[csaa-forum] CFP: Special Issue on the Aesthetics of Creative Activism

[Elspeth Tilley]

Call for Papers: Aesthetics of Creative Activism

Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, Special Issue

Guest Editors: Elspeth Tilley and Nicholas Holm

Publication date will be Spring, 2023.
Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2022

Submissions on any philosophically-informed exploration of artistic forms as activist interventions., including, but not limited to:

  *   Ethics and morality in and of artistic activism
  *   Relationships between aesthetic value and artistic activism
  *   Affect and effect in and of creative activism
  *   Race, creativity and social justice: from jazz music to BLM and beyond
  *   Advancing an aesthetic theory of creative activism
  *   Didacticism and its discontents
  *   Pandemic shock, climate grief, and compassion fatigue: artistic responses to overwhelming topics
  *   Catharsis and creative activism: compatible or opposing forces?
  *   Creative activists as futurists: the role of artistic imagination in accelerating social change and generating future solutions
  *   Creative activism evaluation: how does scholarship from aesthetics and art criticism help us determine outcomes and effectiveness?
  *   First-order change versus second-order change: can art achieve systemic alteration or only awareness and individual empowerment?
  *   Critically analyzing the forms, claims and creative processes of artistic activism: avoiding art-washing, and challenging assumptions about what works, what has value, and why
  *   Decolonization, anti-capitalism, and the role of creative activism in resistance or transformation

Submissions should not exceed 7,500 words and must comply with the general guidelines for submissions (see "Author Guidelines<https://academic.oup.com/jaac/pages/general-instructions>" on the JAAC website). Upload submissions to the JAAC online submission website<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaac>, making sure they are identified as submissions for the special issue.

If you have questions please contact:

Nicholas Holm<mailto:N.H.F.Holm at massey.ac.nz> or Elspeth Tilley<mailto:E.Tilley at massey.ac.nz>

We welcome your inquiries and we also encourage you to check out the JAAC philosophically-informed research approach to the topic to see if your work would be likely to fit with the journal's aims and scope.

Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2022

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