Call for Papers
Emerging Social Activism in South Asian Film, Literature and New Media: A Cultural Studies Perspective
Papers are invited for a book chronicling the expressions of feminist solidarity in contemporary South Asia that coalesces in the wake of sexual assaults on women, such as the Delhi student gang-rape in December 2012, the state-led sexual violence against women in various "troubled" parts of South Asia, cultural violence on women (domestic, caste, ethnic, sectarian), gendered violence during war, etc. Co-edited by Dr. Sonora Jha (Seattle University) and Dr. Alka Kurian (University of Washington Bothell), the book will take a cultural studies perspective to unravel these complex interlinked strands of inquiry where an understanding of social movements and their representations against gendered violence will be studied through the lens of colonialism, nationalism, citizenship, globalization, transnationalism, neo-liberalism, patriarchy, feminism, the human rights discourse, etc. How is violence against women embedded in South Asia's colonial, neo-colonial, and patriarchal legacy? How is globalization lived in the day-to-day modernity of the region's dual economy? How does neo-liberal economy structure multiple patriarchies across class and regional divide? How does one understand the human rights and feminist discourse within a transnational context? How does the medium of social media – unfettered, immediate, current, and authentic – help mobilize against forces of capitalist, militaristic, and patriarchal misogyny? What is the power of representational discourse (film, literature) in promoting dissent against systemic oppression?
Routledge, USA has already shown interest in publishing the book, which will draw from academics, writers and activists studying recent feminist practice in films, literature, and theatre emerging from South Asia, as well as the unprecedented cross-border solidarity and social movements that have emerged on social media, facilitating the production of independent media that pushes feminist dialogue into the common public sphere. The editors invite academic papers from scholars and activists on the emergence of new forms and articulations of dissent, experience, identity and contemporary readings of patriarchy in South Asia and within its diaspora.
Topics solicited include but are not limited to the following:
- Anti-rape movements
- Dalit feminist "difference" and caste patriarchy
- Law and sexual assault against women
- Gender, class, caste, and sectarianr violence
- State and sexual terrorism
- Gendered politics of resistance
- Social change through social media
- Representation as revolution
- Feminist politics and film/literature
- Transnational solidarity
Please send abstracts (250 words) or papers, if ready (6000-8000 words) addressed to the co-editors - Dr. Sonora Jha (sonora@seattleu.edu) and Dr. Alka Kurian (AKurian@uwb.edu) by January 15, 2015. Final submission of accepted papers will be due on June 1, 2015.,___
Thanks & Regards:
Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
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