JAAC Announces CFP for Special Issue on Creative Activism

The Editors of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism announce a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on The Aesthetics of Creative Activism. Guest editors will be Elspeth Tilley and Nicholas Holm. Publication is expected in Spring 2023. The deadline for submission is August 1, 2022.

The Editors welcome submissions on any philosophically informed exploration of artistic forms as activist interventions., including, but not limited to:

• Ethics and morality in and of artistic activism
• Relationships between aesthetic value and artistic activism
• Affect and effect in and of creative activism
• Race, creativity and social justice: from jazz music to BLM and beyond
• Advancing an aesthetic theory of creative activism
• Didacticism and its discontents
• Pandemic shock, climate grief, and compassion fatigue: artistic responses to overwhelming topics
• Catharsis and creative activism: compatible or opposing forces?
• Creative activists as futurists: the role of artistic imagination in accelerating social change and generating future solutions
• Creative activism evaluation: how does scholarship from aesthetics and art criticism help us determine outcomes and effectiveness?
• First-order change versus second-order change: can art achieve systemic alteration or only awareness and individual empowerment?
• Critically analyzing the forms, claims and creative processes of artistic activism: avoiding art-washing, and challenging assumptions about what works, what has value, and why
• Decolonization, anti-capitalism, and the role of creative activism in resistance or transformation

Submissions should not exceed 7,500 words and must comply with the general guidelines for submissions (see “Author Guidelines” on the JAAC page on the Oxford University Press website: https://academic.oup.com/jaac/pages/general-instructions. Upload submissions to the JAAC online submission website, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jaac, making sure they are identified as submissions for the special issue.

If you have questions please contact:
Nicholas Holm < N.H.F.Holm@massey.ac.nz> or Elspeth Tilley < E.Tilley@massey.ac.nz>

For the complete cfp: https://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/files/jaac/cfp_jaac_creative_activism_.docx