CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Project title: Narratives of contemporary crisis through/as monstrosity
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: York St John University
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  monsters; borders; transnational; media; representation

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  We are looking for partners to develop a European collaboration to investigate how narratives of crisis are represented as, or through, tropes of monstrosity. This project is building of out an existing coalition of scholars working on how monstrosity has been reframed in an era of perpetual cycles of crisis that have been represented, largely in cinema, through a focus predominantly on monstrous otherness, but also through the lens of cultural and political monstrosity. We’re therefore looking to expand this project further across Europe to consider how such narratives transcend national or supranational boundaries, and we’re particularly keen to consider hidden narratives of crisis, stretching from individuals to marginalised groups and on national/transnational levels. The initial partners have a range of expertise, largely in cinema studies, so we’re keen to extend the exploration to a cross-disciplinary mix of scholars with expertise in a range of media and arts.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The intention of this project is to look at how contemporary narratives of crisis are narrativised by, or through, tropes of monstrosity. Individual and historical narratives are often well served in terms of considering how crisis is interpreted through a monstrous lens, but the intention here is to look at a more recent timeframe to consider how major global crises (climate crisis, pandemics, migration/displacement, wars, etc.) have been narrated through a range of monstrous media (this could include cinema, games, fine art, photography, TV, and others). The intention, through cross-border collaboration, would also be to research hidden narratives of monstrous crisis (or how individuals and groups become represented as monstrous at times of crisis) that are more local or transregional in nature, and obscured by global and hegemonic crisis narratives.

Steve Rawle

• Organisation: York St John University
• Position: Associate Professor, Media Production
• E-mail: s.rawle@yorksj.ac.uk
• Phone: +44 1904 876584
• Web: www.yorksj.ac.uk/our-staff/staff-profiles/steve-rawle.php