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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">All the best,</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>Anthony<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Forwarded Message ----<BR>From: "Vickerstaff, Rebecca" <Rebecca.Vickerstaff@TANDF.CO.UK><BR>To: MECCSA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<BR>Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:46:45 AM<BR>Subject: Invitation to Submit Papers to Critical Arts<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><SPAN class=982154010-22062007>C</SPAN>ritical <SPAN class=982154010-22062007>A</SPAN>rts</STRONG><SPAN class=982154010-22062007> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=2><SPAN class=982154010-22062007></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>A Journal for South-North Cultural and Media Studies</STRONG></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>ENOUGH IS ENOUGH</STRONG></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>CALL FOR ESSAYS</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Theme Issue: </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>UNDER FIRE</FONT></STRONG></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and </FONT><FONT size=2>some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights abuses in a variety of other regions across </FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>the world. As a means to engage these developments, Critical Arts instituted a new Section, “Under Fire”. This is </FONT><FONT size=2>in keeping with its interpretation of cultural studies as a form of praxis, of experience, and of strategic </FONT><FONT size=2>intervention, in which individuals find themselves caught up in broader process over which they may have little or </FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>no control. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>The aim of this section is to invite short theorised autobiographies, authoethnographies, and dramatic narratives </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>of what it is like living under fire, of the relevance of cultural studies in such circumstances, and how it could be </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>deployed to challenge such conditions. (Length: anything up to 2000 words.) </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>The original Call emanated from a number of unsolicited submissions we have been receiving from colleagues in </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Palestine and Zimbabwe, letters from friends in Israel, and marginalised groups in South Africa, and from </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>academics whose research and work is pilloried by hostile authorities. The exigencies of being under fire make it </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>hard to find the discursive space in which participants can catch enough breath to speak the truths of their own </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>participation: </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>· When does a culture of resistance lose focus, becoming a culture of violence as an end in itself? </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>· At what point can one recognize when legitimate defence against violence has suddenly become </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>indistinguishable from the Warsaw Ghetto? </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>· How can we turn war-talk into justice-talk, without provoking war-mongers to renewed efforts? </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>· In a world with a global view of even the most local eruption of violence, how can those under fire on </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>opposite sides of the street, the valley, the river, or the sand dune find enough space to escape the </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>solidarities of occupation, of resistance, and develop a language of restitution, restoration, and </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>reformation, in the face of corporate and state reaction? </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>· Closer to our sites of research, when does academic managerialism, burocratization of research become </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>offensive, anti-humanist and self-destructive? The academic enterprise is under fire itself, as are many </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>employed within it. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>“Under Fire” hopes to become such a space, and we do not expect to define what will make submissions </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>acceptable or not. The object is for those who have had enough, to speak in the ways they believe those across </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>the camp or the river might attend to them. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>The “Under Fire” submissions should reflect not just the pressures of a personal involvement within a context of </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>oppression, occupation, or resistance; it should carry a clear indication of just how this involvement tests the </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>cultural studies tradition. In this “test” the writers’ experience must draw not only on the cultural studies </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>method of examining texts and contexts, but should also use the writer’s own context as the critical touchstone for </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>pushing the cultural studies envelope. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>E-mail your narratives to: Keyan G Tomaselli, Editor at <A href="mailto:tomasell@nu.ac.za" target=_blank rel=nofollow>tomasell@nu.ac.za</A></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>For more information about submitting to the journal, please visit the Routledge homepage:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Early back copies are available at: <A href="http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/</A></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Critical Arts Projects: <A href="http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccms/publications/criticalarts/criticalarts_default.asp" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccms/publications/criticalarts/criticalarts_default.asp</A></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Subscriptions:</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Write to Andrea Delport, Subscriptions, UNISA Press: delpoa@unisa.ac.za</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Critical Arts is now published by Routledge in association with UNISA Press.</FONT></P></DIV>
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