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[mailto:Research-SexWorkMigr@googlegroups.com] En nombre de Malika Amaouche
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Asunto: [ResearchSexWorkMig] Feminist Grassroots Media in Europe:
Ananthology
Please forward to any interested individuals, groups, lists, web-sites and
blogs- academic and activist.
Call for Submissions for a Proposed Edited Volume
Feminist Grassroots Media in Europe: An anthology Edited by Red Chidgey
(UK), Jenny Gunnarsson-Payne (Sweden) and Elke Zobl (Austria)
Women have always played an important role in movements for social justice.
Using media to transport their messages, to disrupt social orders and spin
novel social processes, feminists have long recognised the importance of
self-managed media to forge resistant identities and build coalitions. In
fact, as Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi has found, "almost by dint of their
existence alone, autonomous media controlled by women with women-defined
output offer a challenge to existing hierarchies of power; when these media
take up specific issues and campaigns, and align themselves with larger
social movements, their political potential is significant" (1996:234).
Autonomous media cultures are currently gaining in critical attention. Over
recent decades, scholars have developed conceptual frameworks such as
'radical media', 'alternative media', 'activist media', and 'citizens'
media' to help explain the unique characteristics and working models of
grassroots media production – and to ask whether self-managed media can
foster critical consciousness, aid in participatory democracy, and effect
social change (Atton, 2002; Bailey, Cammaerts, and Carpentier, 2007; Byerly
and Ross, 2006; Downing 1984, 2000; Rodriguez, 2001; Waltz, 2005).
Within this burgeoning field, however, few in-depth studies of grassroots
media from a specifically cross-generational and European feminist
perspective have been published.
The Feminist Grassroots Media in Europe anthology proposes to address this
lack in research, bringing together activists and academics to re-evaluate
existing theoretical frameworks and to portray activist projects in light of
feminist media production. As such, the book will be of interest to a broad
audience, such as activists and researchers within the fields of gender and
media studies, and will serve as an undergraduate textbook for research on
feminist 'radical media' praxis whilst delivering a much-needed archive of
DIY media projects, networks and producers from the 1980s to the present
day.[1]
The Book Project
The term 'Media' is employed broadly here to include traditional
broadcasting channels (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, films,
photography) and non-traditional genres (zines, blogs, vlogs, websites,
wikis, posters, burn stations, podcasts, textiles).
'Grassroots' refers to self-managed media, produced outside of a commercial
agenda, by a collective and/or individuals working from a community or
social movement perspective.
The editors seek a variety of submissions from throughout Europe. The
anthology aims to represent feminists from a diversity of age cohorts,
backgrounds, races, classes, genders, geo-social regions and political
priorities. The book seeks to ask what possibilities, limitations and
vulnerabilities – with attention to class, race, ethnicity, age, disability,
sexuality and gender dynamics – feminist grassroots media projects currently
engender, and to map the histories, successes and challenges of women-led
grassroots media in the late twentieth century and beyond. The editors are
also keen to explore the links and discontinuities between 'second' and
'third wave' feminist media production.
The call includes, but is not limited to, work which addresses the
following topics:
European Feminist Grassroots Media and:
Aesthetics
Activism
Alternative Economies and Media Logics
Organisational Models, Structures and Processes Comparative Analyses and
Histories Volatile Relationships to the Mainstream (culture, media, funding
and the state) Community Building and Mobilisation Dissemination Networks
and Archives Alternative Public/Private Spheres Empowered Feminist
Subjects and Citizens Consciousness-Raising Strategies and Social Movement
Media
Contributions can include:
Academic essays (5,000- 7,000 words)
Reports/overviews from countries (2,000 – 5,000 words) Comparisons of
'second wave' and 'third wave' media projects Technology-based case-studies
Interviews with grassroots media producers or distributors Examples from
grassroots media (e.g. excerpts from grrrl zines) Visual commentaries
Images
From these submissions, a free directory of grassroots media projects will
be made accessible via the website Grassroots Feminism: A resource site for
the feminist movement today
www.grassrootsfeminism.net (currently in
planning)
Submission of Abstracts
Submissions (in English) are welcomed from feminist activists, community
media producers, and scholars from a variety of disciplines.
Potential contributors should submit:
A) A 500 word abstract outlining the scope and themes of your
proposed contribution, as well as possible inclusion of images.
B) A brief author biography, indicating any particular
institutional or group affiliation, and recent publications or projects
C) Full contact details, including date of birth and nationality.
Deadline for Abstracts:
Abstracts should be submitted to book@grassrootsfeminism.net by Monday 17th
March 2008.
Biographical notes on editors
Red Chidgey (*1979) is a member of the Feminist Activist Forum in the UK,
and publishes widely on feminist zines, riot grrrl and Ladyfest cultures.
She received her MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, where
she re-trained as a Life History historian. She is currently involved in
third wave media and feminist history projects.
Jenny Gunnarsson-Payne (*1976) completed her doctorate in Ethnology at the
Department of Culture and Media, Umeå University, Sweden, and currently
teaches Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her publications on
'alternative media' focus primarily on representations of gender and
sexuality, and collective mobilisation, in Swedish feminist zines.
Elke Zobl (*1975) created the online resource site Grrrl Zine Network (
www.grrrlzines.net) in 2001 and has been part of the Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go
collective conducting zine workshops with girls and young women (
www.gzagg.org ). After pursuing postdoctoral studies at the University of
California at San Diego, she is now continuing her research on "Young women
as creators of new cultural spaces" at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
Austria.
[1] The book proposal will be submitted to Routledge.
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