[ecrea] Call for Papers for Critical Arts

>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>  CRITICAL ARTS:
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>A Journal for South-North Cultural and Media Studies
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>Theme Issue
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>  CULTURAL ECONOMY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA:
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>CONSUMPTION, COMMODITIES, AND MEDIA
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>The uneven and contradictory interconnections between apartheid and 
>capitalism in South Africa have long since been debated in political 
>economic terms from both liberal and Marxist perspectives, while 
>more recent critical analyses of South Africa's transition to 
>democracy and reintegration into the post-Cold War information 
>economy appear to problematize, within the context of a political 
>economy, the ongoing prevalence of uneven development, 
>transformations of capital, notions of non-racialism, and neoliberal 
>initiatives.
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>This call for papers seeks contributions that extend analyses of 
>South Africa's transforming market and media beyond the frameworks 
>of political economy into the realm of a strategically managed 
>cultural economy wherein an "intricate interplay of economic and 
>cultural norms across the institutional field of given markets, 
>industries and organizations" (McFall) has become 
>unquestionable.  Underlying this view is the assumption that the 
>emergence of new economic action and a new "rhetoric of the market" 
>in post-apartheid South African media and public debate is driven by 
>factors which are not always strictly economic.  That is, market and 
>media dynamics in post-apartheid South cannot readily be accounted 
>for in purely economic terms of supply and demand, political 
>economical terms relating to the ownership and control of their 
>producers, or neoclassical economic perceptions of human agency as 
>motivated solely by self-interest, utility, and actual material gain.
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>Recent changes in South Africa suggest that access to capital, 
>tangible goods and intangible resources (including language), 
>occupational skills and competencies cannot be reduced to the 
>workings of Western rationale.  We need to reassess how exchange and 
>value are being (re)conceptualized by members of business and 
>socio-cultural elites and by ordinary South Africans alike, to 
>establish what new social practices are being consolidated with the 
>advent of new options for ownership and consumption in South Africa, 
>and in so doing to gain insight into the ways African understandings 
>of the subject, empowerment, morality, management culture, society 
>and language shape and constrain South Africa's cultural economy.
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>We invite contributions focusing on the socio-cultural determinants, 
>and cultural and discursive practices, that constitute the "rhetoric 
>of the market" in post-apartheid South Africa, and which analyse how 
>this rhetoric appears to be reorganizing socio-cultural life among 
>today's complex heterogeneity of South Africans.
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>Contributions are invited from scholars in the fields of 
>anthropology, economics and economic history, social history, 
>sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, management studies, sociology, 
>urban studies, cultural history, the history of everyday life, 
>consumer culture, media studies, corporate communication, marketing 
>and advertising, and social semiotics.
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>Contributions are encouraged on, but by no means limited to, the 
>following themes:
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>    * Media debates on citizenship and/or consumption
>    * Consumer culture and patterns of consumption
>    * New organisational cultures
>    * Modes of materiality and identity
>    * New modes of capitalism, ownership and marketing
>    * Advertising and the construction of individual and social identities
>    * New forms of social membership (market-based and other)
>    * New forms of social mobility, social stratification and new 
> formations of class
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>Please submit a 300-word abstract by 31 August 2007 to:
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>Dr Sonja Narunsky-Laden
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>Theme Guest Editor
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>Department of Communication
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>University of Johannesburg
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>P O Box 524
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>Auckland Park 2006, South Africa.
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>Abstracts can also be e-mailed to: (sonjan /at/ uj.ac.za)
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>Submitting authors will be contacted by 30 October 2007 and a 
>selection will be commissioned for submission.  The final date for 
>submission will be 31 December 2007.  Please note that Critical Arts 
>is a peer reviewed journal.
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>For more information about submitting to the journal, please visit 
>the Routledge homepage:
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>Early back copies are available at: 
><http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/>http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/
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>Critical Arts Projects: 
><http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccms/publications/criticalarts/criticalarts_default.asp>http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccms/publications/criticalarts/criticalarts_default.asp
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>Subscriptions:
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>Write to Andrea Delport, Subscriptions, UNISA Press: 
><mailto:(delpoa /at/ unisa.ac.za)>(delpoa /at/ unisa.ac.za)
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>Fax:+ 21-12-429-3449
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>Critical Arts in now published by Routledge in association with UNISA Press.
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