(with apologies for cross-posting)
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
CALL for UNDER FIRE ARTICLES
The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent
conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern
Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights abuses in a variety of
other regions across the world. As a means to engage these
developments, Critical Arts instituted a new Section, “Under Fire”.
This is in keeping with its interpretation of cultural studies as a
form of praxis, of experience, and of strategic intervention, in which
individuals find themselves caught up in broader process over which
they may have little or no control. The aim of this section is to
invite short (anything up to 2000 words) theorised autobiographies,
authoethnographies, and dramatic narratives of what it is like living
under fire, of the relevance of cultural studies in such
circumstances, and how it could be deployed to challenge such
conditions. The original Call emanated from a number of unsolicited
submissions we had been receiving from colleagues in Palestine and
Zimbabwe, letters from friends in Israel, and marginalised groups in
South Africa, and from academics whose research and work is pilloried
by hostile authorities. The exigencies of being under fire make it
hard to find the discursive space in which participants can catch
enough breath to speak the truths of their own participation:
· When does a culture of resistance lose focus, becoming a
culture of violence as an end in itself?
· At what point can one recognize when legitimate defence
against violence has suddenly become indistinguishable from the Warsaw
Ghetto?
· How can we turn war-talk into justice-talk, without
provoking war-mongers to renewed efforts?
· In a world with a global view of even the most local
eruption of violence, how can those under fire on opposite sides of
the street, the valley, the river, the sand dune find enough space to
escape the solidarities of occupation, of resistance, and develop a
language of restitution, restoration, Reformation, in the face of
corporate and state reaction?
· Closer to our sites of research, when does academic
managerialism and bureaucratisation of research become offensive,
anti-humanist and self-destructive? The academic enterprise is under
fire itself, as are many employed within it.
“Under Fire” hopes to become such a space, and we do not expect to
define what will make submissions acceptable or not. The object is for
those who have had enough, to speak in the ways they believe those
across the camp or the river might attend to them. The “Under Fire”
submissions should reflect not just the pressures of a personal
involvement within a context of oppression, occupation, or resistance;
it should carry a clear indication of just how this involvement tests
the cultural studies tradition. In this “test” the writers’ experience
must draw not only on the cultural studies method of examining texts
and contexts, but should also use the writer’s own context as the
critical touchstone for pushing the cultural studies envelope.
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions should be made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcrc (in cases where internet
connectivity is not conducive to a ScholarOne submission, we will
still accept manuscripts submitted via email to the Critical Arts
office. Send to Kieran Tavener-Smith at [log in to unmask] and/or
editor-in-chief, Keyan Tomaselli, at [log in to unmask]). Submissions
should be original works not simultaneously submitted elsewhere, if up
to 2000 words in length including any references. Referencing should
be done according to the Chicago manual of style (see attachment).
Indexes listing Critical Arts:
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) [ISI ranked]; Arts and
Humanities Citation Index; Alternative Press Index; ARTBibliographies
Modern; British Humanities Index; Film Literature Index; Humanities
International Index; Index to South African Periodicals; International
Bibliography of Social Sciences; International Bibliography of Theatre
& Dance; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; M L A
International Bibliography; Periodicals Index Online; R I L M
Abstracts of Music Literature
Critical Arts URLs:
Author Services:
http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/
Critical Arts Home Page:
http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=87
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcrcauth.asp
eJournals Archive (1980-1992):
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/
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