FYI,


> >                               _Space & Culture_
> >                                       - the journal
> >
> >The hallmark of the most exciting developments in contemporary social theory
> >and research is that issues of space and culture are placed to the fore. The
> >distinction of _Space and Culture_ is its grounding in everyday life: the
> >habitual and the mundane practices that make up the material of contemporary
> >culture. _Space and Culture_ is a cross-disciplinary journal that fosters
> >the publication of reflections on a wide range of socio-spatial arenas such
> >as the home, architecture, urbanism and geopolitics. We encourage the
> >application of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural studies,
> >discourse analysis, and post-colonialism to research on sexuality, migrant
> >and diasporic identities, virtual identities and virtual citizenship. _Space
> >and Culture_ is unique in having the explicit mission of bringing cutting-
> >edge theory to the contexts and sites of social change.
> >
> >There is a hunger for writing that specifies the now overly-general ordering
> >concepts by which most journals are edited. There is a demand for conceptual
> >innovation that problematizes the fixity of the social science categories 
> >(such as identity, globalization, society, and state). There is a need for
> >journals which function as meeting places: informative communication media
> >for researchers struggling to work across discipline borders.
> >
> >We are not seeking applications of theory but rather work on the frontiers
> >of theoretical development which nonetheless retains an organic link to
> >everyday life and its positionality within its culture of origin.
> >
> >
> >Editors: R. Shields (Lancaster/Carleton)
> >        J. van Loon (Cardiff University of Wales/Tilburg) 
> >        I. Roderick (Monash University, Melbourne)
> >
> >
> >Call for Papers on Key Themes
> >
> >Flow as a new Paradigm - Issue 1:1 New theories, new objects of theory.
> >Apocalypse - Issue 1:2 The Collapse of Time and Space into a Void of 'The
> >End'.
> >Habitable Spaces - Issue 1:3 How are the Cruellest Spaces made inhabitable?
> >
> >
> >FLOW AS A NEW PARADIGM: the notion of 'flow', most widely known from the
> >work of Deleuze occurs repeatedly in social theory. Associated with a
> >paradigm shift within cultural studies and sociology from the analysis of
> >objects to processes, it is also linked by geographers to the notion of
> >'nomadism' and the breakdown of the fixity of boundaries and barriers. More
> >poignantly, it is the lived experience of the global mass migrations and
> >movements of refugees. In effect, the dominant metaphors for discussions of
> >sociality have swung from models of affinity to those of viscosity.
> >
> >APOCALYPSE: an important and unexplored cultural condition of social
> >spatialisation. Tying in with the current debates about New Medievalism 
> >(Brownlee et al. 1991), an issue is planned consisting of original
> >contributions to thinking the Apocalypse, beyond its rather restricted
> >conceptions as an element of the history of ideas and religious-
> >philosophical discourse. The Apocalypse is a space of conceptualisations
> >that emerge from information, communication, bio-genetic and nuclear
> >technologies and, as such, it is a principle factor inherent in the very
> >logic of modernisation. Phenomena such as ecological disasters, epidemics,
> >urban disorders and guerrilla warfare must be read alongside these
> >technological transformations. Of central importance in these
> >conceptualisations is the way in which 'the Apocalypse' signifies a mutual
> >collapse of time and space into a void indicating 'the end' (for example
> >dystopia). This returns to cultural practices of everyday life in a
> >multitude of forms: moral panics, crowd-anxieties, political apathy, hyper-
> >hedonistic consumption, public angst, lethargic cocooning, cybernetic
> >insomnia and domesticated terror. Suggested topics will include disorganized
> >spaces: violence, crime, riots, urban terrorism, ecological disasters as
> >well as more `everyday' (dis)orders such as fires, accidents, power-cuts and
> >epidemics.
> >
> >HABITABLE SPACES: How are the cruelest spaces made inhabitable? Ioan Davies'
> >_Writers in Prison_ and _Assemblage_ - Violence and Space Special Issue are
> >good starts but only a beginning. This issue reverses the current trend for
> >regulation and fixity so as to focus on movement and flow (to be treated in
> >the premier issue). That the social sciences have proved so adept at
> >describing social spaces as disciplinary should be telling. As the social
> >scientist unveils and reveals the coercive apparatus and the docility it
> >demands, this doubled gaze risks becoming a reinvigorated scopophilia. What
> >the social scientist cannot see is the under-class of practices that do not
> >contribute to the systematicity she or he seeks to describe. Even the
> >cruelest of spaces, we argue, be it the prison, classroom, office partition,
> >home, and so on, must be made inhabitable.
> >Double spaced submissions in Harvard format in three copies and IBM diskette
> >to the address below:
> >
> >Future Issues:
> >
> >       ¤ Cultural economy 
> >       ¤ Spatial practices of identification 
> >       ¤ Crowds and spatial formations of race 
> >       ¤ Spatial violence and violent spaces 
> >       ¤ Spatial pleasures 
> >       ¤ Viral spaces 
> >       ¤ A global orient
> >
> >Charter Subscriptions 
> >
> >$30Can/$25US/£15 per year by money order (3 issues per year) to:
> >
> >'Space & Culture'
> >Design, Space and Society Research Unit
> >Cartmel College
> >University of Lancaster
> >Lancaster LA1 4YL U.K.
> >Fax: +44 (01524) 594256
> >Tel: +44 (01524) 594193
> >
> >

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Kris Olds, Lecturer 
Centre for Urban Studies
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
Rodney Lodge, Grange Road
Bristol, BS8 4EA  ENGLAND
Tel:  44 (0)117 974 1117
Fax:  44 (0)117 973 7308
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