[eccr] CFP: Southern Review - The Public, the people, the masses

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>Southern Review: communication, politics & culture
>Vol. 37 No 2 (August 2004)
>
>Theme issue:
>The public, the people, the masses
>
>Raymond Williams observed that 'there are in fact no masses; there are 
>only ways of seeing people as masses'.   In liberal democracies today 
>there is a proliferation of formulations that work to make visible and 
>instrumentalise that most elusive of figures. These formulations can be 
>observed in:
>&  technologies for measuring public opinion
>&  appeals to political legitimacy grounded in 'the people'
>&  public and media events designed to explore and express our shared identity
>&  routinely invoked distinctions between political 'elites' and 'ordinary 
>people'
>&  and references to the public and national interest as a 
>rationalisation, legitimation and justification of practices within and 
>across a range of sectors.
>Contrasting this with either former (and current) socialist states which 
>operationalise a different set of technologies also routinely employing 
>'the people' and 'the masses' as key tropes, or religiously based states 
>that appeal to 'the people' as members of the devoted, we can appreciate 
>the plurality of meanings buried in these distinctive phrases.  Although 
>in each case such formulations are constitutive rather than reflective, 
>this is no reason to dismiss as fictional abstractions the figures they 
>produce, since these serve to profoundly shape the contemporary terrain of 
>everyday politics.
>
>In this special issue, we call for contributions that explore:
>& the means by which such figures are produced in different social, 
>cultural and political situations
>& the ways they are linked to particular political relations and practices 
>of rule
>& the reasons for their continued persistence
>& and the histories within which their current manifestations may be 
>understood.
>
>Articles are welcome from any field of research that may make a 
>contribution to the journal's interdisciplinary focus on communication, 
>politics and culture.
>
>Papers should be approximately 4000-6000 words, and comply with Southern 
>Review style guide, available from the editors or visit 'Southern Review' 
>in the title index at http://www.informit.com.au/library/
>David Nolan     (d.nolan /at/ unimelb.edu.au)   Ph: 61 3 83443345
>Michael Dutton  (mrdutton /at/ unimelb.edu.au)   Ph: 61 3 83445268
>
>Final papers will be required by 31 March 2004.
>Southern Review is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on the 
>connections between communication and politics. Southern Review is 
>interested in communication and cultural technologies - their histories, 
>producers and audiences, policies and texts. Articles are welcomed which 
>connect these either to arenas of legislative or parliamentary politics, 
>or to broader negotiations of power.
>
>
>--
>Dr David Nolan
>Lecturer
>Media and Communications Program
>School of English and Cultural Studies
>University of Melbourne
>Parkville 3010
>
>Ph: (03) 8344 3345
>e-mail: (d.nolan /at/ unimelb.edu.au)

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