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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Call For
Papers: Satirical Discourse in Troubled Times</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The Fourteenth
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">May 16-19,
2018<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA)<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Session
Organizer:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Kevin Howley<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Professor of
Media Studies<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Department of
Communication<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">DePauw University<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:khowley@depauw.edu" target="_blank">khowley@depauw.edu</a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On July 4,
1852, the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass, thought to
be alive and well by the current occupant of the White House, famously
proclaimed: “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is
needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, today,
pour forth a stream, a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach,
withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.” Douglass’s recognition of the value and
importance of pointed satire in troubled times is deeply relevant to the
current historical moment. From climate change and the rise of authoritarianism
to austerity politics and the criminalization of dissent, these are most
assuredly troubled times. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Drawing on
classic and contemporary scholarship that examines the discursive power of
political dissent in the satiric register, this session seeks to address the
following questions: What role does satire play in such vexed and perilous
times as these? Do we laugh to keep from crying? More critically, are we, as
cultural critic Neil Postman famously put it, merely “amusing ourselves to
death”? Or is satire a potent, if somewhat underappreciated, resource for
resistance, resilience, and renewal in the wake of the ascent of
anti-democratic forces; the deepening of social, political and economic
inequalities; and the wholesale destruction of our fragile ecosystem? In
correspondence with this year’s conference theme, Qualitative Inquiry in
Troubled Times, this session examines the form, function, and political
efficacy of satirical discourse in contemporary culture.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Theoretical
and empirical papers employing qualitative methodologies may include, but are
not limited to, the following lines of inquiry:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Satire as
creative resistance<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Political
mobilization within and through satire<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Satirical
discourse and digital culture<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Satirizing
neoliberalism<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Political
satire in national, international, and transnational contexts<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Limits and
possibilities of racial satire<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Assessing
the efficacy of political satire<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Form and
content in satirical discourse<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Satirical
interventions in public policy<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">* Historical
perspectives on political satire<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Send 300-word
abstracts, a short biographical statement, and contact information to the
session organizer no later than <b>October 1, 2017</b> <<u><span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:khowley@depauw.edu" target="_blank">khowley@depauw.edu</a></span></span></u>>.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">###<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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