[ecrea] CFP: New Zealand Journal of Media Studies Special Issue - Technology in Aotearoa-New Zealand

>Apologies for cross-posting.  Please circulate the following to 
>those you think would be interested in contributing.
>
>New Zealand Journal of Media Studies Special Issue:
>Technology in Aotearoa-New Zealand
>Editors: Minette Hillyer and Geoff Stahl (Victoria University of Wellington)
>
>This special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Media Studies is 
>dedicated to exploring the role technology plays in constructing 
>narratives told of Aotearoa-New Zealand.
>
>Historically, technology exists as an interface and form of 
>interaction between place (real and imagined), the individual, and 
>the nation. In Aotearoa-New Zealand, this has played out in many 
>varied and complex ways. Technology holds a privileged place in many 
>narratives describing how New Zealanders imagine themselves. 
>Contemporary terms like 'DIY' and 'Kiwi ingenuity' reflect this 
>familiar story, in which New Zealand nationhood is typically figured 
>as a series of problem-solving encounters between technology and 
>landscape. Such a narrative can minimize the significance of 
>encounters between people(s) in this place, and conflate regional, 
>cultural, and historical variations in modes of production and ways 
>of being. Among the questions we might ask of the historical role of 
>technology in narratives of Aotearoa-New Zealand are: How well have 
>narratives of techno-nationalism in Aotearoa-New Zealand accounted 
>for the encounter between peoples in this place? How has technology 
>been used to narrate our historical relationships to place and to 
>one another, and how else might it do so? How, and where, do settler 
>and indigenous narratives figure in discourses of technology? Do 
>discourses of the 'creative industries' and the 'knowledge economy' 
>reflect a similar facility with the use and incorporation of 
>technology in the production of a national ethos and ethnos as our 
>previous, and apparently intimate relationship with, to take one 
>example, number 8 fencing wire? How do technology and its discourses 
>mediate or reflect configurations of power, race and ethnicity, 
>whakapapa, gender, or place?
>
>We welcome contributions on the role that technology plays, and has 
>played in mediating a range of identities and discourses, as well as 
>symbolic and political economies in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
>
>Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due on November 30th.
>
>Final drafts of no more than 6000 words to be submitted for review 
>on March 1st, 2011.  Inclusion of images and audio clips are 
>encouraged.  Intended publication date is July 1st, 2011.
>
>Please send your abstracts to both editors:
>Geoff Stahl: (geoff.stahl /at/ vuw.ac.nz)
>Minette Hillyer: (minette.hillyer /at/ vuw.ac.nz)
>
>Best regards,
>Geoff Stahl
>
>....................................................................................
>Dr. Geoff Stahl
>Lecturer, Media Studies
>81 Fairlie Terrace, Room 102
>Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600
>Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand
>Phone: +64 4 463 5233 (ext. 7472)
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>

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