[eccr] announcement and cfp: MEDIA and CULTURAL POLITICS

>New for the start of 2005, the international journal of Media and Cultural 
>Politics is committed to analyzing the politics of communications and 
>cultural processes. It addresses cultural politics in their local, 
>international and global dimensions, recognizing equally the importance of 
>issues defined by their specific cultural geography and those which run 
>across cultures and nations. The content focus will be critical, in-depth 
>analysis and engaged research of the intersections of sociology, politics, 
>cultural studies and media studies with the aim of keeping academic 
>analysis in dialogue with the practical world of communications, culture 
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>MCP aims to:
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>·        foster writing which seriously engages the politics of culture
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>·        focus on the nexus of communications, culture and politics
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>·        combine a sharp sense of topicality with quality peer-refereed 
>academic research
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>·        respond rapidly to developing events
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>·        make space for new and marginalized voices and issues, worldwide
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>·        balance metropolitan and regionalist interests
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>·        eschew partisanship and offer conflicting opinion
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>·        combine writing by academics with work by practitioners, 
>activists and artists
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>·        publish papers bridging the gap between theoretical & abstract 
>knowledge and cultural & social practice
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>·        foster debate and dialogue through opinion sections, web forums 
>and special events
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>·        address a wide readership in the social sciences, arts and humanities
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>Special themes of opening editions include:
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>Infantilizing culture: the collapse of media content? Could it really be 
>that 'elitist' cultural pessimists of the twentieth century (like Adorno 
>and Eliot) were embarrassingly accurate about the degradation inflicted on 
>culture by media producers? Should we evolve social policies to treat some 
>media output like cigarettes and junk food? Can local media systems 
>resist? What are the implications for future political engagement when 
>media content is at once youth-focused, consumerist, and escapist? Is it 
>elitist and prejudiced to ask questions like these about quality?
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>The death of the intellectual: can Beckham replace Sartre? Is the 
>intellectual a historical phenomenon like the troubadour or the 
>condottiere - or a vital cultural resource in the consumer world? What 
>associations exist between intellectual labour and the West's domination 
>of material resources and intellectual property? Will the West hear 
>intellectuals from the rest of the world? Is there an intellectual 
>response function to the newest 'Pax' Americana? Is there an intellectual 
>common ground for Islam, Christianity and secularism? Why are the British 
>as embarrassed by intellectuals as the French are by their talent for football?
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>'In here and out there' - the media, the centre and the regions How do the 
>media define 'provinces' and 'regions', the 'centre' and the 'periphery'? 
>How do the media drive the interests and values of some locations and 
>suppress those from elsewhere? Is metrocentrism a major form of 
>parochialism of developed media societies?  What is the collective 
>geographical subject of news producers, and who is defined through 
>otherness? What are the demographics of inclusion and exclusion, and how 
>do geographical identities relate to ethnicity, gender and class? How do 
>national metrocentrisms map on to international media coverage, not least 
>of the new category, 'asylum seeker'?
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>Getting past 'post-feminism': the spectacle of the female body is as never 
>before a standard component of the economies of tv, cinema, and the web, 
>with even pre-teens now the target of legal as well as criminal 
>image-producers across several media. What is the political meaning of 
>these developments? In what ways may we comprehend alternative responses 
>to female spectacle - for example, within some domains of Islam? Does the 
>growth of spectacle of the male body 'equalize' the politics of the image 
>or does it only make it easier to oppress women? Has the reach of 
>techno-economic power made progressive sexual politics irrelevant?
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>The media and the end of history - a view from several continents: if 
>political action is based on historical consciousness, how do the media 
>affect historical knowledge? Do they help to obliterate history? How much 
>resistance can there be to powerful media-borne versions of history? Does 
>the web liberate individuals from institutional oppression, or increase 
>Western/Anglophone ownership of history? Does computer technology exile 
>history by intensifying the present? Can communities reconstitute their 
>own histories through museums, social action and specialized media? If so, 
>will the result be history or heritage?
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>MCP is now inviting papers on topics that address the aims of the journal 
>and papers developing analysis on one of the special themes.
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>Editorial Board
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>managing editor
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>Katharine Sarikakis Coventry University, UK
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>editors
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>Neil Blain University of Paisley, UK
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>Karen Ross Coventry University, UK
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>commentaries and reviews editors
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>Carolyn Byerly University of Maryland, USA
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>John Sullivan Muhlenberg College, USA
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>Karin Wahl-Jorgensen University of Cardiff, UK
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>Founding Editorial Advisory Board
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>Alina Bernstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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>Craig Calhoun, New York University, USA
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>Stella Chinyere Okunna, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
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>Sean Cubitt, University of Waikato, New Zealand
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>Yvonne Galligan, Queens University Belfast, N Ireland
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>Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow, UK
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>Oliver Grau, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Germany
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>Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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>Lena Jayyusi, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
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>Ros Jennings, University of Gloucester, UK
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>Richard Keeble, University of Lincoln, UK
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>Eileen Meehan, Louisiana State University, USA
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>Noé Mendelle, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
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>Vincent Mosco, Queens University, Canada
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>Marian Myers, Georgia State University, USA
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>Virginia Nightingale, University of Western Sydney, Australia
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>Chris Paterson, University of San Fransisco, USA
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>Caroline Pauwels, Free University Brussels, Belgium
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>Lizette Rabe, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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>Marc Raboy, University of Montreal, Canada
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>Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University, Canada
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>David Rowe, University of Newcastle, Australia
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>Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK
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>Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
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>Anne S Walker, International Womens Tribune Centre
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>Gideon de Wet, RAU University, South Africa
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>Jan Worth, Northern Media School, UK
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>Published by Intellect 
>(<http://www.intellectbooks.com>www.intellectbooks.com)
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>Katharine Sarikakis BA(Hons) Mag Art PhD
>Communication Media and Culture
>Coventry School of Art and Design
>Coventry University
>Priory Street
>Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
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>Tel: +44.24.76887474
>Fax: +44.24.76887440
>Email: (k.sarikakis /at/ coventry.ac.uk)
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