Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
May 2-5, 2003
Most plenary speakers are now confirmed for this conference, including Len
Findlay, Isobel Findlay, Rahim Jaffer MLA, Norman Nawrocki, Raj Pannu MLA,
and Jerry Zaslove, among others. Deadlines for individual themes vary, but
general submission under the conference's overall CFP are accepted until
February 1, 2003 (see link above for this general CFP).
THEME:
"Drug Culture" and the State
(DEADLINE 5 January 2003)
This theme in "Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future" examines
"drug culture" as an identificatory construct of the state that presently
and historically circumscribes and contains the excessive discourses of
gender, sex, ethnicity, and race. We invite papers that explore the
articulations and intersections of these discourses within "drug culture."
Given that the drug addict emerged at the end of the nineteenth century
among nativist fears of miscegenation and national decline, and amid
increased immigration, urbanization, industrialization, it is not surprising
that drugs and their users have so consistently occupied the popular and
political imagination of America. This theme seeks to examine various
imaginings of "drug culture" and their political functions and implications.
We welcome proposals from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* historical periods of drug panic
* drug policy
* America's "War on Drugs"/"War on Drugs" rhetoric
* race/ethnicity and drug culture
* class and drug culture
* the gendering of drug addiction
* figures of the female drug addict, eg. "crack whores," "crack moms"
* licit drug culture, "Prozac nation"
* rhetorics of recovery
* the politics of the disease concept of addiction
* epidemics of addiction
* medicine/medical authority and drug culture
* representations of drug culture in popular culture
Please send an abstract of 250 words for a paper of 15 to 20 minutes to the
theme coordinator, Joanne Muzak, by 5 January 2003. Early submissions are
encouraged and email submissions are welcome (no attachments please).
Theme Coordinator:
Joanne Muzak
Department of English
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5
jmuzak@ualberta.ca
The conference is funded by the Canada Research Chairs programme.
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