Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:22:23 -0500
From: radhika gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
Subject: [cultstud-l] Re: Critical Arts"  New Section - "Under Fire" -


>X-From_: sendmail Sat Mar 16 08:04:15 2002
>Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:33:16 +0200
>From: "Keyan Tomaselli" <TOMASELL-AT-nu.ac.za>

>
>
>                       Critical Arts:  
>      A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies
>                CALL FOR COMMENT - "Under Fire"
>
>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. 
>
>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, CRITICAL ARTS has
>instituted a new Section, "Under Fire".  The aim of this section
>is to invite short theorised autobiographies 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. (Length: anything up to
>2000 words.) How does one explain the contradictions, the
>opposing ir/rationalities, the fracturing of logics which so
>brutally feed political solidarities at any cost?
>
>This Call emanated from a number of unsolicited submissions we
>have been receiving from colleagues in Palestine and Zimbabwe, 
>letters from friends in Israel, and marginalised groups in South
>Africa, amongst others.  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
>and 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?
>
>"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.  We'll consider these submissions as and when they are
>received, and where appropriate publish them in successive issues
>of the journal.  Where necessary we will moderate inputs, but
>will avoid managing them.
>
>E-mail your narratives to:
>
>Keyan Tomaselli
>Editor-in-Chief
>tomasell-AT-nu.ac.za
>
>Critical Arts
>A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies
>c/o Graduate Programme in Cultiral and Media Studies
>University of Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa
>
>Fax:  + 27-31-260-1519
>Web site:  www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/publications/criticalarts/criticalarts.htm
>  
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