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>Everyday Transformations
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>The Twenty-First Century Quotidian
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>Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia,
>Perth / Fremantle, 9-11 December 2004
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>Call for Papers
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>New technologies, increasing work pressures, changing gender roles and 
>family structures, increasing flows of refugees and asylum seekers, 
>concerns about security, environmental risks, the escalating speed and 
>complexity of social transactions - everyday life is today a terrain of 
>rapid and unsettling change. Yet it retains associations also with 
>pattern, order, routine - the familiarity of a favourite soap opera or 
>talk show, the ordinary pleasures and irritations of shopping, cooking, 
>negotiating traffic, managing domestic life.
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>How should cultural studies address questions of everyday life in the 
>twenty-first century? The field can claim a rich tradition of work in the 
>area, from ethnographies of street subcultures and shopping centres to 
>writing on television and popular magazines. But everyday life has been 
>transformed in significant ways since the time of many of the founding 
>contributions. What remains relevant today in the study of everyday life? 
>To what extent do we need new concepts and categories?
>Transformations have also occurred in cultural studies' motivations for 
>engaging with everyday life. The everyday is a major point of intersection 
>for many of its intellectual tributaries, including British cultural 
>studies, feminism, semiotics, European surrealism, situationism, 
>psychoanalysis and ethnomethodology. Yet the context for all of these has 
>been affected by major shifts in the location of cultural studies, the 
>nature and priorities of higher education, by the increasing market 
>orientation of mainstream institutions and by conservative attempts to lay 
>claim to the 'ordinary' and 'mainstream'. What do we seek now in engaging 
>with the everyday? What understanding of this engagement is most 
>appropriate for the times?
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>Possible sessions/themes:
>& New technologies                      & Speed and time
>& Suburbia                      & Everyday sexualities
>& Television                    & Collections and archives
>& Food                          & Popular media
>& Magazine journalism           & Cultural geographies
>& Everyday spirituality         & Sport
>& Ordinariness                  & Music
>& Shopping                      & Tourism
>& Civility and manners          & Documentary
>& Creativity                    & Sustainability
>& Homes and gardens             & The apocalyptic and the everyday
>& Risk and stress                       & Dance
>& Globalisation                 & Political activism in everyday life
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>Abstracts of no more than 250 words for single papers, or suggestions for 
>panel sessions, should be sent to:
>Mark Gibson - (mgibson /at/ central.murdoch.edu.au)
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>or :    School of Media, Communication and Culture
>         Murdoch University
>         South St, Murdoch
>         WA 6150
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>Panel proposals are particularly welcome.
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>Refereed Publication Option: As an innovation on past CSAA conferences, 
>'Everyday Transformations' will also be offering the option of refereed 
>publication in electronic conference proceedings. To be considered for 
>this stream, full papers must be received by 27 August 2004.
>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 July 2004
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>--
>
>Dr Mark Gibson
>Lecturer, Cultural Studies
>School of Media Communication and Culture
>Murdoch University
>Western Australia 6150
>
>Editor, Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10304312.html

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