[Discussion] CFP: Protest Cultures (journal issue)

[Gonul Pultar]

BAD SUBJECTS

SPECIAL ISSUE:  PROTEST CULTURES

CALL FOR PAPERS


In the wake of the demonstrations against the Iraq War that met George 
Bush, Jr. in London, and the anti-FTAA demonstrations in Miami, Bad 
Subjects [http://eserver.org/bs] is publishing a year-end special issue 
on Protest Cultures.  This issue will be dedicated to examining the role 
of public protest in confronting the dominant orders of the American 
Empire and capitalism; economic, cultural, and media globalism; and the 
modalities of state violence, visible and less visible.  What current 
strategies of confrontation and protest are most effective in creating a 
shared resistance to the normalization of imperial culture?  How do 
mobilizations occur and to what effect?  How does staging protests 
contribute to the creation of peaceful civil societies and social 
justice?   What forms of political organization and collective action 
emerge from protests to energize democratic practice and confront 
anti-democratic authority?

This special issue emphasizes the co-location of many political 
movements and cultures within a broad, transnational oppositional camp. 
Essays might address protest planning, staging geographies, personal 
experience, spontaneous protests, anti-capitalist and labor protests, 
independent and corporate reportage, internal organization, ideological 
conflicts among protestors, artwork and creative protest, or policing 
and control, and should articulate some argument concerning protest 
praxis and politics.  Relevant essays on historical protests are also 
invited.

Send essays of 2000-3500 words to Cynthia Hoffman [choff@lmi.net] and 
Joe Lockard [Joe.Lockard@asu.edu].  Essay submissions can be reviewed 
and published in English, Spanish, German, and French, with or without 
translation.  Protest graphics and photography may be submitted without 
essays.  For all submissions, include a brief author bio and e-mail 
address; see Bad Subjects issues for style.

The submission deadline is December 24, 2003; the special issue will be 
published on January 1, 2004.

Bad Subjects is also calling for papers on upcoming issues. For more 
information, see <http://eserver.org/bs>