Aftershocks:
Globalism and the future of democracy
From the
border: A cosmopolitan look at the cinema of globalization.
Global
processes have affected identities and social relations in drastic ways. Beyond
their positive and negative consequences, these processes have changed our ways
of looking at and understanding our place in a fast-changing world.
Cosmopolitan theories offer ways of looking at the various challenges posed by
globalization, from politics and economics to culture and the arts. Alongside
its aspirational dimension of envisioning a society of universal human rights
and respect for diversity, Cosmopolitanism offers a methodology for researching
political, social and cultural realities. Central to this enquiry, as several
theorists have argued—Gloria Anzaldúa, Anthony Cooper and Chris Rumford, Sandro
Mezzadra and Brett Neilson—are the concept of the border and the actual borders
and borderlands that affect the life of growing numbers of people across the
world.
Borders and
their representations are also central topoi in the cinema of globalization
and, as in the social sciences, they also provide a privileged vantage point
from which to explore industrial, cultural and aesthetic developments in
contemporary cinema. This workshop invites papers on films and audiovisual
texts that explore global processes with a particular emphasis on borders,
border-crossings and crossers, cross-border mobilities, border and borderland
identities, urban borders, and spaces that are associated with. While proposing
cosmopolitan theories as an aid to understanding the complexities,
contradictions and tensions of cinematic constructions of the global, it also
welcomes other perspectives and approaches to the cinema of globalization.
Please
submit a 350–500 word abstract to María del Mar Azcona, at maazcona@unizar.es.
Deadline: March 31, 2019.
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