CfP: Gender and Consumer Cultures in Late- and Post-Authoritarian Greece, Spain and Portugal, 1960s–1980s

[June Samaras]

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From: Kostis Kornetis <korn...@gmail.com>
Date: 11 June 2013 12:22

Please have a look at the call for papers below and ciculate accordingly.

Call for papers

Gender and consumer cultures in late- and post-authoritarian Greece,
Spain and Portugal, 1960s–1980s

We invite scholars to submit abstracts for a proposed volume on the
intersection of gender and consumer cultures in Greece, Portugal and
Spain from the 1960s to 1980s. The three countries serve as ideal
examples for a comparative and, potentially, a transfer analysis,
based on similarities with regards to their political and financial
conditions as well as to the significant social and cultural changes
that occurred in the late period and in the aftermath of the Francoist
regime (1936/39–1975), the Estado Novo (1933–1974) and the military
dictatorship in Greece (1967–1974). We welcome the contribution of
scholars working in diverse fields of the humanities, such as history,
anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, discourse
theory, political theory and performance studies.

Potential topics (in relation to one of three countries, or from a
comparative/transfer perspective) are:

Consumer culture and identity/relation of individual to collective.
Relationship between consumer expectations and actual practice. Impact
of migration and tourism
Spaces, objects, performances: leisure, spaces, fashion, cosmetics, sex shops
The ‘production of consumption’; the crafting and impact of advertising
Representations of gender and consumption, circulating, among others,
in newspapers, textbooks, tourist brochures, publications of diverse
actors, such as political parties, consumer associations and the
church
Emergence of gender stereotypes, normativity, gender performativity
(for instance, queer/drag)

Please read the detailed description, which can be downloaded from
http://www.academia.edu/3672255/Gender_and_consumer_cultures_in_late-_and_post-authoritarian_Greece_Spain_and_Portugal_1960s-1980s

Abstracts:

Maximum of 300 words, to include topic (from the above list; other
ideas welcome), a thesis statement, approach and methodology.

Deadline: Abstracts should be emailed by 20 August, to new...@gmail.com

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr. Kostis Kornetis
(korn...@gmail.com), Dr. Eirini Kotsovili (eirini....@gmail.com)
and Dr. Nikolaos Papadogiannis (npapa...@gmail.com)