[acc-cca-l] Call for Statements of Interest: Cultural Production and Everyday Life Book Series

[Miranda Campbell]

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Dear colleagues,

Benjamin Woo (Carleton University) and I (Miranda Campbell, Toronto Metropolitan University) are pleased to share news of our new book series, Cultural Production and Everyday Life<https://www.concordia.ca/press/news.html>, to be published with Concordia University Press:

Please see below for information about our call for statements of interest in publishing with our book series, and be in touch with any questions.

Best,
Miranda


Cultural Production and Everyday Life<https://www.concordia.ca/press/series.html#cultural>

Series editors: Miranda Campbell<https://www.torontomu.ca/creativeindustries/people/faculty/mcampbell/> (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Benjamin Woo<https://carleton.ca/sjc/profile/woo-benjamin/> (Carleton University)

What happens to our view of culture and creativity when we ground it at the level of everyday life – something that is produced by people in particular contexts? The Cultural Production and Everyday Life series seeks to expand the study of culture to include a broader range of producers, practices, and predicaments while also moving beyond a blockbuster or superstar view of culture and creativity – a more limited notion that culture is good for the economy. Alongside being a source of livelihoods, cultural production is also a way for us to know ourselves, each other, and the world – a mode of engagement or disengagement, an orientation or an ethos.

This view of culture and creativity is a lens to register the processes of creating – and the intersections of social, economic, and cultural forces that ultimately shape products or outputs – but juicier analyses might be found by foregrounding the process or the lived experience, rather than the product in itself. Working through, mapping, or registering relationships between sectors, actors, policies, and cultural forms gives rise to a messier account of cultural production, circulation, and reception.

Cultural Production and Everyday Life is conceived as a series of short, accessibly written, print and open-access edition pamphlets of approximately 30,000–65,000 words that foreground such questions as:

• What are the enabling conditions that allow people to keep doing and making what they are doing and making?

• What contexts inform the cultural form that is being made? How are these contexts impacted by flows of power?

• How is a cultural form experienced, and what impact does it have on the context that informed it?

• If expansion and even longevity might not necessarily be the best indicators of success, how else can cultural importance and value be registered?

It publishes contributions that read either as manifestoes for new directions for studying the practices and contexts that shape the production of media, communication and culture, or as focused vignettes exploring particular sites, spaces, and practices in rich, empirical detail. Monographs, dialogues, forums, or other alternative formats are all welcomed. Potential topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Conceptual frameworks for approaching cultural production as lived experience;

• Forms of sociality, economic activity, or both emerging in relation to creative practices;

• Experiences of particular workers, consumers, fans, audiences, or residents in relation to cultural production and creative practice;

• Collectives, organizations, spaces, scenes, and unions that support cultural production;

• Ecological analysis of contemporary or historical forms of cultural production, informal, under-attentioned, or celebrated forms of creative practice;

• and Community-making and care as forms of cultural production.


All submissions should incorporate an intersectional analysis in their arguments. Publications in this series will be both print editions and open access ebooks, and, in dialogue with the series editors and Concordia University Press, the format can be tailored to suit the particular focus of the project. Please send inquiries or proposals to miranda.campbell at torontomu.ca<mailto:miranda.campbell at torontomu.ca>.

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Dr. Miranda Campbell
she/her
Associate Professor, School of Creative Industries
Graduate Program Director, Communication and Culture program
Toronto Metropolitan University
(416) 979-5000 x553519
KHS 349G

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