Please forward to potentially interested parties:
Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "Zines
and Everyday Life: The Anatomy of an Independent Medium." The purpose of
this book is to evaluate the role of zines as a method of communication and
as a form of cultural production. Ideally this collection will be a
comprehensive introductory textbook for the study of zines, independent
media, and culture, and will be suitable for use at both undergraduate and
graduate levels.
Possible topics include historical interrogations of zines, and their
cultural significance, as well as media-based analyses of zines and their
differential aspects. Studies of the aesthetics of zines, the embodiment of
politics, modes of discourse and power in independent cultures, modes of
consumption and production of "non-capitalist" mediums, identity formation,
and bricolage. Studies should not limit themselves to music and traditional
fanzines, but also include those focused upon politics, humor, sports,
shopping, etc.
Studies of Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Class, Sexuality, Technology and any
number of methodological approaches are appropriate and not limited to:
Phenomenology, Sociology, Literary Analysis, Anthropology, Ethnography,
Post-colonial Studies, Culture Studies, Historical Analysis, Psychology,
Semiotics, Folklore, Journalism, Feminist and Gender Studies, etc.
Please submit 2-page proposals or completed manuscripts (MLA style, 15-25
pages in length) to:
Reconstruction Reader Submissions
104 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226
kschilt@reconstruction.ws
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the
above email addresses.
The deadline for submission of completed papers is December 31st, 2002.
This collection co-edited by Kristen Schilt and J. J. Palmer.
A full version of this call for papers is available at:
http://www.reconstruction.ws/projects/zinescfp.htm
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