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Appel à Communications : Colloque « Quels nationalismes au XXIème ? Regards croisés Europe / Amériques »

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 12. Oktober 2021

Lieu : Grenoble
Date: les 1, 2 et 3 juin 2022

Date limite : ~~31 octobre 2021~~ prolongé jusqu’au 17 décembre!

« Le nationalisme c’est la guerre » déclara en 1995 François Mitterrand, à l’issue d’un long discours de présentation des objectifs de la présidence française de l’Union européenne au premier semestre 1995. Prononcée dans un contexte d’intégration européenne, puis reprise depuis par de nombreux hommes politiques français, dont François Hollande et plus récemment Emmanuel Macron, en réaction à la montée de l’extrême droite, cette association entre nationalisme et guerre doit, en Occident, se comprendre comme la conséquence directe des deux conflits mondiaux qu’a connu le XXème siècle. Parce qu’il a inspiré les régimes militaires que l’on sait en Allemagne, en Italie et au Japon, le nationalisme a longtemps été discrédité par toute une génération, contemporaine, de près ou de loin, depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.
Or, non seulement le nationalisme ne représente-t-il plus le même tabou pour les nouvelles générations, mais la montée en puissance des partis d’extrême droite et des mouvements populistes ces dix dernières années semble témoigner d’un retour en force de cette idéologie, d’autant plus flagrante qu’elle coïncide avec le déclin des partis traditionnels autour desquels s’était construit l’échiquier politique depuis plus de cinquante ans dans de nombreux pays occidentaux.
Pour autant, le nationalisme auquel nous assistons aujourd’hui n’est pas celui des années 1930 et il revêt différentes formes, à différentes échelles, régionales et nationales qu’il nous semble pertinent d’essayer de comprendre et de définir, dans ses multiples acceptions, d’un contexte politique et culturel à un autre.

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CFP for Special Issue of Canadian Literature: Poetics and Extraction

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 9. Oktober 2021

Deadline: May 15, 2022

In “Tarhands: A Messy Manifesto,” Métis scholar Warren Cariou rewrites William Carlos Williams’ poem “This Is Just to Say” into a time capsule to be opened in a hundred years:

This is just to say

We’ve burned up all the oil

and poisoned the air

you were probably hoping to breathe.

Forgive us.

It was delicious

the way it burned

so bright and

so fast.

Cariou’s poem is an extraction poem in several senses. It is about oil and the petrostate, and it mirrors the modes and moods of a petro-capitalist imaginary. It is also an act of extraction—of mining, cracking, and refining Williams’ poem and the literary tradition. Cariou sums up the history and the poetics of the settler-colonial extractive state, with its illegitimate literal and literary land claims, its pretenses of conservation and of wondering “where is here” while occupying stolen land, and its always failing repression of the wilderness. For Cariou and his imagined reader, it all amounts to “just” a selfish and short-sighted folly. Situated within the manifesto form, the poem becomes available as one mode or element of a larger argument for cultural and social change.

Cariou’s intervention also belongs to traditions of resource, extractive, oil, and land poetics in so-called Canada. These traditions include Indigenous poetics as “land speaking” (Jeannette Armstrong) and resistance literature (Emma LaRocque); Confederation-era poetry like Isabella Valency Crawford’s Malcolm’s Katie; Robert Service’s mining ballads; the logger poetry of Robert Swanson and Peter Trower; oil poetry from Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk to Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons; diasporic poetics on place, identity, property, and land, including Dionne Brand’s Land to Light On, Canisia Lubrin’s The Dyzgraphxst, and Brandon Wint’s Divine Animal; plastic poetry by Fiona Tinwei Lam and Adam Dickinson; activist and anti-pipeline poetry such as Rita Wong’s undercurrent and The Enpipe Line; climate change poetry as in Watch Your Head; Indigenous, Black, and speculative futurisms such as Tanya Tagaq’s Retribution and Kaie Kellough’s fiction and sound performances; and myriad other examples not listed here.

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CFP: National Association of Native American Studies – Virtual National Conference

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 5. Oktober 2021

February 14-19, 2022, NAAAS & Affiliates, Westbrooke, ME/USA

Deadline: November 13, 2021

https://www.naaas.org/

The National Association of Native American Studies encourages colleagues in the social sciences and related fields to participate in the 2022 Virtual Conference. Topics may include, but are not limited to: mass incarceration and policing, federal government stripping land, exploitation of natural resources, violence against women, inadequate health care, youth suicide, education systems, housing, Native languages, community impoverishment, and other topics that relate to any aspect of the Native American and Indigenous experience. Presentations must be limited to 25 OR 45 minutes

Forward an abstract not exceed two (2) pages, and full contact information by November 13, 2021 to: NAAASConference@NAAAS.org

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CFP for Special Issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies: „Pandemic Perspectives: Racialized and Gendered Experiences of Refugee and Immigrant Families in Canada“

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 30. September 2021

Deadline: November 15, 2021

This special issue on the impact of the pandemic on refugee and immigrant families in Canada seeks to capture the gendered and racialized experiences of families of refugees and immigrants during the pandemic. The pandemic has amplified many of the existing underlying inequities including racial injustices and gender-based discriminations. Racialized refugees and immigrant families in Canada were especially vulnerable to the marginalizing social outcomes of the pandemic. For instance, during the pandemic hate crimes against Asian and Muslim immigrants and refugees has been at an all-time high in Canada; college educated immigrant women have experienced the highest rates of unemployment; immigrant careworkers of colour have died at disproportionally high rates; and refugee families have experienced prolonged family separations, barriers to health care and higher rates of domestic violence.

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Call for Contributions: ReVisions – Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada (essay collection)

Beitragsautor Von GKS
Beitragsdatum 28. September 2021

Edited by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan

Deadline: February 1, 2022

During a global pandemic, the ways that speculative fiction, film, and television comment on the present as well as the future have become acutely evident. These genres ask readers to consider environmental, health, technological, and political events and developments in the world today, and the impacts these may have on the world of the future. They are often used by their creators to represent and speculate on key societal issues, such as relations of class, gender, and race, as well as issues of health safety, environmental destruction, and political conflict. In Canada, speculative writing has become a tool to interrogate colonial systems and histories, and to open up spaces for members of often marginalized groups, including women, Indigenous peoples, members of LGBTQ2S+ communities, and others whose lives are inflected by cultural difference. A variety of speculative worlds have achieved popularity through films and television/internet series, some of which are adapted from other genres.

We invite submission of academic papers and creative works that explore or put into practice the re-envisioning/revision of futures and societies in or relating to Canada. What do speculative texts tell us? Which visions of “Canada” do we find in speculative texts? How do these visions reflect our own perceptions of the world? Does this kind of literary and/or visual imagination offer space for grief, resilience, and hope? Does it help us respond constructively to crises or achieve social change?