Call for papers on Migrations/Mediations – Promoting transcultural dialogue through media, arts and culture
Comunicazioni Sociali. Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies has announced a call for papers for their special issue:
Migrations / Mediations. Promoting transcultural dialogue through media, arts and culture, eds. Pierluigi Musarò, Nikos Papastergiadis, Laura Peja (n. 1/2022, due in April 2022)
This special issue of Comunicazioni Sociali intends to invite international scholars, artists and practitioners to discuss through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives 1) the role of media, arts and culture in the management of policies and practices devoted to migration phenomena; 2) the ways and the degrees in which media, arts and culture have been considered as critical tools for transcultural dialogue; 3) the ways in which media, arts and culture have been used in processes of artistic creation within the framework of the “aesthetic cosmopolitanism”; 4) ways through which models of action in territories oriented toward bringing host populations into contact with migrants and refugees can be developed; 5) the specific set of tools and methodology that have been developed to assess social, cultural and economic impact of multi-, inter- and transcultural dialogue activities through arts, media and culture.
More information on the topics and submission details can be found here.