<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Hanke</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhanke@yorku.ca">bhanke@yorku.ca</a>></span><br>Date: 13 March 2011 04:46<br>
Subject: Call for Papers: TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies -- Out of the Ruins: The University to Come<br>To: <a href="mailto:a.murphie@unsw.edu.au">a.murphie@unsw.edu.au</a><br><br><br>
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Hi Andrew,<br><br>
<font size="3">Would you kindly circulate this new TOPIA CFP with attached
PDF to Fibreculture listserv?<br><br>
thanks,<br><br>
Bob Hanke<br><br>
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TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies<br>
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</b></font><font size="4">CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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</font><font size="4">Out of the Ruins: The University to Come<br><br>
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Guest Editors<br>
Bob Hanke (York University) and Alison Hearn (University of Western
Ontario)<br><br>
<i>TOPIA </i>27, Fall 2012<br>
<br>
This special issue of <i>TOPIA</i> seeks contributions (articles,
offerings, review essays and book reviews) that reflect on the
contemporary university and its discontents. Fifteen years after the
publication of Bill Readings’ seminal book <i>The University in Ruins</i>
and in the wake of the UK government’s new austerity budget, Nick Couldry
and Angela McRobbie proclaim the death of the English university. In
Italy students demonstrating against the Bologna Process protect
themselves from police with giant books. On the heels of severe budget
cuts and increasing privatization in the California state system,
protesting students occupy university buildings, while in British
Columbia and Quebec hundreds of students gather for rallies against
spiraling student debt and increasing corporate influence on campus.
Everywhere university systems are being eviscerated by neoliberal logics
asserting themselves even in the face of economic recession. After
decades of chronic under-funding and restructuring, public universities
have ceded the university’s public role in a democracy and embraced
“academic capitalism” as a “moral” obligation. Acting as venture
capitalists, they pressure academics to transfer and mobilize knowledge
and encourage research partnerships with private interests; acting as
real estate developers, they take over neighbourhoods with callous
disregard for established communities; acting as military contractors,
they produce telecommunications software and light armoured vehicles for
foreign governments; acting as brand managers, they open branch plant
campuses around the world and compete for foreign students who can be
charged exorbitant fees for access to a “first world” education. With
tuition fees and student debt on the rise, academic labour is tiered,
cheapened and divided against itself; two-thirds of classes in U.S.
colleges and universities are taught by faculty employed on insecure, non
tenure-track contracts. The casualization of academic labour and a plea
for sustainable academic livelihoods were at the core of the longest
strike in English Canadian university history. As collegiality, academic
freedom, and self-governance recede from view, the university remains a
terrain of adaptation and struggle.<br>
<br>
We will need all the conceptual tools that cultural studies can muster to
analyze the changing university as the foundation for our academic
callings and scholarly practices. In addition to external influences such
as globalization, technoscience, corporatization, mediatization, and
higher education policy, internal managerial initiatives,
bureaucratization, deprofessionalization, structural complicity between
administration and faculty, and intellectual subjectivities must also be
analyzed. All of us, no matter what our political position, must take the
time to reflect on the broad questions raised by these changes. Is the
site of the university worth struggling over or re-imagining? Can the
neoliberal university be set against itself? Is it time for reform or
exodus? What other practices of knowledge production, interpretations,
modes of organization, and assemblages are possible? This special issue
is designed to reflect upon, analyze and strategize about the past,
present and future of the university.<br>
<br>
In addition to these matters of concern, possible topics to further
dialogue and enable further study include but are not limited to:
<ul>
<li>analyzing and assessing the crisis of the public university
</li><li>implementing globalizations: theory, rhetoric and historical
experience
</li><li>continuity and transformation in national academic cultures
</li><li>the position and role of the arts, humanities and social sciences
</li><li>university leaders and university making
</li><li>managerial theory/practice, academic ethics, and the symbolism of
university finance
</li><li> university-private sector intermediaries and initiatives;
“innovation” and “creativity” as alibis for academic capitalism;
knowledge “transfer” and “mobilization”
</li><li> marketing, media relations and the promotional condition of the
university
</li><li> space, time, speed and rhythm in the network university
</li><li> the professor-entrepreneur, research practice, and the
imperative to produce
</li><li> academic labour, tenure, stratification and precarity
</li><li> faculty governance, unions and institutional democracy
</li><li> the indebted, student-worker and the decline of academic study
</li><li> scholarly disciplines and territories, infrastructure,
information practices, communication and publishing
</li><li> the scholarly community of money: grant agencies, writing,
committees and adjudication
</li><li> media/cultural production and critical/radical pedagogy
</li><li> the development of knowledge cultures and the expansion of the
commons
</li><li> the university in relation to nearby communities and wider
social movements
</li><li> resistance, common and counter-knowledge, alternative
educational formations
</li><li> remaking the public university in Canada and in other national
contexts
</li></ul>
Submissions<br>
<br>
To view the author guidelines, see
<a href="http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/about/submissions#authorGuidelines" target="_blank">
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/about/submissions#authorGuidelines</a>
.<br>
To submit papers (with titles, abstracts and keywords) and supplementary
media files online, you need to register and login to the <i>TOPIA
</i>website at
<a href="http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/user/register" target="_blank">
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/user/register</a>.<br>
<br>
The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2012. Peer review and
notification of acceptance will be completed by May 15, 2012. Final
manuscripts accepted for publication will be due July 5, 2012. Comments
and queries can be sent to Bob Hanke
<a href="mailto:bhanke@yorku.ca" target="_blank">bhanke@yorku.ca</a> or Alison Hearn
<a href="mailto:ahearn2@uwo.ca" target="_blank">ahearn2@uwo.ca</a>.<br>
<br>
For more information about <i>TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural
Studies</i>, visit
<a href="http://www.yorku.ca/topia" target="_blank">
www.yorku.ca/topia<br><br>
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