[spectre] FW: Call for artworks - Cultural Politics

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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YOU ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ARTWORK FOR:

Cultural Politics

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CALL FOR ARTWORKS:

We are looking for relevant exciting  and provocative artwork
contributions
for Cultural Politics, a new interdisciplinary peer reviewed
journal
published by Berg and co-edited by John Armitage (Northumbria,
UK), Ryan
Bishop (National University of Singapore) and Douglas Kellner
(UCLA).
Cultural Politics achieves its aims through the efforts of an
editorial
board and an editorial advisory board composed of globally
recognized and
active scholars in cultural and political studies. The journal
publishes
cutting-edge work exploring new meanings of the cultural and the
political
from the mainstream to the marginal and presents innovative
conceptions of
cultural politics whilst contributing to contemporary and future
debates.
           The traditionally limited definition of cultural
politics,
understood as a sub-discipline of cultural studies, is being
questioned from
numerous directions. The journal is committed to opening a
global space for
discussion of alternatives to a limited comprehension of
cultural politics.
The shift from cultural studies to cultural politics is
intentional and
significant. Moving to the emergent discipline of cultural
politics denotes
a considerable mistrust of every suggestion that cultural and
political
theories and interpretations can any longer be wholly
incorporated within
cultural studies. Alternatively, the journal aims to support the
examin! ation
and discussion of interdisciplinary understandings,
developments,
potentialities and alternatives that may comprise the
contemporary nature
and future of cultural politics. Cultural Politics embraces the
study of
transnational cultural identities and processes in addition to
the analysis
of political problems and the examination of the character and
agency of
cultural and political explanations.
           To facilitate this range of global possibilities, the
journal is
open to transnational fields of knowledge production. These
include cultural
studies (performance, lesbian and gay studies, race studies,
women's
studies, postcolonialism, communications and media studies), the
humanities
(literature, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, art, museum
studies,
technology, education and architecture) and the social sciences
(political
economy, geography, politics, anthropology and sociology).
Cultural Politics
considers contributions from any related disciplinary setting,
but
particularly encourages interdisciplinary global research
conducted by
contributors in both the advanced and developing countries. The
role of
Cultural Politics is to play a key part in the construction and
development
of the growing field of critical cultural politics, in the quest
for newly
globalized forms of cultural and political production,
education, exchange,
debate and action.
           Cultural Politics is not limited to publishing
dialogues with and
critiques of extant cultural studies, even if such dialogues and
critiques
are an important element of the journal. Cultural Politics
engages with
global debates on the cultural nature and practices of
transnational
political change. By including OEField Reports', the journal has
instituted
a link between global cultural and political theory and
pr! actice, between
interpretation and action, both within and beyond the academy.
Cultural
Politics publishes high-quality work, in the form of academic
articles,
illustrations and artworks, which is relevant and comprehensible
to the
global public sphere, including those cultural intellectuals and
political
activists who practise a cultural politics exclusively in
non-academic
fields in addition to university lecturers, researchers and
students.

AIMS & SCOPE:
Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that
explores the
global character and effects of contemporary culture and
politics. Cultural
Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and
what is
political about culture. Publishing across the Arts, Humanities
and Social
Sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political
positions,
cultural approaches and geographical locations.
           Cultural Politics publishes work that analyses how
cultural
identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts,
and global
media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved. In so
doing, the
journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic,
marginalised or unexplored regions of cultural politics.
           Cultural Politics, while embodying the
interdisciplinary coverage
and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies,
emphasizes
how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate
analyses of
political power. The journal invites articles on: representation
and visual
culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film and
communications;
popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and
consumption;
language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art
and
aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and
the a! cademy;< BR>cities, architecture and the spatial; global capitalism;
Marxism; value and
ideology; the military, weaponry and war; power, authority and
institutions;
global governance and democracy; political parties and social
movements;
human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational
activism and
change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and
performance;
heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian and gay sexualities; race,
blackness,
whiteness and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global
and the
local; patriarchy, feminism and gender studies; postcolonialism;
and
political activism.

ARTWORK FOR CULTURAL POLITICS
Cultural Politics invites artwork contributions for the page
comprising a
broad range of subjects, methodological approaches, and
historical and
social events. Such contributions may take the form of  visual
essays,
interventions and case studies.

SUBMISSIONS
Should you have a contribution you would like Cultural Politics
to consider,
please send the relevant material to the arts editor in the
first instance:

Louise K Wilson
21 Spinkfield Road
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD2 2AY
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UK

NOTES FOR ARTWORK CONTRIBUTORS
As a rough guideline to the layout of a contribution we would
like to have a
few images (between three and five) and a contextualising text.
The textual
part can be either more academic or personal, whichever best
reveals the
specifics of the work.  The images count toward the overall word
count for
each issue, but it is possible to have a heavier image presence
and less
textual content, if that is desired. For! overall journal
presence, we are
thinking of 5-7000 words including images in that word count.

Contributions must include a three-sentence biography of the
artist(s). The
Publishers will require a disk as well as a hard copy of any
contributions
(please mark clearly on the disk what word-processing program
has been
used). Berg accepts most programs with the exception of
Clarisworks.

Figures
All illustrative material (drawings, maps, diagrams, and
photographs) should
be designated "Figures." They must be submitted in a form
suitable for
publication without redrawing. Drawings should be carefully done
with black
ink on either hard, white, smooth-surfaced board or good quality
tracing
paper. Ordinarily, computer- generated drawings are not of
publishable
quality. The publishers encourage black and white photographs.
Whenever
possible, such photographs should be 8 x 10 to inches. The
publishers
encourage artwork to be submitted as scanned files (300 dpi or
above) on
disk or via email. All figures should be clearly numbered on the
back and
numbered consecutively. All captions should be typed
double-spaced on a
separate page. Marginal notations on manuscripts should indicate
approximately where figures are to appear. While the editors and
publishers
will use ordinary care in protecting all figures submitted, they
cannot
assume responsibility for their loss or damage. Authors are
discouraged from
submitting rare or non-replaceable materials. It is the author's
responsibility to secure written copyright clearance on all
photographs and
drawings that are not in the public domain. Copyright should be
obtained for
worldwide rights and on-line publishing.



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