[Sugarman] CfP: COMMUNICATION AND CONSUMER CULTURE: COUNTERPOINTS BETWEEN BRAZIL AND (SOUTHERN) AFRICA

[Mehita Iqani]

Dear Colleagues -



I've sent this CfP out previously, but my co-editor and I have decided to adjust the title of the special issue so that the thematic is a clearer. We will welcome contributions from any disciplinary perspective, dealing with comparative aspects of consumption and communication between Brazil and (Southern) Africa. Please share widely!



Mehita



CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE "COMMUNICATION AND CONSUMER CULTURE: COUNTERPOINTS BETWEEN BRAZIL AND (SOUTHERN) AFRICA - JOURNAL COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND CONSUMPTION, ESPM-SP



The scholarly journal Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo (Communication, Media and Consumption), evaluated as level B1 on Qualis-Capes system (range A1-B5) in the Brazilian academy, makes public the Call for Papers for a Special Issue to be published in December 2015, having as invited editors Dr. Mehita Iqani, from Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg-South Africa), and Profa. Dra. Marcia Perencin Tondato, from ESPM-SP Communication and Consumption Practices Post-Graduate Program (São Paulo-Brazil).



This special issue will bring together articles on the theme Communication and Consumer Culture: Counterpoints between Brazil and (Southern) Africa, with particular space devoted to showcasing writing reporting on empirical research and theoretical discussions. We also encourage articles presenting comparative studies between Brazil and African countries in relation to the thematic.



The aim of the special issue is to develop empirical and theoretical conversations about communication and consumer cultures in contexts and spaces in, through and between the South Atlantic, with an emphasis on the relations, historical or contemporary, cultural, political or social, between Brazil and African countries within the theme of consumption. This focus is justified by the present socio-economics and histories of these regions, the urgency of needs for the life-style improvement for large sectors of their populations in contrast to the pleasures enjoyed by their political and economic elite, and the discursive flows, especially those of the media, due to inclusion in the global consumer market. Alongside the flows of neoliberal capital and media across the South Atlantic, are counter discursive flows in the communication and consumer cultures spectrum that highlight the problems of growth-based economics: is this a sustainable model for producing social equality and mobility (as expressed through consumption and communication) in a broadly comprehensive way, as is being asserted by the debilitation of the dynamics of certain free market structures in the North hemisphere?



We invite original articles of no more than 8,000 words addressing any empirical or theoretical subject linked to the notion of Communication and Consumer Culture: Counterpoints between Brazil and (Southern) Africa.



Articles for all of the journal's sections (free articles, book reviews and interviews) are welcomed for this special issue.



The scholarly journal Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo accepts texts by established post-doctoral researchers as well as graduate students (with their supervisors as co-authors). Submissions must be done exclusively through the electronic system, which can be accessed at http://revistacmc.espm.br/index.php/revistacmc/index



Submission deadline: 31 August, 2015.

Special Issue publication date: 30 December 2015.



Other information may be obtained contacting the invited editors by email:
Mehita Iqani - mehita.iqani at wits.ac.za
Marcia P. Tondato - mtondato at espm.br



Dr. Mehita Iqani

Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
School of Literature, Languages and Media (SLLM)
University of the Witwatersrand
Room 3064, Senate House
Private Bag X3
2050 Wits

Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4123
Email: mehita.iqani at wits.ac.za<mailto:mehita.iqani at wits.ac.za>
www.mediastudies.co.za<http://www.mediastudies.co.za>

My book: "Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public Eye<http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=513112>" (2012, Palgrave Macmillan)
Critical Research in Consumer Culture Network: http://consumerculturenetwork.wordpress.com/
The Newsstand Project: http://www.thenewsstandproject.org<http://www.thenewsstandproject.org/>
ITCH Magazine: www.itch.co.za


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