(Image)ining Resistance

CALL FOR PAPERS

Editors: Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

We are seeking contributions for a collection of essays tentatively
titled(Image)ining Resistance. Our aim is to encourage interdisciplinary
approaches and critical examinations that address the use of visual imagery in
social and activist movements throughout history. From banners embroidered for
suffragette actions, to the impact of photographs taken in Soweto in 1976, to
political puppets created for recent global justice demonstrations, the
intersections between visual culture and activism relate a rich history with
transnational and transideological import. Interdisciplinary approaches are
encouraged, as are essays addressing a wide range of historical periods,
geographic regions and protest actions.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

- the image as a tool of persuasion
- the image as a site of resistance
- "activist" art
- anarchist art
- media coverage of protests and demonstrations
- protest as performance
- culture jamming
- historical analyses of art and protest

Please submit a 500 word abstract and one page c.v., including name and email
address to both Keri Cronin 9jklcqlink.queensu.ca and Kirsty Robertson
9kmrqlink.queensu.ca by August 1, 2004.

Though we prefer email submissions, snail mail submissions can be sent to:

(Image)ining Resistance
c/o Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
Department of Art
Ontario Hall
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6