[ecrea] CFP: Cultural Policy Studies Division

Call for Papers: Cultural Policy Studies Division
Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference

Culture Matters
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA
March 28 ­ April 1, 2012

NOTE: The deadline for this and all CSA panels and papers is fast
approaching.  Please contact me ASAP with your abstracts or questions.


In its fourth year as a division of the Cultural Studies Association, the
Cultural Policy Studies Division welcomes a wide range of papers addressing
the nexus between culture and policy.  Such topics might include (but are
not limited to):

- Cultural exception (GATT to WTO)
- Cultural citizenship
- Immigration policies
- Indigenous rights, minority rights, women's rights, GLBTQ rights
- Abortion and family planning
- Welfare, social, and economic policy
- Labor unions and collective bargaining
- Criminal and capital punishment; the penal system
- Primitive accumulation and privatization
- The US Tea Party movement
- UnCut movement in US/UK
- International trade and economic policy
- Community arts and funding
- The current attacks on public education
- The struggle over the future of Higher Education
- Arts education
- Copyright and intellectual property vs. fair use and the public domain
- Google - search bubbles, FTC policy, Author's guild lawsuits, etc.
- Free culture movement, creative commons
- Culture jamming, piracy, and other forms of illegal defiance
- Civil disobedience, direct action, and cultural perceptions
- Democratization of culture/cultural democratization
- The democratic paradox (cf. Mouffe)
- Anarchism and Culture
- Other alternative political systems
- Global civil society
- Cultural industries policy (creative industries)
- National identity and globalization
- Public space, policy, and culture
- Transportation policy, automobility- car culture vs. bikes, trains, etc.
- Place and culture
- Terror and/as cultural policy

In addition, the following would also be appreciated, either in themselves
or as emphases in examinations of the above:

- papers that examine policy and law at a more dialectical, meta
level--policy and law AS expressions of culture rather than just regulators,
shapers of culture. (e.g. Austerity or Debt as cultural frameworks.)
- papers that examine how cultural processes (e.g. Media, social movements,
public protests, political parties) help to frame, challenge, and legitimate
policy and law. (i.e. Hegemonic struggles over law/policy).
- papers that examine the disconnect between stated law, policy and its
effects on the ground - i.e. legal realism, CLS meets "the practice of
everyday life."


Please submit via e-mail an abstract (<  500 words), including name,
department, title, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address by Oct. 1st
to Sean Johnson Andrews<(sean.johnson.andrews /at/ gmail.com)>. If you are
interested in proposing an entire panel with other participants, please also
contact the chair with your panel proposal and contact info for all
participants.




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