[csaa-forum] Call for Papers | 'Culture Unbound'Thematic Section: 'This Season of Discontent: Understanding Student Movements in Neoliberal Times'

[Harmony S]

Dear CSAA members,

 This is to bring to your attention the following CFP. Should some of you
be interested in contributing to this Thematic Section, please get in touch
to discuss your ideas.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best always,

Harmony Siganporia and Nosipho Mngomezulu



Name of Publication: *Culture Unbound – Journal of Current Cultural
Research* (http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/)


Special Thematic Section, 2017: Call For Papers



Editors: Dr.Harmony Siganporia (Assistant Professor, MICA- India) & Dr.
Nosipho Mngomezulu (Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)



 *This Season of Discontent: Understanding Student Movements in Neoliberal
Times *

"There's a riot going on": this is the title of Peter Doggett's exploration
of the heady counter-culture movement which swept across large swathes of
the world in and around the 1960s. Decades later, this phrase has acquired
a new resonance; an almost prophetic quality, when it is used to describe
what we have been witnessing across University campuses in South Africa,
India, and a number of other countries since 2015. Increasing clamp downs
on institutions of higher learning (ranging from state-run to private as
well as rights-based organisations), and the unease manifest in the ways in
which students have responded to what is now commonly identified as the
commercialisation of higher education - the University embracing its role
as arbiter and perpetuator of the neoliberal creed - are inter-related
phenomena, and need to be understood in terms of what they mean for youth
and student politics, as well as what these movements have done to disrupt
the systematic inequities and violence/s configured into the workings of
the institutions which house them.


This Thematic Issue aims to bring together contributions from countries
currently in the throes of student movements world over; from Brazil to
South Africa and India, in a bid to set these movements in conversation.
Ever aware that these divisions between 'local' and 'global' are
increasingly blurred, this issue aims to center narratives from the Global
South in order to think through the myriad transnational movements
articulating themselves in acutely different ways, in increasingly
neoliberal modes, in various post-colonial contexts, together. It also
seeks to complement our understanding of the nexus between the
commoditisation of higher education and projects of nationalism.


In sum, this Section is an attempt to engage with the larger question of
how we may, as scholars, educators and ethnographers, engage with and
elucidate these student movements.





Some of the questions submissions could engage with could be:

- How do we explore the connections between projects such as nationalism,
nation-building, and the sphere of higher education? We are also interested
in understanding the legitimising narratives of anti-student movements, and
how student movements come to be delegitimised or read as
'anti-national'/agents of 'third forces' or external agents.

- What is the conceived purpose of state-subsidised higher education in
post-colonial states? How are localisation, transformation and
decolonisation read in transnational neoliberal contexts?

- How do we make sense of and account for the many forms violence takes in
these movements? We are particularly interested in the various
ways/situations/contexts in which violence takes place, especially those
forms of violence which are often negated or ignored in the wake of protest
action. Which forms of violence are deemed more 'acceptable' than others?

 - We take for granted that no movement is homogeneous in its composition
and no movement can speak for every member’s experience at all times. So
how can movements build into themselves the mechanisms for internal audits
and reflexivity that would make them truly intersectional and inclusive?

Please submit an article of between 4,000-10,000 words, with an abstract of
300 words as well as 5-8 keywords. Additionally, include a short author’s
bio of 50 words, including affiliation, research interests and e-mail
address. Send it to: harmony at micamail.in and nosipho.mngomezulu at wits.ac.za
.

The deadline for submissions is April 10th, 2017.



If you have any questions, please contact us.
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