[alt-media-res] Fw: [knowledgelab] Fw: Invitation to Submit Papers to Critical Arts
zoe
zoe at esemplastic.net
Fri Jun 22 14:00:58 BST 2007
could be a home for some palestine stuff?
xx
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From: Anthony McCann
To: anarchist.academics at lists.mutualaid.org ; knowledgelab at lists.aktivix.org ; knowledgelab-ireland
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:03 PM
Subject: [knowledgelab] Fw: Invitation to Submit Papers to Critical Arts
Hi,
Scroll down to the last theme especially. This sounds like an opportunity for contributions ...
All the best,
Anthony
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From: "Vickerstaff, Rebecca" <Rebecca.Vickerstaff at TANDF.CO.UK>
To: MECCSA at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:46:45 AM
Subject: Invitation to Submit Papers to Critical Arts
Critical Arts
A Journal for South-North Cultural and Media Studies
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
CALL FOR ESSAYS
Theme Issue: UNDER FIRE
The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights abuses in a variety of other regions across
the world. As a means to engage these developments, Critical Arts instituted a new Section, “Under Fire”. This is in keeping with its interpretation of cultural studies as a form of praxis, of experience, and of strategic intervention, in which individuals find themselves caught up in broader process over which they may have little or
no control.
The aim of this section is to invite short theorised autobiographies, authoethnographies, and dramatic narratives
of what it is like living under fire, of the relevance of cultural studies in such circumstances, and how it could be
deployed to challenge such conditions. (Length: anything up to 2000 words.)
The original Call emanated from a number of unsolicited submissions we have been receiving from colleagues in
Palestine and Zimbabwe, letters from friends in Israel, and marginalised groups in South Africa, and from
academics whose research and work is pilloried by hostile authorities. The exigencies of being under fire make it
hard to find the discursive space in which participants can catch enough breath to speak the truths of their own
participation:
· When does a culture of resistance lose focus, becoming a culture of violence as an end in itself?
· At what point can one recognize when legitimate defence against violence has suddenly become
indistinguishable from the Warsaw Ghetto?
· How can we turn war-talk into justice-talk, without provoking war-mongers to renewed efforts?
· In a world with a global view of even the most local eruption of violence, how can those under fire on
opposite sides of the street, the valley, the river, or the sand dune find enough space to escape the
solidarities of occupation, of resistance, and develop a language of restitution, restoration, and
reformation, in the face of corporate and state reaction?
· Closer to our sites of research, when does academic managerialism, burocratization of research become
offensive, anti-humanist and self-destructive? The academic enterprise is under fire itself, as are many
employed within it.
“Under Fire” hopes to become such a space, and we do not expect to define what will make submissions
acceptable or not. The object is for those who have had enough, to speak in the ways they believe those across
the camp or the river might attend to them.
The “Under Fire” submissions should reflect not just the pressures of a personal involvement within a context of
oppression, occupation, or resistance; it should carry a clear indication of just how this involvement tests the
cultural studies tradition. In this “test” the writers’ experience must draw not only on the cultural studies
method of examining texts and contexts, but should also use the writer’s own context as the critical touchstone for
pushing the cultural studies envelope.
E-mail your narratives to: Keyan G Tomaselli, Editor at tomasell at nu.ac.za
For more information about submitting to the journal, please visit the Routledge homepage:
www.informaworld.com/rcrc
Early back copies are available at: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/
Critical Arts Projects: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccms/publications/criticalarts/criticalarts_default.asp
Subscriptions:
Write to Andrea Delport, Subscriptions, UNISA Press: delpoa at unisa.ac.za
Fax:+ 21-12-429-3449
Critical Arts is now published by Routledge in association with UNISA Press.
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