<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1304px"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:5da" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:5db" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We would like to invite all the scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and neighbouring islands to contribute research essays/working notes for consideration to be published in the Special Issue of the <i>South Asian Popular Culture</i> Journal on Pan South Asian Subjectivities. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Please find below the details of the Call For Papers. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Pan South Asian Subjectivities</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">  – Call for Papers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Special Issue of the <i>South Asian Popular Culture </i>Journal</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">The proposed Special Issue examines contemporary popular culture expressions in the pan-South Asian diaspora in Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands focusing on the articulation of pan South Asian subjectivities. The issue is interested in exploring the tracks and traces of migratory patterns that have emerged or are emerging; interrogating the multiple gendered, raced, hybridized, and marginalized popular cultural practices within the pan South Asian community space, examining the impact of these cultural practices on broader social, political, and economic issues both globally and in relation to issues specific to South Asia; and theorizing how to conceptually articulate the popular cultures expressed by communities</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">inhabiting a pan South Asian space.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">The papers solicited for this proposal will be diverse in terms of its contexts, popular performances (art, music, dance, other performances, print, theatre, radio, film/cinema/TV, digital, etc.), topics (race, gender, politics, sexuality, and generational differences for example), and theoretical approaches. We anticipate that the diverse popular culture expressions that the Issue explores will be framed by theoretical positions that sets out a speculative framework for articulating pan South Asian subjectivities.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Accordingly, we welcome papers on a wide range of popular culture practices and expressions in </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">the pan-South Asian diaspora in Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands. We are soliciting research-based essays as well as Working Notes from postgraduate scholars. Working Notes is a space for Postgraduate student to detail projects that they are working on.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Research Essays should be between </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6000-7000 words and Working Notes should be between 800-1000 words.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please send a 300 word abstract with 5 keywords for consideration by 31 January 2020 to the special issue editors:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Vijay Devadas, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:vijay.devadas@aut.ac.nz" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(5,99,193)">vijay.devadas@aut.ac.nz</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Jayakrishnan Sreekumar, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jayakrishnan.sreekumar@aut.ac.nz" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">jayakrishnan.sreekumar@aut.ac.nz</span></a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Following notification of acceptance of abstract, full papers and Working Notes will be due by 30 April 2020 (with final revised papers, if accepted, due by 31 May 2020).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:n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