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CFP: Cultural Narratives of 21st-Century Disaster
| Call for Papers Date: | 2012-05-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-04-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
193721 |
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In the twenty-first century, large-scale disasters are inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations and widespread spectator communities. This is especially true in light of the emergence of transnational, convergent media environments that employ highly standardized "breaking news" and follow-up reporting protocols and in view of the millennial dispersion and normalization of notions of “the risk society.”
This project calls for closer examination of the representations of recent disasters in traditional and digital media, particularly online communication forms such as blogging and social networks. We seek articles that consider how disasters illuminate the affective and ideological positions that media both construct and reflect. Rather than reifying the “natural” status of natural disasters, this project throws open the constructed status of such claims, seeking examinations of so-called natural, humanitarian, and man-made disasters and questioning what is at stake in such attributions.
We welcome interdisciplinary humanities interventions that consider large-scale 21st-century disasters in terms of topics such as the following:
- questions of citizenship and civic engagement
- notions of national identity that are troubled/contested through disaster representation
- suffering and its portrayals in news, digital culture, and fiction film and television
- affective responses to disaster in local, national, and global contexts
- celebrity humanitarianism and disaster relief engagement
- representations of home and homelessness in the context of mass displacement
- the contested distinctions between man-made and natural disaster
- disaster capitalism and its manifestations in public, private, and nonprofit responses to disaster
- the ideological and financial interests of global capitalism in the recovery process
Please send 400-word abstracts and a short bio to both Julia Leyda and Diane Negra by May 30, 2012. Completed articles will be developed later in 2012.
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