[ecrea] Critical Arts "Under Fire" section. Now on Free Access

*/Critical Arts: /*/south-north cultural and media studies /

*_CALL for UNDER FIRE _**_short articles_*

The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent 
conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern 
Africa, and ongoing civil wars, refugee migrations on unprecedented 
scales and human rights abuses in a variety of other regions across the 
world. As a means to engage these developments, /Critical Arts 
/instituted a new Section, “Under Fire”in 2002. This is in keeping with 
its interpretation of cultural studies as a form of praxis, of 
experience, and of strategic intervention, in which individuals find 
themselves caught up in broader process over which they may have little 
or no control. The aim of this section is to invite short (anything up 
to 2000 words) theorised autobiographies, authoethnographies, and 
dramatic narratives of what it is like living under fire, of the 
relevance of cultural studies in such circumstances, and how it could be 
deployed to challenge such conditions. The original Call emanated from a 
number of unsolicited submissions we had been receiving from colleagues 
in Palestine and Zimbabwe, letters from friends in Israel, and 
marginalised groups in South Africa, and from academics whose research 
and work is pilloried by hostile authorities. The exigencies of being 
under fire make it hard to find the discursive space in which 
participants can catch enough breath to speak the truths of their own 
participation:

·When does a culture of resistance lose focus, becoming a culture of 
violence as an end in itself?

·At what point can one recognize when legitimate defence against 
violence has suddenly become indistinguishable from the Warsaw Ghetto?

·How can we turn war-talk into justice-talk, without provoking 
war-mongers to renewed efforts?

·In a world with a global view of even the most local eruption of 
violence, how can those under fire on opposite sides of the street, the 
valley, the river, the sand dune find enough space to escape the 
solidarities of occupation, of resistance, and develop a language of 
restitution, restoration, Reformation, in the face of corporate and 
state reaction?

·Closer to our own sites of research, when does academic managerialism 
and bureaucratisation of research become offensive, anti-humanist and 
self-destructive? The academic enterprise is under fire itself, as are 
many employed within it.

“Under Fire” offers such a space, and we do not expect to define what 
will make submissions acceptable or not. The object is for those who 
have had enough, to speak in the ways they believe those across the camp 
or the corridormight attend to them. The “Under Fire” submissions should 
reflect not just the pressures of a personal involvement within a 
context of oppression, occupation, or resistance; it should carry a 
clear indication of just how this involvement tests the cultural studies 
tradition. In this “test” the writers’ experience candraw not only on 
the cultural studies method of examining texts in relation to contexts, 
but should also use the writer’s own context as the critical touchstone 
for pushing the cultural studies envelope.

For more  see:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310041

*Some Recent Under Fire Postings:*

Njabulo Ndebele, They are Burning Memory 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2017.1318158

Chris Merrett, Marx, Labour and the Academy 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2013.784389

Brenden Gray, Neoliberalising Higher Education 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560046.2016.1269237

*And the essay that started the section in 2002*:

Lena Jayyusi, Letters from the Palestinian Ghetto, 8-13 March 2002 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310051

*_Submission Guidelines:_*

Submissions should be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts at 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcrc (in cases where internet 
connectivity is not conducive to a ScholarOne submission, we will still 
accept manuscripts submitted via email to the Critical Arts office. Send 
to David Nothling at (criticalarts /at/ ukzn.ac.za) 
<mailto:(criticalarts /at/ ukzn.ac.za)> and/or editor-in-chief, Keyan 
Tomaselli, at (tomasell /at/ ukzn.ac.za) <mailto:(tomasell /at/ ukzn.ac.za)>). 
Submissions should be original works not simultaneously submitted 
elsewhere, if up to 2000 words in length including any references. 
Referencing should be done according to the Chicago manual of style (see 
attachment).

*_Critical Arts URLs:_*

Author Services:

http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/

Critical Arts Home Page:

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrc20

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