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<p class="p1"><font size="2">Dear colleagues,</font></p>
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<p class="p1"><font size="2">Please be reminded that the following CFP closes on 5 September 2014. It’s open to postgraduate students and early career researchers working in and around media and cultural studies.</font></p>
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<p class="p1"><font size="2">Details below:</font></p>
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<p class="p1"><b><font size="2">Situating research, situating practice: New voices in cultural research</font></b></p>
<p class="p1"><b><font size="2">Special section of <i>Continuum</i></font></b></p>
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<p class="p1"><font size="2">As Jussi Parikka states: “Practices are in themselves theoretical excavations into the world of ‘things’, objects of (cultural) research conducted in a manner that makes the two inseparable. Practices probe, investigate, track,
interrupt, intervene and question [...] Practices are theories in the very dynamic mode that makes ‘theories work’” (Parikka 2011, p.34).</font></p>
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<p class="p1"><font size="2">This turn towards ‘practice’ has been enthusiastically taken up by cultural studies scholars, who have deployed this methodology in relation to a diverse range of fields including media, consumption and sustainability. This special
section follows on from the CSAA Intermezzo Symposium ‘Doing Cultural Studies: Interrogating Practice’.</font></p>
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<p class="p1"><font size="2">This special section offers a timely reflection on the role of practice theory in cultural studies. Using practice as a critical lens also presents an opportunity for emerging scholars to consider their own research practice and
methodological orientation. It will showcase postgraduate students and early career researchers critically engaging with their own position as scholars and articulating what it means to ‘practice’ or ‘do’ cultural studies.</font></p>
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<p class="p1"><font size="2">We are particularly interested in abstracts that engage with new methods of cultural research, new research sites, and new critical approaches. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words to doingculturalstudies@gmail.com by 5 September
2014. If accepted, full papers will be due by 16 January 2015. The special section will be published in 2016.</font></p>
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<p class="p1"><font size="2">Editors: Jenny Kennedy, James Meese, and Emily van der Nagel</font></p>
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