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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span>Dear CSAA members, <br></span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span> This is to bring to your attention the following CFP. Should some of you be interested in contributing to this Thematic Section, please get in touch to discuss your ideas. <br></span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span>We look forward to hearing from you.</span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span>Best always,</span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span>Harmony Siganporia and Nosipho Mngomezulu</span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span><br></span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span> <br></span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span>Name of Publication: <u>Culture Unbound – Journal of Current Cultural Research</u> (<a href="http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/">http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/</a>)</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> <b><br></b></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Special Thematic Section, 2017: Call For Papers</span></span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2"><span>Editors:</span></font><font size="2"><span><span> </span>Dr.Harmony
Siganporia (</span></font><font size="2"><span>Assistant Professor, </span></font><font size="2"><span><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US">MICA- India)</span></font></span></font><font size="2"><span></span></font><font size="2"><span></span></font><font size="2"><span><span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US"> & </span></font><font size="2"><span>Dr. Nosipho Mngomezulu</span><span> (Lecturer, </span></font><font size="2"><span lang="EN-US">University of the
Witwatersrand, South Africa)</span><span></span></font><font size="2">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">This Season of Discontent: Understanding Student Movements in Neoliberal
Times </span></i></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">"There's a riot going on": this is the title of Peter
Doggett's exploration of the heady counter-culture movement which swept across
large swathes of the world in and around the 1960s. Decades later, this phrase
has acquired a new resonance; an almost prophetic quality, when it is used to
describe what we have been witnessing across University campuses in South
Africa, India, and a number of other countries since 2015. Increasing clamp
downs on institutions of higher learning (ranging from state-run to private as
well as rights-based organisations), and the unease manifest in the ways in
which students have responded to what is now commonly identified as the
commercialisation of higher education - the University embracing its role as
arbiter and perpetuator of the neoliberal creed - are inter-related phenomena,
and need to be understood in terms of what they mean for youth and student
politics, as well as what these movements have done to disrupt the systematic
inequities and violence/s configured into the workings of the institutions
which house them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"">This
Thematic Issue </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">aims to bring together contributions from
countries currently in the throes of student movements world over; from Brazil
to South Africa and India, in a bid to set these movements in conversation.
Ever aware that these divisions between 'local' and 'global' are increasingly
blurred, this issue aims to center narratives from the Global South in order to
think through the myriad transnational movements articulating themselves in
acutely different ways, in increasingly neoliberal modes, in various
post-colonial contexts, together. It also seeks to complement our understanding
of the nexus between the commoditisation of higher education and projects of
nationalism.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">In sum, this Section is an attempt to engage with the larger question of
how we may, as scholars, educators and ethnographers, engage with and elucidate
these student movements.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Some of the questions submissions could engage with could be: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">- How do we explore the connections between projects such as
nationalism, nation-building, and the sphere of higher education? We are also
interested in understanding the legitimising narratives of anti-student
movements, and how student movements come to be delegitimised or read as 'anti-national'/agents
of 'third forces' or external agents. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">- What is the conceived purpose of state-subsidised higher education in
post-colonial states? How are localisation, transformation and decolonisation
read in transnational neoliberal contexts?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"">- How do
we make sense of and account for the many forms violence takes in these
movements? We are particularly interested in the various
ways/situations/contexts in which violence takes place, especially those forms
of violence which are often negated or ignored in the wake of protest action.
Which forms of violence are deemed more 'acceptable' than others?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><span> </span>- We take for granted that no
movement is homogeneous in its composition and no movement can speak for every
member’s experience at all times. So how can movements build into themselves
the mechanisms for internal audits and reflexivity that would make them truly
intersectional and inclusive?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Please
submit an article of between 4,000-10,000 words, with an abstract of 300 words
as well as 5-8 keywords. Additionally, include a short author’s bio of 50
words, including affiliation, research interests and e-mail address. Send it
to: </span><a href="mailto:harmony@micamail.in" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif";color:blue">harmony@micamail.in</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""> and </span><a href="mailto:nosipho.mngomezulu@wits.ac.za" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif";color:blue">nosipho.mngomezulu@wits.ac.za</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""> . </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">The deadline for submissions is April 10th, 2017.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></p>
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