[MGSA-L] CFP: Journal of Greek Media and Culture Special issue

Papadimitriou, Lydia L.Papadimitriou at ljmu.ac.uk
Thu Apr 26 08:17:21 PDT 2018


CALL FOR ARTICLES
Journal of Greek Media and Culture
Special Issue 5.2 (2019)

Guest Editor: Dimitris Plantzos

Provisional title:
Athens Remains. Still? A metropolis in precarity.

Ancient Athens was celebrated by European classicism as “the eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence”, a charming city “of studious walks and shades”. As part of the neoclassicist project, in return,  contemporary Athens became the nation’s capital and the focus of much, though some times unwanted, international attention. Today, housing roughly 40% of the Greek population and more than half of foreign immigrants and refugees residing in Greece, Athens and Attica form a challenging metropolis, thriving with urban energy, creativity, and frustration. The first two decades of the 21st century found Athens hosting the second Modern Olympics in its history (after the inaugural event of 1896 and a failed attempt at hosting the Games for 1996), then having to come to terms with a violent economic, political and social crisis, still in motion. As the city is struggling with the long-term effects of a prolonged recession, the collapse of traditional economic practices, and the challenges for social cohesion posed by neoliberal politics of austerity and surveillance, we are in need of a rethinking of Athens in its present state of precarity.

Our aim is to publish a special issue on 21st-century Athens in a forthcoming volume of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture (no. 5.2/2019). Taking our queue from Jacques Derrida’s Demeure, Athènes / Athens, Still Remains, “a moving meditation on the relations among photography, light, writing, memory, mourning, death, and survival”, according to Eduardo Cadava, we invite submissions from a wide number of fields (social and contemporary archaeology; archaeological ethnography; social anthropology; cultural history; literary, gender, and queer studies; architecture and urbanism studies; and so on) discussing issues such as:


•       Athenian heritage and its discontents: disputed pasts / heritages / sites

•       Institutional structure and symbolic capital: museums and opera houses

•       Diachronies of memory / palimpsests of oblivion: the neoclassical city today

•       Lives and narratives in a state of precarity: collectivities and spaces of assembly

•       Athenian subcultures: street arts, rebellion, the view “from the edge of the city”

•       The new Athenians: immigration and new (and/or denied) citizenship; Muslim Athens

•       Athens as a neoliberal utopia: the biopolitics of recession

•       Community and belonging in the city: neighbourhoods and microcities; the polykatoikia today

•       Athens in contemporary cultural expression

•       Queer(ing) Athens

•       Is Athens still a city? New communities, new collectives, new publics

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dimitris Plantzos at dkplantzos at arch.uoa.gr<mailto:dkplantzos at arch.uoa.gr> as early as possible, though before 28 May 2018.

A number of articles of 6,000-9,000 words each (inclusive of references and bibliographies) will be commissioned by July 2018, based on the abstracts submitted; acceptance of abstract does not guarantee publication of the article, which will be subject to the Journal’s standard peer-review process. Final typescripts will be expected on or before November 5, 2018. The volume is expected to appear in October/November 2019.

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Dr Lydia Papadimitriou
Reader in Film Studies
Liverpool John Moores University
Redmonds Building
Brownlow Hill
Liverpool
L3 5UG
Tel. 0151 2314857

http://ljmu.academia.edu/LydiaPapadimitriou

Principal Editor: Journal of Greek Media and Culture (Intellect) http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=237/view,page=0/
editorJGMC at gmail.com

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