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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">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!
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Mehita<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE “COMMUNICATION AND CONSUMER CULTURE: COUNTERPOINTS BETWEEN BRAZIL AND (SOUTHERN) AFRICA – JOURNAL COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND CONSUMPTION, ESPM-SP</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The scholarly journal
<i>Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo</i> (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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Articles for all of the journal’s sections (free articles, book reviews and interviews) are welcomed for this special issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">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
<a href="http://revistacmc.espm.br/index.php/revistacmc/index"><span style="color:black">http://revistacmc.espm.br/index.php/revistacmc/index</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Submission deadline:
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">31 August, 2015.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Special Issue publication date: 30 December 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Other information may be obtained contacting the invited editors by email:<br>
Mehita Iqani – mehita.iqani@wits.ac.za<br>
Marcia P. Tondato – mtondato@espm.br<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Dr. Mehita Iqani
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Senior Lecturer in Media Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">School of Literature, Languages and Media (SLLM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">University of the Witwatersrand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Tel: +27 (0)11 717 4123<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Email:
<a href="mailto:mehita.iqani@wits.ac.za"><span style="color:black">mehita.iqani@wits.ac.za</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><a href="http://www.mediastudies.co.za"><span style="color:black">www.mediastudies.co.za</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">My book: “<a href="http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=513112"><span style="color:black">Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public
Eye</span></a>” (2012, Palgrave Macmillan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Critical Research in Consumer Culture Network:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><a href="http://consumerculturenetwork.wordpress.com/"><span style="color:black">http://consumerculturenetwork.wordpress.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">The Newsstand Project:
<a href="http://www.thenewsstandproject.org/"><span style="color:black">http://www.thenewsstandproject.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">ITCH Magazine:
<u><a href="www.itch.co.za"><span style="color:black">www.itch.co.za</span></a></u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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