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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Cultures of Militarization and the Military-Cultural Complex
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
Theme Issue, Spring 2010
ed. Jody Berland and Blake Fitzpatrick
For this special issue we seek papers that address cultures of 
militarization or that
raise questions concerning the ubiquity of militarization as a 
presence woven into
the fabric of civic culture. We also open the possibility of holding the terms
culture and militarization apart, in order to investigate the ways a 
militarized
presence is normalized or critiqued in private, public and national narratives.
Government policy, public support and resistance to militarism are 
urgent matters
during a time of war. Representation plays a key role at this time 
because it is
employed to shape public support and to aid in the manufacture of information,
disinformation and the technological spectacles of contemporary conflict. What
role is left for human agency in a technologically driven and rationalized
militarization of culture that controls access to military sites and 
relegates public
knowledge and participation to the side-lines of what has been called 
the military
industrial complex? What does it mean to rewrite relations of power 
in terms of a
new military - cultural complex? How might such a complex redraw the temporal
and environmental modalities of modern conflict? How can such 
critical rewriting
resist the equation of infinite militarized perpetuation with 
normalization, and
attend to affective forms of public response that have been opened or closed by
cultures of militarization?
We invite papers that address the following suggested (but not 
limiting) topics:
- Public access, cultural invisibility and contested sites of militarization
- Tim Horton's in Afghanistan: troops in conflict and tropes of nationhood
- Militarization and Media: information, disinformation, modes of 
militarized response
and counter-response to conflict
- New communication technologies: time, digital reportage, soldier 
diarists and the
instantaneous battlefield
- Environments of militarism: space, toxicity and the ecological 
wastelands of war
- Normalizing Conflict: the popularization of military methods, 
discourses and vernaculars
- Research, Conflict and Conflicted Research: channels of exchange 
between the military
and the university
- Frontier Aesthetics: violence and special effects in the 
military-entertainment complex
Manuscripts are due September 1, 2009.
Please consult www.yorku.ca/topia for submission guidelines.
Please send queries and proposals to (topia /at/ yorku.ca).


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