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Date: Mon,  5 Feb 2001 12:36:24 -0500
From: "M. Michael Schiff"  <mmschiff-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Call for submissions:  "Open-Strike!" j_spot special issue (journal)


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Call for Submissions for "Open-Strike!" 
a special issue of 
j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought 
http://www.yorku.ca/jspot/cfs.htm
j_spot-AT-yorku.ca 

Teaching assistants, contract faculty and graduate assistants of the 
Canadian Union of Public Employees 3903 at York University, have recently 
returned^×-victoriously-^×to their academic work after a three-month 
strike. In an increasingly right-wing political climate the success of 
the strike announces hope and the efficacy of political praxis. This 
profound event has affected many people in a variety of ways, materially, 
bodily, ideologically, etc., and truly calls for testimony.

j_spot, the Journal of Social and Political Thought, is pleased to 
announce a special 'open strike' issue. We aim to provide a forum for 
strike commentary of all forms: critical analysis, social and political 
theory, email threads, photographs and other art-making, documents of 
actions, hypertext, and personal reflection. While the recent CUPE 3903 
strike is the impetus behind this call, as are labour issues related to 
the York University Faculty Association strike of 1997 and the recent 
action at Carleton University in Ottawa, we are also interested in 
theoretical reflections on the state and status of the university as a 
pedagogical site in relation to critical contemporary realities of 
education and academic work. We encourage submissions that consider a 
larger context. What are the exigencies of the current situation at your 
university? In relation to your political system? How do labour disputes, 
faculty and student movements, government pressures, departmental 
administrations, or other social and political forces impact upon the 
delivery and experience of education?

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Please forward submissions as soon as possible to j_spot-AT-yorku.ca. In 
order to create a timely response, the special "Open-Strike!" issue of 
j_spot will be posted online as soon as it reaches a critical mass. 
"Open-Strike!" will _not_ be peer-refereed in the manner of other issues 
of the journal, but the journal's editorial collective reserves the right 
to vet and edit articles as appropriate. Regular submissions for peer 
review are still being received; potential contributors should consult 
the journal's website.

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j_spot-AT-yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/jspot
j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought

"j_spot is an interdisciplinary electronic journal focusing on a wide 
range of intersections between theory, politics, culture, and social 
justice. In light of contemporary political and intellectual conditions 
in late capitalist society, j_spot aims to expand the space for 
interdisciplinary critique, innovation, and originality. Already situated 
in the rapidly evolving nexus of technologically mediated social and 
political change-^×a transformative nexus which itself must not escape 
critique^×-j_spot aims to give free rein to the crucial, critical energies 
that aim beyond a deadly acceptance of the status quo."

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M. Michael Schiff | mailo:m-AT-mmichael.com
Ph.D. Candidate | Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought
York University | Toronto | Canada
http://www.mmichael.com | http://www.yorku.ca/SPoT


   

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