[csaa-forum] Extended deadline cfp 'Disaster!' A Symposium

Chris Prentice chris.prentice at otago.ac.nz
Fri Jul 26 10:54:50 CST 2013


Dear colleagues,

Apologies if you have seen this call for papers before, but there are still a few places left for the Otago Postcolonial Studies Research Network symposium entitled 'Disaster!' We have therefore extended the deadline for submission of abstracts. We have run very successful events annually since 2005, and paper proposals received so far have suggested a very rich occasion for 2013.

Best wishes,
Chris

Disaster! A Symposium
27—29 November 2013
Hosted by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Keynote speakers:
Professor Rob Nixon (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
Professor Anne McClintock (U. Wisconsin-Madison)
Associate Professor Steve Matthewman (U. Auckland)

Call for Papers: Extended Date for submission of abstracts

Catastrophic storms, earthquakes, floods, and fires, along with such forms of
‘slow violence’ as pollution, deforestation, global warming and rising sea
levels, are increasingly drawing attention to the vulnerability of local
populations and landscapes to ‘natural disasters.’ Postcolonial environmental
studies, ecocriticism, and disaster studies often trace such events to the
ecological, social and economic effects of First World-driven development
ideologies and projects. Storms, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes,
tsunamis, fires have seemingly been increasing in frequency and intensity
around the world in recent years, revealing the Global North as not only
implicated in the South’s disasters, but also as not immune themselves to
disasters that bring destruction, loss of life, and hardship. What do
postcolonial perspectives contribute to analysis of such events or conditions,
and/or what do these events or conditions say to the current and future
priorities of postcolonial studies?

The Postcolonial Studies Research Network invites papers, from any
disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective, that consider ‘disaster’ in terms of
either specific events, or the slower forms of environmental devastation —
and their social and cultural consequences — affecting countries and
communities around the world. We especially welcome papers that consider
Australasia and the larger Asia-Pacific region. Papers may address any of a
wide range of issues and questions that bear on the topic of ‘Disaster!’
including:

• the relations between ‘natural’ events and human agency
• the spatial and/or geopolitical and economic terms through which
disasters are produced, recognised and responded to
• the uneven distribution of vulnerability
• the politics and effects of special measures and authorities, states of
emergency and exception
• the mediatisation of disaster and/or the media prioritisation of the
spectacle over the long-term or systemic disaster
• the production or exacerbation of social disadvantage or exclusion in
disaster or disaster response
• discourses of resilience, recovery and rebuilding
• the mainstreaming of ‘sustainability’ discourses
• discourses of victimhood, of community
• social networks and social media/networking
• cultural or creative visions of, or responses to disaster

To preserve the integrity of the event, and foster a productive exchange
between participants, the symposium is planned as a single-stream event with
no parallel sessions. For this reason, the maximum number of papers we can
accept is 30.

Selected papers will be published in a quality-assured international journal.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
New Deadline: 16 August, 2013
Paper and panel proposals should be emailed to Dr Chris Prentice:
chris.prentice at otago.ac.nz<mailto:chris.prentice at otago.ac.nz>

Please give the email the subject ‘PSRN Symposium abstract – your
surname’ and include your name, paper title, an abstract (250 words max)
and up to 5 key words. Please also add a short biographical note. Panels
should submit an abstract and biographical note for each paper/presenter.


Dr Chris Prentice
chris.prentice at otago.ac.nz<mailto:chris.prentice at otago.ac.nz>
Dept English and Linguistics
Te Tari Akoranga Ingarihi me te Mātauranga Wetereo
University of Otago/Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin 9054

Ph. (0064) 3 479 8920








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