Call for papers (panel proposal for BISA 2016 conference): Popular Culture and International Politics: South-Eastern Europe and the Globe
This panel organised by the British International Studies Association’s South East Europe Working Group for the 2016 BISA Conference in Edinburgh (15-17 June 2016) asks how popular culture research about/from south-east Europe can contribute to a wider research agenda in International Studies. How far can popular culture be said to have shaped, as well as reflected, the politics of south-east Europe, and what insights might current research questions in south-east European cultural studies be able to offer the research agendas around Popular Culture and World Politics, Visual International Relations and related areas?
Contributions to the panel might focus on any of the following areas, or other relevant topics:
- Construction and contestation of national identities and other layers of collective/geopolitical identity
- The politics of war memory and collective victimhood
- ‘Banal nationalism’ and ‘banal militarism’
- Post-conflict/post-socialist political economies of cultural production
- International politics of sexuality/gender and popular culture
- Popular culture and the ‘affective atmospheres’ of politics
- Celebrity activism and humanitarianism
- Post-9/11 narratives of international security
- Transnational processes of racialisation
- Popular culture, digital media and diaspora as political actors
- Virality and visuality on social media
- The global movement of people, capital, technologies and texts
- Popular culture and the emotions in IR
- Producing popular-cultural artefacts as an innovative methodology in IR
Please send paper proposals (including a title, a 250-word abstract, a 100-word biography and a contact email to Catherine Baker (cbakertw1@googlemail.com), with ‘BISA SEE WG popular culture panel’ in the subject line, by Fri 20 November.
Catherine Baker 