[Air-L] CFP ICA 2026 Oceania Hub

[Sy Taffel]

Apologies for cross-posting



We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the ICA 2026 Oceania Hub: Communicative Equality Against Empire: Socialism, Anticapitalism, Anticolonialism, Antiimperialism, hosted by the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University, Te Papaioea Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand, 6–7 June 2026.



The Hub is a hybrid gathering (face-to-face and online) that convenes scholars, organizers, activists, trade unionists, and community partners to theorize and practice communicative equality as an explicitly socialist, anticapitalist, anticolonial, and antiimperialist project. Over two days, we will build a shared lexicon and shared practice of refusal, positioning communication scholarship as a terrain of class struggle, anticolonial organizing, and internationalist solidarity.



Submission themes include:



1. Socialism, Class, and the Political Economy of Communication

2. Anticolonialism, Land, and Indigenous Sovereignty

3. Antiimperialism and Global Solidarity

4. Refusal as Communicative Method

5. The Living Lexicon of Liberation — a collaborative, co-authored decolonial, anticapitalist, antiimperialist lexicon



We welcome individual papers, pre-constituted panels, workshops and movement clinics, multimodal and creative interventions, and lexicon entries.



Submission formats:

• Individual papers (250-word abstract)

• Pre-constituted panels of 3–5 papers (500-word rationale plus abstracts)

• Workshops and movement clinics (250-word abstract)

• Multimodal and creative interventions (250-word abstract)

• Lexicon entries (300–800 words)



Key dates:

• Submissions open: 15 April 2026

• Submission deadline: 2 May 2026

• Notification of acceptance: 6 May 2026

• Conference fee: NZD $200



Please send your extended abstracts to Debalina Dutta at D.Dutta at massey.ac.nz<mailto:D.Dutta at massey.ac.nz>. Include your name, affiliation, community or organizational ties where relevant, submission type, and a short bio (100 words).



We actively welcome submissions from scholars, organizers, and community partners working outside conventional academic infrastructures, and from those whose first language is not English. Submissions from Oceania, the Pacific Islands, South and Southeast Asia, and other Global South locations are especially encouraged.



Please circulate widely.



In solidarity,



Debalina, Mohan and Sy (organising committee, 2026 ICA Hub)



Sy Taffel, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/>

College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University

Email: s.a.taffel at massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel at massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527

Website: sytaffel.com<http://sytaffel.com/>



Taffel, S (2026) Postgrowth Digital Futures<https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/postgrowth-digital-futures>, Bristol University Press

Taffel, S. (2025) Degrowth and Digital Culture<https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111316857-045/html>, in DeGruyter Handbook of Digtial Cultures

Taffel, S. (2024) Fantasies of dematerialization: (Un)sustainable growth and digital capitalism<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003441311-3/fantasies-dematerialization-sy-taffel>. In Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls.




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