The Border Studies, Cultural Economy, and Migration area of the Popular Culture Association invites abstract submissions for the 2022 Conference. We seek papers that address migration and/or borders and borderlands with attention to specific sociopolitical contexts and junctures. Thus, we prioritize submissions that show engagement with both the Humanities and the Social Sciences, through an understanding of the cultural (i.e. literary, visual, sonic, and material culture at large) as an expression of political and economic junctures that are historically specific.
We understand ‘borders’ as both ideological and material, and thus, we accept papers that address the cultural in tandem with:
- Specific lived experiences in areas transversed by national borderlands
- Processes of social inclusion, exclusion, and containment.
- Human mobility at large, and most specifically as inseparable from experiences of human displacement, including experiences of resettlement and/or the regulation of human movement.
Papers may be presented in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish. Proposals for organized sessions are also welcome. Please send an abstract of no more than 150 words to Araceli Masterson-Algar, Area Chair at: aracelimasterson@ku.edu.
