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Call for Book Chapters: Re-imagi(ni)ng Africa: Football, Identity and the Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Editors:
Tendai Chari (University of Venda, South Africa)
Dr. Nhamo Mhiripiri (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)
Introduction/Background
FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa was billed the biggest event to be staged on African soil in the 21st century. While Africa has always been imagined as “a football loving continent” FIFA 2010 WC activated discourses of football that are beyond the realm of the normative social utility of football. The more optimistic view projected the mega event as an extraordinary opportunity to expunge negative stereotypes that had held back Africa from joining the global “community of nations”. Narratives that accentuate the cultural significance of football were juxtaposed with declarations about the socio-economic spin-offs from FIFA 2010 WC. Thus football became a terrain upon which Africa could be invented, constructed, reconstructed and deconstructed again. Two years after the whistle signaling the end of the final match on July 11 2010 images that depict the global hegemonic constructs of Africa as a “dark Continent” tormented by hunger, disease, war, pestilence, dictatorships and natural disasters endure. Western media representations of political developments and events in some parts of Africa in the recent past is testament of the fact that Africa is far from overcoming negative stereotypes associated with it. Xenophobia, racism and Afro-pessimism remain entrenched thus, undermining the rhetoric about the efficacy of FIFA 2010 WC in boosting continental solidarity and cohesion. It is imperative for scholars to examine the multiple narratives attendant to the FIFA 2010 World Cup or football events in general in order to broaden our understanding of the multiple uses of football in society. We therefore, invite contributions that utilize different theoretical and methodological approaches to examine representations of football events in the media, popular culture and everyday communication, either in the context of the FIFA 2010 World Cup or other football events in Africa. Papers can focus on, but are not limited to the following topics:
• Mediation of African Football events in Africa
• Representations of FIFA 2010 World Cup in the Western Media
• FIFA 2010 World Cup in the African Media
• The interface between football and popular culture in Africa
• Football, Music and Dance
• Football and commercial advertising
• Football, Patriotism and Myth-Making in the African context
• Football, Politics and Society in Africa
• Football, Nationalism and Identity
• Football as a leisure activity
• Commercial imperatives of football
• Football and gender in Africa
• Corporatization of Football
• Football, religion and religiosity
• Football as a developmental tool
• Football, fandom and fanaticism
• Representations of national soccer teams
We are looking for contributions that tackle these issues from divergent theoretical and methodological perspectives. The abstract must clearly state the objectives of the study, the theoretical framework and the methodological approaches to be employed.
Abstracts and biographies
Abstracts should be no more than 400 words
Biographies should not be more than 200 words
Length of Articles
Articles should not be more than 8000 words including references
Reference Style: Harvard
Important Dates
Deadline for Accepting Abstracts: 30th June 2012
Notification for Accepted Abstracts: 30th September 2012
Deadline for Full Papers: 31st March 2013
Deadline for Submitting Reviewed Articles: 31st July 2013
Expected Date of Publication: 31st December 2013.
Abstracts and correspondence should be sent to Nhamo Mhiripiri mhiripirina@msu.ac.zw, or nhamoanthony@yahoo.com and Tendai Chari tendai.chari@univen.ac.za or tendai.chari@yahoo.com
Discursive Crossings: Subversion and Affirmation of Power Relations Workshop October 19-20, 2012 Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Power relations are never stable but are subject to ongoing negotiation, constantly being confirmed or put into question. In discursive processes of affirmation and subversion, cultural references and symbolic meanings intersect, socialidentities merge or interfere with each other and new knowledge is constructed. In this continual process, multiple and blurry borders are drawn between various linguistic, ethnic, cultural and social affiliations, often organized in problematic oppositional structures such as inside and outside, top and bottom, foreign and familiar. Examining such ongoing negotiations, we take up the term "discursive crossings" in order to designate the citing of linguistic, social, and cultural markers by members of one group that are commonly attributed to another group, arguing that these groups are also constitutedthrough such "discursive crossings," i.e., citing the other's markers is not necessarily subversive per se but might in fact be affirmative with
regard to the power relations between the various groups.
Taking up the term "crossing" from socio-linguistics, where it means speakers using languages or linguistic varieties they do not "own" (Ben Rampton), we propose to understand "discursive crossings" in three ways: as an intersection of various discourses, as a transgression of boundaries within discourses, and as the idea of exceeding the discursive itself. While similar issues have beenaddressed, for instance, in postcolonial and gender studies (Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler), we emphasize the constitutive character of "discursive crossings" which?in our view?not only destabilize but also produce the borders and entities that are presumably "crossed."
The aim of the conference is to look at "discursive crossings" as a problem for the interdisciplinary investigation of the discursive dynamics through which cultural and social order is negotiated. We are looking for approaches to "crossing" that deal with heterogeneous discourses, cultures, and identity politics. Possible contributions would approach the issue of "crossing" from a decisively interdisciplinary perspective, dealing with various aspects of "crossing" in its communicative, social, cultural, and historical dimensions. Papers may either present conceptualizations of "crossing" or case studies that can fruitfully be described as "crossings;" ideally, the papers would combine theoretical reflection and case studies.
Papers may address topics such as the following:
- Crossing as an override of identities
- Crossing of self and other in media
- Crossing between the local and the global
- Crossing and translation
- Crossing and migration
- Crossing, (post)colonialism, and imperialism
- Crossing in relation to polyphony and intertextuality
- Crossing in relation to hybridity and transculturation
- Crossing as a methodological tool
Please send abstracts for 20-minute papers by 15 May 2012 to crossing@uni-mainz.de.
Abstracts will be made available on our webpage in order to facilitate discussion andexchange. About one third of the slots will be filled through an open call.Travel expenditures can be reimbursed.
If you have any questions, please contact the organizers via crossing@uni-mainz.de
Network: Social and Cultural Studies Mainz (SOCUM), group 4 "Diskurs Macht Wissen"/"Discourse Power Knowledge":
Organizing Committee: Johannes Angermüller (Sociology), Michael Bachmann (Theatre Studies), Filippo Carlá (Ancient History), Antje Dresen (Sociology of Sports), Silke Jansen (Romance Linguistics), Asta Vonderau (Cultural Anthropology).
email: crossing@uni-mainz.de
“Journalists’ professional autonomy and journalism ethics” seminar
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
INVITATION TO EUROPEAN MEDIADEM RESEARCH PROJECT’S PUBLIC SEMINAR 14 JUNE 2012
“Journalists’ professional autonomy and journalism ethics” event is a one-day seminar for journalism and communication professionals and scholars at the University of Jyväskylä.
Venue: University of Jyväskylä, Mattilanniemi, Agora-building, Alfa hall
Read more from the seminar website:http://mediadem.wordpress.com/
MEDIADEM project's homepage:http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/
Due to included coffee and lunch, spaces to the seminar are limited and will be filled in order of registration. The event is free of charge.
Please register via e-mail toniina.niskala@jyu.fi at the latest on May 15, 2012!
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SEMINAR PROGRAMME
8.45 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and Introduction, Heikki Kuutti, leader of the Finnish MEDIADEM team, University of Jyväskylä
9.35 Greetings from the University of Jyväskylä, Pertti Hurme, Director of the Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä
9.40 MEDIADEM : European Media Policies Revisited: Valuing and Reclaiming Free and Independent Media in Contemporary Democratic Systems, Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, project coordinator of MEDIADEM, Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy
Journalists´ Professional Autonomy
10.00 Fighting Corruption, Preserving Press Freedom, Serving Democracy, Stephan Russ-Mohl, Professor, European Journalism Observatory
10.45 Journalists´ Professional Autonomy: Europe-wide Comparison, Halliki Harro-Loit, Professor, University of Tartu and Epp Lauk, Professor, University of Jyväskylä
11.30 Reflections on Journalists´ Professional Autonomy in Finland, Arto Nieminen, Chairman, The Union of Journalists in Finland
12.00 The Role of Media Industry in Safeguarding Journalists´ Autonomy, Valtteri Niiranen, Managing Director, Federation of the Finnish Media Industry
12.30-14.00 Lunch for enrolled participants
Journalism Ethics
14.00 Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe, Klaus Bichler, Mag., Medienhaus Wien
14.45 New challenges in journalism ethics, Nina Porra, secretary, The Council for Mass Media
15.15 Journalism ethics and legal rules, Riitta Ollila, member of the CMM, Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä
15.45 Ethical Judgments in the Newsroom, Pekka Mervola, Editor-in-chief, newspaper Keskisuomalainen
Panel and discussion
16.15 Professional Autonomy of Journalists, Ethical Journalism and Accountable Media, chairman of the panel, Professor Raimo Salokangas, University of Jyväskylä
17.15 Concluding Remarks, Heikki Kuutti
Call for articles: Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism online edition
Friday, February 18, 2011
The editors of the DNCJ are keen to expand its coverage of the local and regional press, for the online edition - http://c19index.chadwyck.com/marketing/aboutdncj.jsp - and any revised print edition.
I am looking for short entries (400-800 words, depending on entry) on:
• Advertisers (free local newspapers, e.g. Penrhyn Advertiser, Cornwall, Preston Weekly Advertiser)
• Agricultural journalism (as element, and as separate titles, e.g. Preston Guardian,; Leics Advertiser; Bedford Express; Sussex Agricultural Express; North of England Farmer (Newcastle); Mark Lane Express, Bell’s Weekly Messenger)
• Evening newspapers
• Independent, neutral (what the terms meant as applied to newspapers; growth of these descriptions)
• Joint stock companies (influence on increasing capitalisation of newspapers, anonymity of owners, use by Conservative provincial papers
• News placard (important source of news for public, often attracting crowds)
• Newspaper chains
• Provincial Roman Catholic press
• Provincial magazines
• Provincial religious press
• Shipping news
• Women’s columns (staple of provincial press, often syndicated).
• Reid, Sir Thomas Wemyss (editor of Leeds Mercury; managing director of Cassell, biographer)
• Smiles, Samuel (editor of Leeds Times)
• Baxter, W.E, of Lewes, proprietor of Sussex Agricultural Express and 23 other titles
• Birmingham Weekly Post
• Bradford Daily Telegraph (successful paper rapidly established by non-local publisher and staff)
• Bradford Observer and its editor William Byles
• Bristol Mercury
• Carlisle Journal
• Catholic Fireside
• Catholic Magazine and Reflector (1801), a Liverpool monthly ‘probably the earliest Catholic periodical published in England’.
• Daily Bristol Times and Mirror
• Eastern Morning News, Hull
• Ipswich Journal
• Lancashire Free Press/Northern Free Press/Catholic Times, published in Liverpool.
• Leicestershire Mercury
• Liverpool Weekly Post
• Manchester Weekly Times
• Midland Counties Express
• Oxford Times
• Reading Mercury (owned by Catholic family, featured much agricultural news)
• Sheffield Independent
• Western Daily Press, Bristol
• Western Morning News, Plymouth.
I am also looking for 1000-word entries on the periodical and newspaper press of these cities and regions (similar to current entry on Manchester press):
• Sheffield
• Birmingham
• South-West England
• South-East England.
If you would like to write an entry or entries, contact me at ahobbs2@uclan.ac.uk with a one-page sample of your writing (published or unpublished).