Call for Papers
2019: Volume 11, Issue 1
Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries
The Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition
Guest Editor:
Dr. Tina Sikka, Newcastle University, UK
In the field of transnational media studies, food and food cultures are traditionally examined as a type of media content, environmental/commodity object, or mode of sustenance (with some cultural significance), or, alternatively, as medium through which relations of gender, class, sexuality, and dis/ability are made manifest. Given this bifurcated lens, this issue seeks to bring together articles that examine the nexus between food cultures, identity, and media representation in more detail. Specifically, we seek submissions that use food as a lens through which to study how its mediated representation (e.g. television, print, film, the Internet/social media) reflects complicated histories of colonialism, empire, neoliberalism, and inequality, but also cultural resilience, social belonging, community, and political awareness.
Papers that draw into this discussion the complicated relationship between food media and racialisation, gender, class, sexuality, dis/ability, and other manifestations of identity are particularly welcome – especially those that take an intersectional approach and engage with the significance of changing and culturally contingent conceptions of health and bodily comportment. Articles that examine the use of food as a form of power and resistance, in both productive and dangerous ways, and which reveal how larger patterns of oppression and marginalization intersect with the social imagery, political economy, public policy, and cultural survival are also desirable.
Topics for this issue might include (but are not limited to):
- Digital media representation and food culture
- Food and intersectional identities
- Food and the politics of representation
- Food and post-colonialism
- Neoliberalism and global food regimes
- Food, privilege, and mediated cultural capital
- The cultural economics of food
- Food and transnational identities
- Food and social activism
- Food, power, and bodies
- Food, power, and discourse
- Food, capitalist forms of signification, and resistance
The Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition (http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/) welcomes high-quality, original submissions on related topics to the above theme. Authors are strongly encouraged to contribute to the development of communication and media theories, report empirical and analytical research or present case studies, use critical discourses, and/or set out innovative research methodologies. The Journal is a bilingual (English and French) open-access online academic refereed publication.
Deadline: April 15th, 2019
Submissions: Papers (5,000 to 7,500 words), review articles of more than one book (2,500 to 3,000 words), and book reviews (1,000 to 1,200 words).
Method: All manuscripts must be submitted electronically as a word document to Dr. Tina Sikka (tina.sikka@newcastle.ac.uk)
Guidelines: Available at: http://www.gmj-canadianedition.ca/for-author
Decision: April 30th, 2019
Publication: June 30th, 2019
