[csaa-forum] Special Issue Release: fusion, Issue 5

[Andrew Hickey]

Dear Cultural Studies Colleagues,

On behalf of colleague Assoc. Prof. Jane Mills, could I draw your attention to the release of Issue 5 of fusion. This special issue of fusion has been compiled from papers delivered at the CSAA supported Intermezzo Symposium, 'The Uses of Literacy', hosted by UNSW earlier this year. Please also note the call for papers for Issue 6 'The rise and fall of social housing' as detailed below.







Issue 5 of fusion, an international open access online scholarly journal for the communication, creative industries, and media arts, is now live;



http://www.fusion-journal.com/issue/005-fusion-changing-patterns-and-critical-dialogues-new-uses-of-literacy/





Edited by Associate Professor Jane Mills (UNSW, Australia) and Dr Nasya Bahfen (Monash University)



This issue comprises papers from the New Uses of Literacy Symposium initiated by the Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) and staged by the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, and other specially commissioned contributions. The symposium theme emerged from ongoing local and international debates about the different approaches to ‘literacy’ in contemporary Cultural Studies. According to Stuart Hall, “there would have been no Cultural Studies” were it not for Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (1957). The importance of literacies as a topic reflects Graeme Turner’s concern that the research projects of many students (and many academics, we may add) “are too often reduced to their topic rather than situated with the broadest possible relation to a body of ideas, concepts and approaches” (What's Become of Cultural Studies? 2012). This issue of fusion asked contributors to return to Hoggart’s seminal text to (re)consider current scholarship in the intersecting disciplines of Literacy Studies and Cultural Studies, and other interrelated fields of research including Media Studies, Communication Studies, Screen Studies, and the Creative Industries.





Issue 6 – The Rise and Fall of Social Housing: future directions

Deadline for submissions: 30 January, 2015

Publication date: 30 April, 2015

Guest editors: Dr. Ursa Komac and Dr. Milica Muminovic, University of Canberra, Australia.


Not until the rise of modern industrial city in the mid-nineteenth century did the problem of housing become a serious issue for planners, architects, social reformers and state officials. With the divide between the city and country, the rise of the Metropolis and its subsequent transmutation into the Megalopolis put pressure on governmental agencies to establish housing policies to accommodate unprecedented urban migrations, and residual regional populations. The ideals underpinning early modernist architects’ concern with social housing projects and its relationship with the city were met with obstacles or ended up as a failure when transformed into reality. With the advent of globalization, the fluidity of capital investment and mass migration compromised the project of social housing together with its urbanity. The neo-liberal political order is unable to meet the crisis that is taking place in the margin of every megalopolis around the world. The essential role of social housing in the city keeps haunting architects, planners, governments and communities. In this situation, the relationship between the city, urbanity, social housing and quality of life are becoming fundamental issues for an increasing number of professions in the 21st century.

We invite architects, urban and regional planners, public intellectuals, cultural critics, economists, political philosophers, artists, sociologists, anthropologists, and public administrators to critically re-visit the theoretical-historical question of social housing and its role in contemporary urban and regional development.

Suggested themes for papers include, but are not exclusive to:
Relationships between housing and: typology, morphology, history, public life, public space, everyday ordinary space, urbanity, public-private, dwelling, sustainability, ethics, and place identity.





Dr Andrew Hickey, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer (Communications)
School of Arts and Communications
Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba | Queensland | 4350 | Australia
Ph: +61 7 4631 2337 | Fax: +61 7 4631 2828 |
Email: Andrew.Hickey at usq.edu.au<mailto:XXXXXXX at usq.edu.au>

- President, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia



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