[KS] Reminder: Deadline: 10th Jan] Call for Paper: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2017 (July 28-30, 2017 Songkonghoe University, Seoul, South Korea)

YOUNGHAN CHO yhydocsport at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 22:20:13 EST 2017


Call for Paper: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2017 (July 28-30,
2017 Songkonghoe University, Seoul, South Korea)

Apologies for cross-posting and
Deadline for inclusion of this panel is 10th January, 2017.

Panel proposers:

Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Koji Kobayashi, Lincoln University, New Zealand



Panel Theme: Sport Celebrity in Asia”



Sport celebrity is now a constant feature of mass media and a familiar
figure for people to look up to in their everyday lives across the
globe. Compared
to film stars and television personalities, those who attain sport
celebrity can be distinguished by their excellent athletic abilities, the
sense of authenticity assigned to them by their fans, and the unstable
containment of their fame (Andrews & Jackson, 2001). In Asia which is
increasingly designated as a host of mega-sporting events such as the 2002
Korea-Japan World Cup and the 2008 Beijing Olympics (with 2018 Pyeongchang
Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics in sight), there have been proliferation
of media images and narratives of athletes whose nationality, ethnicity,
gender and other cultural identity are vigorously discussed and constructed
as part of political discourses of dominant cultures and stereotypes within
a respective nation. Much like sport celebrities in the West, this rise of
sporting cultural economy has been accompanied by an increased degree of
sport celebrities’ mobility in terms of their bodies and fame going beyond
the boundaries of their countries of origin and attaining regional or even
global significance. However, such transnational movements have been also
constrained by the unique historical, political and cultural contexts of
Asia with respect to postcolonial sensibility, rigid regulations of
citizenship, sport-infused nationalism and intense political tensions
between governments. At the same time, the consumption of the media,
through which sport celebrity is represented, has been dramatically altered
by the rapid development and prominent usage of media technologies through
the internet and smartphones in Asia, and particularly India, South Korea,
China, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan. Therefore, as the most populous and
diverse region in the world, Asia offers a unique site of contested
terrains between ‘mobile’ sport celebrities and relatively ‘immobile’
political regimes of the nation-states in the changing media ecology.



Although sport celebrities carry symbolic significance, there has been
little scholarly attempts to examine national, regional and global
relevance and implications of sport celebrity in Asia. Thus, this panel
session will invite papers that address the following questions: 1) What
makes ‘sport’ celebrity unique in Asia?; 2) How is sport celebrity in Asia
articulated with local, regional or global significance?; and, 3) How are
representations of sport celebrities in Asia produced and consumed via the
new media technologies?



In this regard, we encourage submissions for topics including, though not
limited to:



   -

   Representation and symbolic power of sport celebrities in Asia
   -

   Cross-national comparison of media construction of sport celebrities’
   images in Asia
   -

   Media production and consumption of sport celebrity in Asia
   -

   Gender difference and homosexuality in sport celebrity in Asia
   -

   Postcolonial desires and sport fandom in Asia
   -

   Asian diaspora and sport celebrity
   -

   Mega-events in Asia and trans-local mobility of sport celebrities
   -

   Glocality of sport celebrities in Asia

Proposals should include a title of a paper, abstract of up to 300 words in
length, author’s bio (about 100 words), affiliated institution, email
address and nationality (as this is required by the conference).

*Please send **individual **proposals **by January 10, 2017** to both**:*

*choy at hufs.ac.kr* <choy at hufs.ac.kr>* and koji.kobayashi at lincoln.ac.nz
<koji.kobayashi at lincoln.ac.nz>*

For the conference information, please refer to:

http://culturalstudies.asia/about_iacs_conference_2017/







Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Koji Kobayashi, Lincoln University, New Zealand


-- 
Assoicate Professor (Ph.D in Communication Studies)
Dept. of Kkorean Studies, GSIAS, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Homepage: https://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho
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