[Reader-list] CFP 'Medialised Realities in South Asia'

[Britta Ohm]

Dear all,
please consider our CFP for the upcoming

20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies to be held in 
Manchester on 8-11 July 2008.


Proposals - to be sent to one of the e-mail addresses at the bottom - 
are welcome until 31 December 2007.

Name 1: Dr. Britta Ohm
Name 2: Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
Affiliation 1: Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Affiliation 2: Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Asian and 
African Studies, Germany
Panel Title: Medialised Realities in South Asia
Abstract: Media have in debates on globalisation often been looked at 
in terms of enabling new forms and expressions of cultural identities 
that supersede and even replace political, cultural and legal 
organisations of belonging and citizenship. More recently, however, it 
is becoming increasingly obvious that globalising media play a vital 
role in reframing notions and manifestations of nation, state, 
community and history. Moreover, it has itself global implications that 
media cannot be looked at any more in terms of an 'additional' factor 
that 'represents' an outer 'reality', but that they have also in South 
Asia since the early 1980s started to become integral agents in 
generating "medialised realities". They are today key-carriers of 
performative politics as much as of its critique, of enabling new forms 
of expression and witnessing as well as of their restrictions, and of 
opening new possibilities of representation as much as of their limits. 
Simultaneously, processes of digitalisation, transnationalisation, 
commercialisation and their legal ramifications as well as the growing 
convergence between different media (print, radio, cinema, television, 
internet and other new media) are rapidly changing South Asian 
societies.

Against this background, we invite papers that draw upon these 
developments, taking into account the staging of media events, dynamics 
of inclusion and exclusion, the interaction between media and law, the 
de- and reterritorialisation of national and cultural belonging, the 
contestation of history and the role media play in elections, in the 
generation of 'truths' and 'facts', in the creation and perception of 
crises as well as in the resolution or deepening of conflict.

Email 1: ohm at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Email 2: schneidernc at web.de



Please circulate widely! Hope to see you there!

Best -- Britta

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Britta Ohm
Solmsstr. 36
10961 Berlin
Germany
+49/30/69507155