CfP: The Aesthetics of Human Rights

How do we gain senses of our times as defined by human rights – human rights as a “master term,” as Arjun Appadurai phrased it, or “cultural dominant,” in the words of Frederic Jameson? What, after all, is the aesthetic culture of human rights, and what modes of textual, intellectual-historical, critical-theoretical, sociological and philosophical-aesthetic investigation may we bring to bear on rights “culture?” Authors with human rights interests from cultural studies, media studies, sociology, history, art history, film studies, discourse studies, literary studies, philosophy, intellectual history and other relevant areas are asked to submit abstracts to contribute to a thorough treatment of the “aesthetics of human rights.”

Read here the full text of this call for contributions to the online journal Academic Quarter, published at Aalborg University, Denmark. Deadline for suggestions: 1 June; for accepted articles: 1 August 2012.