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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Youth Resistance Culture (abstract deadline:
20 January 2012 // article submission 20 June 2011):)

Dear Editors/Academics/Scholars

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Clive Kronenberg 


CRITICAL ARTS: CALL FOR PAPERS


CFP: Contemporary Youth Resistance Culture: Viability, 
Relevancy, and
Pragmatism

Theme Editor: Clive W. Kronenberg
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Mowbray Campus, 
Cape Town

In 2011 Chile saw its largest student mobilisation since the 
US-backed military coup that brought Pinochet to power in 
1973. Some 600,000 public and private school students 
declared a strike against the government, staging marches in 
all the main cities of the country. Meanwhile the Nigerian 
youth arguably face far greater troubles. In recent months 
the Niger Delta crude oil flow was disrupted by youths in 
protest against a multi-national oil company operating in 
the area. This well-known company - the target of sabotage 
attacks and protests for decades - has been operating 
onshore in Africa's most populous nation longer than any 
other foreign energy power. On the whole, however, the 
overwhelming majority of that country's citizens, some 158 
million people, continue live in unspeakable poverty and 
misery. Per capita GDP in the country is lower today than in 
1960 when independence was declared. Approximately 57 
percent of the population live on less than US$1 per day, 
whereas overall life expectancy is 49.5 years. When we turn 
our attention further north, the gargantuan challenges made 
against the ruling establishments of Tunisia, Egypt, and 
Libya, can never be ignored. Here, too, we found the youth 
being integral to the popular uprisings against traditional, 
undemocratic ruling systems. While the outcomes of these 
developments remain open to conjecture, the youth of 
England, likewise, found themselves engaged in a major 
skirmish against the powers of the day. Barely a few weeks 
prior to this, hundreds of thousands of young people in 
Portugal, Spain, and especially Greece, joined groups 
hostile to the austerity measures inaugurated to 'save' the 
capitalist economies from total ruin. The coming to power of 
America's first ever black president (perceived by many as a 
'victim of oppression', and thus, a 'messenger of hope') has 
hardly assured the tranquillity and happiness of those 
people, let alone the young. The latter part of 2011 
witnessed the intensification of wars on foreign soil, 
accompanied by the mobilisation of mass rallies and marches 
against drastic cuts in social spending. Against this 
backdrop, the rise of America's disfavoured youths against 
the status quo appears to loom larger and larger. On home 
soil, South African public students (most of whom lack basic 
skills in reading, writing, and calculating) have vented 
their anger and frustration mainly against education 
authorities, in their endeavour to secure basic teaching 
amenities, such as libraries, in their schools. The fact 
that some 40% of young people in this country are currently 
redundant, immediately evokes memories of the country's 
prolonged period of struggle against unutterable human 
affliction, marked by the dominant presence and 
participation during the 1970s to the 1980s of non other 
than the youth themselves.

Whilst there certainly are many other situations that can 
attest to heightened levels of rebelliousness and militancy 
amongst youths from all over the world today, the 
distressing fact is that in most, if not all such cases, 
this 'culture of contestation' has by and large been 
unrewarding, as a result of deepened repression and 
deception on the part of existing power systems, illusory 
decorative changes, or the capitulation or betrayal of those 
in the forefront of struggle, while the root sources of the 
present order have remained largely uncontaminated.

This Call for Papers is concerned predominantly, though not 
exclusively, with the theoretical substructures that inform 
and underpin this prevailing universal 'youth resistance 
culture'. The fact that youths from different parts of the 
world, on arguably all continents, and almost 
simultaneously, find themselves entangled in their own, 
idiosyncratic 'mode of contestation', does suggest the 
presence of a common set of problems and aspirations, one 
which traverses human, social, cultural, political, and 
territorial boundaries. Accordingly, the call is made on 
writers, teachers, analysts, scholars, researchers, and 
commentators, to submit transdisciplinary, erudite, bold 
perspectives that explore and dissect the conjectural 
frameworks of this modern, yet by no means rare combative 
cultural trend amongst the world's younger generations. In 
particular, submissions are called for that critically 
evaluate the significance, worthiness, promise, or potential 
impact, of these agendas. Of special import, then, is the 
opportunity for contributors to evaluate not merely the 
substance, but the viability, relevancy, or pragmatism, of 
this 'critical culture' that distinguishes young people's 
lives in the current epoch of human existence. Insofar as 
contributors are at liberty to focus on specific cases in 
point, perspectives on the global situation, and thus the 
broader context of such paradigms, would especially be 
appreciated.

As a special edition of Critical Arts, full-length academic 
papers are limited to 5000 words, while specialist 
commentaries, not exceeding 2000 words, are also welcome.

Deadlines for Abstracts (200 words): 20 January 2012

Deadline for Submissions: 20 June 2012

Submissions, including Abstract, Biographical Note, Key 
Words, End Notes, and References, in MS Word Format, to be 
sent via email to The Guest Editor: Critical Arts: Dr Clive 
W. Kronenberg ([log in to unmask]); Research Fellow: 
Critical Thinking Group, Education & Social Sciences 
Faculty, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Mowbray 
Campus, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa

Guidelines for Authors: Refer to Critical Arts homepage, 
below. Critical Arts uses the Chicago manual of style

Critical Artshomepage:
http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Ite
mid=87


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