New Geographies: Studies in Postcoloniality and Globalization

Open Call For Papers

 

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs


Dr. Shilpa Venkatachalam (Lecturer: UG Literatures in English, UWI)

Dr. Tia Cooper (Co-ordinator/Lecturer: UG Communication Studies, UWI)

 

The Organizing Committee for the New Geographies: Studies in Postcoloniality and Globalization Conference held on March 24th -26th 2011 at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, is extending the deadline for the submission of written papers for publication. The previous deadline was November 22nd 2011 but has now been extended to March 29th 2012.

  

Open Call

This last open call is geared towards receiving articles to be published within an edited volume of papers presented at the conference. Interested parties are invited to submit works which encompass the postcolonial realm and themes which seek to re-contextualize globalization, media, gender, imperialism, colonization, politics, religion, literature, transnationalism and the diaspora. Furthermore, we invite submissions dealing with power relations within the Global South, debates about whether or not we have reached the decisive end of postcolonialism and the juncture where postcolonial theory and studies should be pushed beyond its current parameters.The choice of topic is not limited to the above, but must fit into the general area of postcoloniality and globalization. Some other topics of interest:

  • New Geographies of power: how can postcolonial theory account for the multiple heterogeneity and the various, contested voices and positions that make up the global South?
  • Travelling cultures: postcolonial take on mobility and transnational connections
  • The politics of radicalization in the globalizing world of the 21st century
  • Thinking beyond binaries (self/other, colonial/postcolonial, silence/voice and so on.)
  • Agency, cultural representation and communicative practices
  • The relationship between the notion of history and the term ‘postcolonial’
  • Technology , digital divides and Globalization; globalization and localization of technologies within old and emerging configurations of power
  • Identity and Eurocentric discourse
  • Sex, sexualities and the rise of religion in the 21st century
  • Ethnicity , class and conflict
  • Environment, postcolonialism and the Globalized World

 

Papers and enquiries should be sent to newgeographies@yahoo.com in care of the Conference’s Organizing Committee, again, no later than March 29th 2012. Each submission should include:


(1) The e-mail address of the author
(2) A narrative biography of  the author, no more than 125 words
(3) An essay which should not exceed 4,000 words excluding references. All links         

      to sources, figures and tables, should be thoroughly checked.

 

All candidates will be advised of the status of their submission after April 30th 2012.