Call for Papers IPSA 2025 in Seoul, South Korea
Panel PL-6152 Visual Politics in the Global Majority: Alternative Perspectives and Creative Directions to Political Analysis
Deadline: NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Chair: Assistant Professor Noe John Joseph E. Sacramento, PhD Cand.
Co-Chair: Associate Professor Dr. Regletto Aldrich D. Imbong
University of the Philippines Cebu
About this panel: As we revisit the height of a global pandemic, the public becomes closer to visuality through various forms of media, virtual engagement, and web networking platforms. People have resorted to conforming to the “new visual” and “mediated reality” as part of measures to contain the spread of the virus and prioritize public health security. These new platforms have subsequently sparked political debates and discussions that have stirred socio-political issues within the context of the global majority. To mention a few: the #MilkTeaAlliance between Taiwan, Thailand, and Hong Kong, the Thai Youth Protest in 2020, Japan’s Mask Culture and Politico-Fashion Statements, the Military Coup and Civil Disobedience in Myanmar, South Korea’s Digital Art and Pop Culture, and the Pink Revolution and Elections in the Philippines. The intersections between visuality and creativity with politics were emphasized during the peak of the crisis, where people were left with limited channels to express dissent against autocracy, hegemonic powers, and authoritarian nostalgia.
This panel welcomes academics, practitioners, and researchers who work on the Global Majority with a particular focus on methods, theory, and practice in visual politics. We encourage contributions that examine visual politics in the global majority, with attention to topics such as autocracy and democracy, hegemony and global superpowers, and authoritarian regimes. We also welcome works in the context of the pandemic and beyond that explore visual politics within themes such as (but not limited to): technological development; narratives, discourses, and worldviews; peace and conflict; foreign policy and diplomacy; democracy, civil disobedience, and civil rights; public health; affects and emotions; identity politics; nationalisms; creative industries, soft power, and public policy; creative perspectives, agenda-setting, and public policy; and visual politics as deliberation, political analysis, and policy analysis.
To submit papers, please follow this link: https://wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/submit-paper
For more information, you may email the panel chair through: [email protected]