[csaa-forum] cfp: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing

[Baden Offord]

International Academic Forum
Fourth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies
29 May to 1 June 2014
Osaka, Japan

Call for Papers

Conference Theme: Borderlands of Becoming, Belonging and Sharing
Website: http://accs.iafor.org/

Local, national and global cultures have been transformed by an intensification of human migration, mobility and multi-culture with multiple and complex claims of home, identity and belonging. Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of the borderland has become a critical conceptual rubric used by cultural researchers as a way of understanding, explaining and articulating the in-determined, vague, ambiguous nature of everyday life and the cultural politics of border-knowledge, border crossings, transgression, living in-between and multiple belongings. Borderlands is also about a social space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities meet and share a space in which the politics of co-presence and co-existence are experienced and enacted in mundane ways. This conference, which focuses on the borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing, is therefore about examining how the culture of everyday life is regulated and contested across diverse political, economic and social contexts, and whether and how it creates spaces of belonging with others. 


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Baden Offord, Ph.D.
Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Southern Cross University

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