[ecrea] Special Issue Release: fusion, Issue 5

Issue 5 of fusion, an international open access online scholarly journal 
for the communication, creative industries, and media arts, is now live;



http://www.fusion-journal.com/issue/005-fusion-changing-patterns-and-critical-dialogues-new-uses-of-literacy/





Edited by Associate Professor Jane Mills (UNSW, Australia) and Dr Nasya 
Bahfen (Monash University)



This issue comprises papers from the New Uses of Literacy Symposium 
initiated by the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) and 
staged by the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New 
South Wales, and other specially commissioned contributions. The 
symposium theme emerged from ongoing local and international debates 
about the different approaches to ‘literacy’ in contemporary Cultural 
Studies. According to Stuart Hall, “there would have been no Cultural 
Studies” were it not for Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy: Aspects 
of Working Class Life (1957). The importance of literacies as a topic 
reflects Graeme Turner’s concern that the research projects of many 
students (and many academics, we may add) “are too often reduced to 
their topic rather than situated with the broadest possible relation to 
a body of ideas, concepts and approaches” (What's Become of Cultural 
Studies? 2012). This issue of fusion asked contributors to return to 
Hoggart’s seminal te
xt to (re)consider current scholarship in the intersecting disciplines 
of Literacy Studies and Cultural Studies, and other interrelated fields 
of research including Media Studies, Communication Studies, Screen 
Studies, and the Creative Industries.





Issue 6 – The Rise and Fall of Social Housing: future directions

Deadline for submissions: 30 January, 2015

Publication date: 30 April, 2015

Guest editors: Dr. Ursa Komac and Dr. Milica Muminovic, University of 
Canberra, Australia.


Not until the rise of modern industrial city in the mid-nineteenth 
century did the problem of housing become a serious issue for planners, 
architects, social reformers and state officials. With the divide 
between the city and country, the rise of the Metropolis and its 
subsequent transmutation into the Megalopolis put pressure on 
governmental agencies to establish housing policies to accommodate 
unprecedented urban migrations, and residual regional populations. The 
ideals underpinning early modernist architects’ concern with social 
housing projects and its relationship with the city were met with 
obstacles or ended up as a failure when transformed into reality. With 
the advent of globalization, the fluidity of capital investment and mass 
migration compromised the project of social housing together with its 
urbanity. The neo-liberal political order is unable to meet the crisis 
that is taking place in the margin of every megalopolis around the 
world. The essential role of soci
al housing in the city keeps haunting architects, planners, governments 
and communities. In this situation, the relationship between the city, 
urbanity, social housing and quality of life are becoming fundamental 
issues for an increasing number of professions in the 21st century.

We invite architects, urban and regional planners, public intellectuals, 
cultural critics, economists, political philosophers, artists, 
sociologists, anthropologists, and public administrators to critically 
re-visit the theoretical-historical question of social housing and its 
role in contemporary urban and regional development.

Suggested themes for papers include, but are not exclusive to:
Relationships between housing and: typology, morphology, history, public 
life, public space, everyday ordinary space, urbanity, public-private, 
dwelling, sustainability, ethics, and place identity.





Dr Andrew Hickey, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer (Communications)
School of Arts and Communications
Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba | Queensland | 4350 | Australia
Ph: +61 7 4631 2337 | Fax: +61 7 4631 2828 |
Email: (Andrew.Hickey /at/ usq.edu.au)<mailto:(XXXXXXX /at/ usq.edu.au)>

- President, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia



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