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

documenting what happened, not waiting for something to happen, but helping anything happen. By
following Hujanen through 2016 and interviewing people working with him, I study the ongoing change in
documentary photography. What kinds of new narrative strategies are demanded of and created by
photographers to succeed in mediating the world in a credible way? I compare the move in documentary
photography from realist illusion to hybrid narration to contemporary literary fiction, where the “novel from
life” with the “essay self” as its narrator is currently challenging the traditional novel.
Yusuf Ali Hayat Entangled Cultural Fields Intersubjectivity and contemporary art of the Islamic diaspora
Since 9/11 there has been a proliferation of exhibitions in Western Europe, North America and Australia of
“Islamic” art and culture that attempt to engender cross-cultural understanding. Established art institutions
influence a socio-political agenda by determining the terms on which the public experience art of the
“other”. While attempting to counter the discourse of a “Clash of Civilisations”, cultural curation under the
banner of “Islam” inadvertently risks reinforcing Orientalist perspectives. Muslim artists in diaspora
recognise art does not sit in a vacuum. They are active within larger fields of power in society and the art
world, inviting viewers to critically evaluate power structures through art. The complex cultural identity
intersections of some Muslim artists in diaspora reject Islam as an overarching signifier of identity. This
paper examines intersubjectivity in art – the overlaps between individual subjective worlds – and proposes
an alternate perspective on how to experience the cultural “other”.
Ann-Katrine S. Nielsen Veterans in Danish Media and Contemporary Art – A study of the returned soldier as
discursive-affective assemblage in Danish media and contemporary art
Denmark does not have a contemporary practice and history of warfare. However, this was changed during
the 1990s and 2000s with the implementation of a new active, outward oriented Danish foreign policy (e.g.
Rasmussen: 69) and the participation in the wars in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. These international
engagements have in terms of Danish society and culture respectively brought about what anthropologist
Birgitte Refslund Sørensen describes as a new social category (Sørensen: 232) and what I term a new
“unsettled” (Cho) and “unsettling” cultural figure, namely the veteran. Thus, I ask how veterans are
discursively and affectively assembled in Danish media and contemporary art, and how veterans themselves
might unfold a perspective or voice through diverse art and media practices.
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Football cultures and racism (Chair, Tobias Zuser)
Jacco van Sterkenburg Football (soccer), audience discourses and racialized hierarchies
Mediated men’s football (soccer) is a key domain where meanings given to race and ethnicity are
(re)produced on an everyday basis to massive audiences. Due to its multi-ethnic character and popularity in
many countries worldwide, the role of football as a catalyst for discourses about race/ethnicity cannot be
ignored in contemporary multicultural societies. In this presentation I will present findings from a recently
finished and an ongoing study that look into the (re)production of institutionalized racialized discourses in
the domains of football media (content and reception) and football coaching. The studies reveal how
commonsensical racialized/ethnicized discourses are incorporated in football journalism and also circulate
within the wider football industry and among audiences resulting in racial/ethnic hierarchies and practices of
in- and exclusion in and beyond football. My main point of reference is the Dutch (and European) context
and findings will be interpreted using a cultural studies lens.
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