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> H-ASIA
> January 21, 2011
>
> Terror and Media - Call for papers for a special issue of Journal of South
> Asian Popular Culture
> ******************************************************************
> From:Ronie Parciack parciack@post.tau.ac.il
>
> A Special Issue of South Asian Popular Culture will be published in July
> 2013 on:
>
> Terror and Media
>
> Guest Editors: Ritu G. Khanduri and Ronie Parciack
>
> The spectacular 26/11/2008 attacks on Mumbai brought South Asia to the
> forefront of (western) discourse on terrorism. International and internal
> media coverage consociated the Mumbai calamity with the spectacular 9/11
> attacks by terming the Mumbai tragedy "India's 9/11." Several assessments
> denied The South-Asian context and subordinated it to Western history and
> conceptualizations. Public resentment of such analysis was articulated by
> Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy among others, who called for decolonizing
> the media coverage, in other words to contextualizing the issue of
> terrorism within specific South Asian frameworks.
>
> This special issue aims at exploring pivotal theoretical and
> socio-political concepts related to representations of terror in
> contemporary South Asian visual cultures. Our aim is to lay the groundwork
> for a critical reexamination of terror and media in the South Asian
> context, and contribute to three interconnected areas of analytical
> import: 1. the theoretical debate on terrorism within South Asian
> conceptualizations and contexts; 2. a reconsideration of identity
> formations, cultural constructs and nationalism; and 3. the mass mediation
> of terror.
> South Asian Popular Culture invites paper proposals critically converging
> around terror and media across South Asia.
>
> Though not limited to these questions, we anticipate paper proposals to
> address:
>
> - What is Terror in the South-Asian context? Does the South Asian media
> provide a background for alternative definitions - or theorization - of
> terror?
> - How does the South Asian context challenge or negotiate the dominant
> readings of terror offered by Western theorists such as Slavoj Žižek,
> Alain Badiou and Jean Baudrillard? Can the South-Asian context provide us
> with a different orientation than the dominant psychoanalytical prism of
> Western cultural studies?
> - How is terror represented in South Asian contexts, and how do South
> Asian societies visually redefine themselves in the era of terror?
> - How does the era of terror challenge or recontextualize identity
> formations across South Asia?
> - How does the era of terror recontextualize concepts such as nationalism,
> sovereignty, nonviolence, youth, gender, body, order/disorder, the
> dynamics of East/West, local/global and notions of exchange?
> - Historically, does the South Asian mass media provide a framework for
> conceptualizing the sensations and spectacles associated with terror?
>
> We are looking for critical essays, which should be 5,000-6,000 words, and
> pieces for the "Working Notes," which could be interviews with artists,
> reviews of works and photo essays, ranging from 1,000 - 3,000 words each.
>
> Please email a 300 word proposal and a 150 word bio in a MS word
> attachment to jsapc@gmail.com by 30 April, 2011.
> Initial review decision will be notified by 15 August, 2011.
> Selected proposals should be submitted as complete Manuscripts no later
> than 15 January, 2012.
>
> All manuscripts will undergo peer review, based on initial editor
> screening.
> Manuscripts should not be under consideration by another publication at
> the time of submission.
>
> For additional information about South Asian Popular Culture, please
> visit:
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1474-6689&linktype=1
>
> Ronie Parciack, Ph.D.
> Dept. of East-Asian Studies
> Tel Aviv University
>
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