This special issue seeks to gather new work on and about the creative and cultural industries of, related to, and connected with South Asia, both from across its diasporas and from around the world. The creative and cultural industries can be viewed as bringing together different sectors (for instance arts and crafts; businesses and commerce; old and new media; audio, visual and literary cultures etc.), and include narratives about creativity, finance, challenges, and selfhood formation for its producers, workers and users alike. In many parts of the world the creative and cultural industries are contributing to the making of place and space in terms of urban regeneration, which include novel ways of managing work-life relationships, particularly as people work in and consume the products of these industries in different ways. As such, popular cultures are often formed and shaped anew in and through these industries and their cultural practices.
This CFP for South Asian Popular Culture is interested in collating new research that will document some of the breadth and range of the creative and cultural industries in and beyond South Asia, and how we might best research, represent and write about these sectors through cutting edge methodologies from across the arts and humanities, business studies and social science disciplines. Submissions could include (but not limited to) work on:
- Specific case study examples of the workings of and practices from South Asian creative and cultural industries in the production of popular cultures
- Contemporary artistic production and the nurturing of creativity
- ‘Old’ and ‘new’ ways of working in the creative and cultural industries
- The products of these industries and their relationships with users (e.g. do such relationships help firms to enable and sustain creativity?)
- Forms of cooperation that exist among creative/cultural businesses as well as between creative/cultural businesses and firms from other sectors
- Theorising the South Asian creative and cultural industries
- Finance, policies, commerce, cultural exchanges, challenges and opportunities
- The role of cluster policies in supporting cultural and creative industries
- Creative and cultural industries between and beyond South Asia and its diasporas
Submission Instructions
The Editors of this special issue, Dr Rajinder Dudrah and Dr Khaleel Malik, welcome full-length articles (6-7,000 words), shorter pieces, visual essays, interviews, and book reviews for consideration. The special issue will be published in 2017.
All articles submitted to SAPC will undergo initial editorial screening and then peer review before a final decision is taken.
The Editors welcome inquiries and abstract proposals of up to 300 words to this call by 30 June 2015. The submission of full articles will be invited from the short-listing of abstracts.
Editorial information
- Edited by: Rajinder Dudrah (rajinder.dudrah@manchester.ac.uk )
- Edited by: Khaleel Malik (khaleel.malik@mbs.ac.uk )