This is the call for papers of an accepted session at the 4th International
Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, to be held at Tampere, Finland
(June 29 -- July 2, 2002)
For information on the Conference, how to participate, how to propose a
paper, deadlines, etc., go to
www.Crossroads2002.com
Cultural Studies, Culture and Freedom
Although always implicit in cultural studies analyses and theories, freedom as
concept and practice has received little explicit attention in them. The original
emphasis in British cultural studies was on change, social change, but
concepts such as hegemony and resistance, and their practices, conditions
and effects, replaced that emphasis and occupied a central location and
importance in its architectures of thought and analysis. Power and
subordination, with culture as their sphere and instrument, have been
explored; it is now time to explore culture in its emancipatory, liberating
aspects and vectors.
At a decisive stage in modernity, freedom was conceived of as necessity. But
freedom can be thought as possibility, and in its effectiveness as
reality-producing force. Modernity emerged as freedom to, but its hegemonic
configurations replaced that originating impulse with the limit-setting logic of
freedom from. I invite papers focused on the concept and practice of freedom
in cultural studies.
Enquiries and 150-word abstracts to the Session organiser:
Alvaro Pina
University of Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: ferpi@mail.telepac.pt
Deadline for submissions: Jan. 15, 2002
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