The Second International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
Beja, Portugal, Nov 24-27, 2004
Deadline for 150-word abstracts: July 15, 2004
All abstracts to be submitted through Mundiconvenius:
http://www.mundiconvenius.pt/2004/culture/default.htm
info@mundiconvenius.pt
Themed session:
CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE FUTURE
Session organiser:
Ana Isabel Lopes (anilopes@clix.pt)
At the beginning of the 21st century, we are grappling with political and
economic contexts whose paradoxes are often difficult to reason out, and
which seem to hinder the task Williams set up for cultural studies in its
articulation with the experimental work developed within adult education:
In its most general bearings, this work remained a kind of intellectual
analysis which wanted to change the actual developments of societyı. What
sort of changes can we effect when, as Bourdieu reminds us, the utopia of
neo-liberalism, turned into a political programme, has enforced a system of
relations of domination which, mediated by networks of rules and
regulations, escapes the grasp of individual consciousnessı? What are the
mechanisms behind the dominant strategy of reducing the causes for the
workersı experience of uncertainty and distress to the inexorable unfolding
of the economy? How does the mapping of the politically produced relations
which structure our life enable us to think the future?
This session invites reflections upon these and other issues concerning the
relationship between culture, politics and modes of (re)thinking the future.
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