[csaa-forum] Request for a post about a CFP for Continuum

[Tauel Harper]

Hello CSAA!

We're hoping that you can advertise this CFP for our upcoming special edition of Continuum on your CSAA message board.

Thank you for your support,

Assoc Prof Tauel Harper
Media and Communication
Murdoch University

Post:

CFP Special Issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies on Electric Vehicles

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/does-it-have-the-grunt-car-culture-electric-vehicles-and-the-transition-to-net-zero-mobility/

Does it have the grunt? Car culture, electric vehicles, and the transition to net zero mobility
As the transition to a green economy demands technological and social changes, what are the cultural obstacles and opportunities faced by electric vehicle technology? If cars are symbols of freedom, sexuality, identity and so on, how might this symbolism impede the move toward EVs? Our inherited cultural attitudes – which could be understood in terms attachment, enthusiasm, desiring-investment, and so on – clearly influence our desire to adopt new technology. Likewise, embracing new technology might disrupt cultural attitudes in new and interesting ways. In this Special Issue we are seeking to explore what sort of cultural changes are required for, and implicated in, the shift to electric vehicles.
We are particularly interested in papers that consider the shift toward electric mobility within broader debates around the role of culture, policy and tradition in mediating technological change.
We call for any papers that consider or analyse Australia’s cultural attitudes towards EVs, including topics such as:

  *   Meditations on the role of Australian ‘car culture’ in embracing EV
  *   Investigation of how existing political, social and technological structures inhibit or encourage adoption of new technologies.
  *   Visions of how EVs could alter Australian mobility narratives.
  *   The symbolism of consumption practices such as EV ownership.
  *   Cultural attitudes toward batteries as toxic/unreliable/dangerous.
  *   Examination of cultural ‘sticking points’ that make technological change difficult to embrace.
  *   Risks around green marketing, greenwashing or messianic narratives in promoting technological change.
  *   Tracing of the historical evolution of cultural attitudes toward mobility and transportation technologies.
  *   Challenges and opportunities around private car ownership and the concurrent role of bicycles, scooters, new infrastructure, public transport and rideshare solutions.
  *   Broader consideration of how to address cultural and technological inertia when promoting change.

Submission Instructions
All articles and abstracts should be formatted according to the Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide<https://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/style/reference/tf_ChicagoAD.pdf> and the instructions provided on the Contiuum website: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=ccon20
No payment from authors is required.
To be considered for this special issue, please submit an abstract of 200 words along with author biographies of 100 words to tauel.harper at murdoch.edu.au<mailto:tauel.harper at murdoch.edu.au> by 16 August 2024.

Notification to authors will be made by 20 September 2024.
Successful authors must submit full articles (6000 words including abstract, references and endnotes) for rigorous peer review by 17 January 2025. Accepted articles will be published  as soon as possible in ‘online first’ editions, while the special issue will be released in July 2025.

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