Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 14-17th December 2016 Program Index

to the consumption of Jamaica as nation. Importantly, Jamaica’s cultural and creative industries and the
articulation of brand Jamaica has to take account of the global reggae economy around events, consumers
and producers. The movement of music, people, and philosophies needs to be understood in all its
dimensions because it is a crucial fulcrum around which Jamaica’s cultural and creative industries hinge. This
paper also makes an assessment of visual, performance, philosophical and cultural products, and clashes
over them, in marijuana use, human rights, and use of Jamaican symbols, for example, to advance
conceptualization of the Jamaican state in a dynamic, borderless production of its brand. I argue that
Jamaica’s reach and importance render its particular form of statehood as a sort of “celebrity”. Through
detailed view of reggae festivals therefore, and the inherent movement of patrons, music and their ideas
about living, statements are made about the politics of musical pilgrimage broadly, and the politics and
significance of the global consumption of Jamaican popular culture specifically.
Karen Langgård The dilemmas of being in charge: Discourses in Greenlandic fiction and songs about mineral and oil
extraction
In colonial times (1721-1953) it was easy for Greenlanders to dream of the richness to be found in the
mountains of Greenland – and we find this mirrored in the Greenlandic fiction and national songs. Likewise it
was easy to protest in poems and songs against the Danish State’s plans about extracting oil in the 1970s
when Greenland was constitutionally part of Denmark (1953-1979). But what happened when Greenlanders
got home rule (1979-2009) without rights to the subsurface and later self-government (2009-) with rights to
the subsurface and the non-renewable resources? Which discourses and discussions do we find in the
society – and are they mirrored in fiction and songs?
5G
Sexuality and urban space (Chair, Jess Kean)
Ayaka Yoshimizu
A Ghostscape at the Site of Displacement
In January 2005, a raid organized by the Prefectural Police in Yokohama, Japan, evicted independent sex
trade businesses run by migrant women, predominantly from other regions of Asia in the marginalized
district of Koganecho. The police and a group of local residents promoted the eradication of baishun
[prostitution], using slogans about making the neighbourhood “safe” and “secure” and free of illegal
foreigners and HIV carriers. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork, I present an embodied sense of what
happens after displacement in the neighbourhood at the level of everyday practices and encounters. While
the material traces of the displaced migrants have been erased through the physical transformation of the
neighbourhood and the authorities’ reinterpretation of the neighbourhood’s past, this paper attempts to
evoke a “ghostscape,” an affective memoryscape that demands our attention to the lives that were
displaced and concealed from our view.
Jan Philipp Filmer
“Keep Sydney Open”: Lockout laws and the “sexual purification” of urban space
In January 2014, Barry O’Farrell announced reforms to the NSW Liquor Act in an attempt to curb alcoholrelated
violence. In February, the State Government passed new laws requiring 1.30am lockouts and 3am
last drinks in venues within the newly defined Kings Cross and Sydney CBD Entertainment Precincts. Drawing
on a comparison with New York’s zoning laws of 1995, I show that queer publics are particularly vulnerable
to governmental interventions targeting adult businesses. Adult businesses catering to queers are spaces
within which sexual minorities contest and negotiate heteronormative hegemony. These sites allow for the
concretization of what Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner refer to as “queer counterpublics”: civic
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