CFP:
at the 5th International Conference
Language Communication Culture
Post-industrial and infotainment' Cultural Studies: Questions,
Possibilities and Positions for Education
Castelo Branco, Portugal, 28-30 November 2007
conference website http.//lcc2007.ese.ipcb.pt
We are welcoming 20-minute papers for this themed session inside the LCC
2007:
Cultural Studies, Industrial and Post-Industrial Societies
Session organizer: Maria Joćo Ramos, Faculty of Letters, University of
Lisbon / School of Technology and Management, Beja Polytechnic
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The idea that we are at the crossroads between an industrial society and a
post-industrial one is persistently conveyed in different ways, but
primarily in line with the dominant global capitalist ideology.
'Post-industrial society' theories pose several difficulties to the
understanding of the world we live in. In both hard and soft industrial
societies, production is not organised to meet social needs but for
competitive advantage. Advanced societies, characterised by unprecedented
labour-saving profit maximisation, may be best described not as
post-industrial, but as the climax of industrial capitalism, a point made by
Raymond Williams in the 1980s.
Cultural Studies being "a kind of intellectual analysis which want[s] to
change the actual developments of society", papers are invited which deal
with the following or related topics:
- Critiques of post-industrial / information society theories;
- Representations of post-industrial / information(al) / knowledge
society in the political, media, and pedagogic discourses;
- Representations of industrial societies as 'the past' in the
tourism / heritage 'industries'.
Deadlines:
Papers/Abstract Submissions: June 15th
Authors Notification: June 30th
Early-bird registration online: July 15th
Full papers: September 30th
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