Nasser
nasser@usc.edu
Email: nasser@usc.edu
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