SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY<\/p>\n
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION<\/p>\n
Communication and Global Power Shifts<\/p>\n
An International Conference in Celebration of the Vancouver, Canada, June 6-8, 2013<\/p>\n The volatile and chaotic nature of the current global system and the central role of \u2018communicative capital\u2019 in the constitution of the crisis-ridden global order bring new urgency to efforts to critically analyze enduring issues and new dynamics in global communications. A critical perspective requires that we look beyond dominant \u2018power shift\u2019 discourses, which focus primarily on the changing \u2018balance of power\u2019 among states, to consider other emerging power shifts, from the global workforce to transnational capital and from established institutions and entrenched power structures to networked individuals and \u2018multitudes.\u2019 The ongoing restructuring of the global political economy is at once challenging and accentuating existing forms of domination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Call for Papers<\/span>: This multifaceted topic invites interdisciplinary and multidimensional analysis, from the perspectives of political economy and policy, critical cultural analysis, and technology and society studies. The most promising lines of inquiry will involve projects that address political economy and cultural politics as they intersect critical categories such as empire, class, nation, race, and gender. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n40th<\/sup> Anniversary of the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University<\/p>\n\n