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> Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
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> Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change * The University of
> Manchester * Oxford Road * Manchester M13 9PL * United Kingdom
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> Tel: +44 (0)161 275 8985 * Fax: +44 (0)161 275 8986 *
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> "Culture and Social Change: Disciplinary Exchanges"
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> 11-13 July 2005
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> A conference hosted by
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> ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)
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> to be held at
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> Hulme Hall
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> The University of Manchester, UK
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> Keynote Speakers:
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> Craig Calhoun (Sociology, New York University)
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> Veena Das (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)
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> Conference Outline
> Numerous accounts of contemporary epochal change now circulate in
> popular and academic thinking: globalization; de-traditionalization;
> individualization; neo-liberalism; the Third Way. Claims such as these,
> with their bold arguments about the novelty and dramatic significance of
> emerging currents post huge challenges for our understanding of social
> change. We need to think critically and reflexively about how our own
> intellectual foundations, based in disciplinary divides constructed in the
> early modern period, may prove inadequate to understand such changes. We
> need to consider the limits of findings produced by research methods, and
> what kinds of empirical investigation allow us to assess and develop our
> awareness of change.
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> The issue of culture is central here. All epochal theories place
> great significance on cultural change in one way or another. Yet the
> place of culture differs radically. For those influenced by the cultural
> turn, all relationships are inflected by, and defined by, cultural
> processes. In other accounts, cultural change is a concomitant of other
> kinds of social, economic, or political changes, with the implication that
> culture itself is a more autonomous field. Cultural issues are also
> important in forcing us to reflect on the contributions of different
> disciplines to understanding social change. Many of the earliest and most
> influential accounts of change have been developed by writers within media
> and cultural studies, but these are often not translated into other
> academic disciplines. More established disciplines, such as anthropology,
> geography, history, and sociology also have extensive interests in
> 'culture', which cross cut but which, despite a certain common vocabulary,
> do not speak directly to each other. The aim of this conference is to
> encourage inter-disciplinary exchanges between researchers in
> anthropology, history, geography, sociology and management sciences to
> develop a greater dialogue about possible ways of understanding culture
> and social change, and to investigate the potential for systematic
> inter-disciplinary research.
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> The conference will appeal to those interested in questions such as:
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> * What has the impact of the 'cultural turn' been on
> different academic disciplines, and has the 'cultural turn' now reached
> its limit?
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> * What do different disciplines understand by culture,
> and is there convergence between different disciplinary frameworks?
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> * What are the contemporary prospects for media and
> cultural studies, and more established disciplines?
> * How are different conceptions of culture implicated
> in theories of social change?
> * How best can empirical research inform debates on
> culture and social change?
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> This conference will be hosted by the new Centre for Research in
> Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), a new ESRC funded research centre whose
> mission it is to develop and execute a structured programme of empirical
> research to allow us to develop and elaborate our understanding of
> socio-cultural change. This, our first annual conference will comprise a
> series of key note sessions exploring these issues, as well as papers in a
> series of themes focused to allow us to examine the different perspectives
> of academic disciplines on culture and social change. Leading
> anthropologists, historians, geographers, management scientists, and
> sociologists will talk about ways of conceiving culture within their
> disciplines. A particular feature will be a plenary roundtable where they
> debate different conceptions of culture in their disciplines with each
> other.
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> An invitation for papers
> Papers are invited in any area which explores the themes discussed
> above. Where appropriate, papers will be streamed into four specific
> research fields especially pertinent to debates about socio-cultural
> change, and because of their interdisciplinary range. These are:-
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> 1) Cultural Economy If the term cultural economy
> implies some kind of break with earlier forms of analysis, the field of
> cultural economy includes diverse methods and objects which we aim to
> engage and debate by inviting papers on key issues which include: the
> reconfiguratation of the economy in a financialised and globalised world;
> new management practices in public and private sectors; and inequalities
> around new forms of production and consumption including the implications
> for the power elite. (Theme contact: Professor Karel Williams,
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , tel:
> +44 (0)161 275 8987).
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> 2) Changing Media Cultures and Economies. Grand
> claims about the nature and pace of change are perhaps nowhere more
> evident than in current theories about the putative epochal transition
> to a knowledge economy, a network society or a global cultural economy.
> Current theories of societal change place information and communication
> technologies at the heart of such change but their precise role in
> bringing about change is often exaggerated and rarely substantiated with
> empirical evidence. The polarities and rifts between, broadly political
> economy and culturalist perspectives on questions of media and social
> change have limited the potential of interdisciplinary dialogues. How can
> we bring into closer and more productive dialogue those working on media
> economies and media cultures? We invite papers on three intersecting
> themes a) the impact of media convergence on media markets b) the
> implications of changing configurations of media audiences for the
> structure and organisation of social and political life and c) the
> consequences of current media and communications policies for social
> inclusion and cohesion, and new forms of political and cultural
> identification. (Theme contact: Dr Marie Gillespie,
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> 3) Cultural Governance and Citizenship. The increasing
> significance of neo-liberal forms of governance has highlighted the
> importance and distinctive nature of the role played by culture in
> neo-liberal forms of governance. What has been the history of relations
> between culture, liberal government and varied regimes of citizenship?
> What bearing does this have in contemporary deployments of culture in both
> formal policy domains and everyday forms of social regulation? What light
> do the perspectives of historians, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural
> geographers and cultural studies academics throw on these questions?
> (Theme contact: Professor Tony Bennett, [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , tel: +44 (0)1908 654431).
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> 4) Changing Cultural Values and Politics It is argued
> that cultural values appear more unstable, fractured and complex than
> previously, leading to a greater fluidity of meaning and effects, so that
> social categories, such as class, ethnicity or gender, do not relate
> directly to personal cultural identity. However, 'individualisation' and
> 'de-traditionalisation' theories often rely limited historical
> understandings of the nature of cultural values in the past, superficial
> survey evidence, and pay inadequate attention to the way that stabilities
> and continuities can be detected even where claims to change are strong.
> We are also keen to explore the gaps between 'expert' accounts of change
> and lay beliefs in a variety of global locations. Accordingly, we welcome
> papers offering new and distinctive approaches to this issue from
> researchers in anthropology, history, sociology and geography, as well as
> other relevant disciplines. (Theme contact: Professor Mike Savage,
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , tel:
> +44 (0)161 275 8987).
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> In addition, we also plan an open a theme on Culture and Social
> Change: disciplinary exchanges.
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> Abstracts/full papers
> Any researcher with interests in any of these fields is encouraged
> to submit a paper to any one of these themes. Abstracts, of up to 200
> words, should be submitted to [log in to unmask] by 28 Feburary 2005,
> with an indication of which theme it is particularly relevant to. You
> will be informed by the end of March if your paper has been accepted.
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> Full papers to be submitted by 23 June 2005 for inclusion on
> conference CD. For further details on the submission of papers, please
> contact:
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> Fiona Wilson (Centre
> Administrator)
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> tel: +44 (0)161 275 8990
> fax: +44 (0)161 275 8986
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> Abstracts will be available to view before the conference on the
> CRESC website (http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/ <http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/>
> ). A CD of papers will be given to delegates at the conference, and will
> be made available after the conference on the CRESC website.
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> Organisation
> The conference will run across three days in Manchester. The
> residential conference fee includes bed and breakfast accommodation as
> well as morning and afternoon break refreshments and lunches. The
> non-residential fee includes morning and afternoon break refreshments and
> lunches. Evening meals are not included in the conference fee. Please
> ensure you book an evening meal in addition, if required.
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> Booking form available to download at
> http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/events/july04/bookingform.htm
> <http://www.cresc.man.ac.uk/events/july04/bookingform.htm> or email
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