Call for Publication: Special Issue on "Political Genealogy after Foucault"

Dear Colleagues,

Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue on the theme, “Political Genealogy After Foucault.” Inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, this issue invites essays from scholars employing political genealogy as a methodology and model of theoretical inquiry representing a wide range of disciplines, from the social sciences to the humanities, from philosophy to geography to urban studies to cultural theory. The goal of this special issue is to publish some of the best and most current work in political genealogy, showing how this work invites us to rethink many of the key concepts in political theory as well as real ground-level political practice. Broadly conceived, the editorial team is interested in articles which demonstrate how political genealogy helps us to understand what Foucault calls “the history of our present,” while at the same time looking to our future, to what being a political subject will look like in a post-representational world.

Some of the topics that would be appropriate for this special issue include but are not limited to:

• How and in what ways political genealogy aims, in the words of Nikolas Rose, “to reshape and expand the terms of political debate, enabling different questions to be asked, enlarging the space of legitimate contestation.”
• Genealogies of cosmopolitanism and post-national identity.
• Counter-memory as an instrument of political freedom.
• Genealogy as a method for understanding the new world order (with respect to, for example, globalization, Trumpism, Brexit, neo-populism, the rise of terrorism).
• Re-thinking, through genealogy, the politics of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
• Genealogy and neo-liberalism; genealogy and corporatocracy.
• Genealogy in practice, with respect to, for example, how governmentality and its institutions affect the lives of real individuals.

Prof. Dr. Michael Clifford

Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Genealogy is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

• foucault
• political genealogy
• genealogical methods
• counter-memory
• governmentality
• political identity

• NOTE TO CONTRIBUTORS
• For the instruction for the authors, please visit the journal website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/instructions
• When your paper is ready, please submit it to the editorial office's online system via the following link (but you need to register on the MDPI website (http://www.mdpi.com/) first and then use the link):
  http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=genealogy

Deadlline: 1st June 2018

Contact Info: 

Anyone wants to submit Please contact Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Michael Clifford (mclifford@philrel.msstate.edu) Journal managing editor Ms. Allie Shi(genealogy@mdpi.com)

Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com

URL: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special_issues/After_Foucault

Call for papers – Studies in South Asian Film & Media (SAFM) Special Issue -- Hindutva Politics and South Asian Cinema–Media in the Age of Modi

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Since the start of Narendra Modi’s term as India’s prime minister, one witnesses a resurgence of the Hindu far right and Hindutva politics in India, as well as corresponding movements in Hindi cinema and media. From PK (2014) to the much anticipated, and delayed, Padma(a)vat(i) (2018), Bollywood and other forms of contemporary South Asian media have responded to the proliferation of right-wing Hindu ideologies in myriad, oftentimes contentious and frequently innovative ways. While the impact of such right-wing parties on Bollywood can be traced back to the release of Mani Ratnam’s Bombay (1995), this special issue seeks to examine the contemporary manifestations – and fraught interrelationships – of Hindutva politics and Hindi cinema and media during the time of Modi (2014 – present). We are particularly interested in examining the range of approaches taken towards Hindutva politics, whether it be the use of comedy or farce, as in PK, the melodramatic sentimentality of Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015), or the latest historical epics of Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Related to this theme is the subsequent rise of attacks, in person and via social media, upon directors and actors associated with such films, most notably, Bhansali and Deepika Padukone.

Hindutva cultural politics, however, are not limited to the theater screen or to contests over star personalities alone. Rather, we can see their manifestation in the blurring of boundaries between self and screen, self-representation and self-broadcast over social media. The most egregious elements of this are the ways in which perpetrators and bystanders record acts of violence in full daylight and broadcast them over social media. Its other, more everyday forms are Hindutva trolls and leaders holding forth on WhatsApp and other platforms, challenging the notion of news itself.

This special issue of Studies in South Asian Film & Media (SAFM) seeks papers addressing the representations of and reactions to Hindutva politics and ideologies in Hindi cinema and media during Modi’s tenure. Along with papers looking at the contemporary controversies surrounding Padma(a)vat(i), we welcome articles on the following topics:

• Genres, including comedy, horror, and the historical, that are being redefined to address Hindutva politics in India
• Contemporary representations of Indo-Pakistan relations
• The ‘fascist’ aesthetic of recent films, including Bajirao Mastani and Padma(a)vat(i), with regard to their cinematic excesses and glorifications of previous Hindu empires
• Hindutva politics in mainstream Indian television
• Hindutva trolls on social media
• Hindutva movements, boycotts and attacks against Hindi films, filmmakers and stars, including, e.g., Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Along with full-length essays exploring such topics, we are also interested in shorter, less formal pieces, including:

• Documentations of counter-movements working against the rise of Hindutva policies
• Interviews with Hindi filmmakers, television personalities and stars affected by Hindutva politics in recent years 
• Working notes by social media activists mobilizing against the contemporary rise of the Hindu far right in everyday life

If you are interested in submitting to this special issue of SAFM (10.1), due to appear in early 2019, please send a 300-500 word abstract to Ajay Gehlawat (gehlawat@sonoma.edu) by March 15, 2018. Please also include a brief bio with your abstract. 

Final drafts of accepted proposals will be due by July 15, 2018. Please see SAFM’s guidelines for further details regarding submitting and formatting, and feel free to email beforehand with any inquiries.

Contact Info: 

Ajay Gehlawat

Contact Email: gehlawat@sonoma.edu

URL: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=156/