<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cultures of Capitalism</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cultural Studies Association of
Australasia Conference 2017</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">December 6-8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Massey University, Wellington Campus</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Aotearoa New Zealand</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Keynote Speakers: Professor Patricia
Hill Collins (University of Maryland), Professor Jodi Dean (</span><span class="gmail-m662655813625197948gmail-st"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hobart
and William Smith Colleges</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">),
Professor Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Professor Wendy Larner
(University of Victoria, Wellington).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The relationship between capital and
culture is hotly contested. On the one hand, dominant political discourses
valorise “culture” as the solution for ailing communities, cities and
industries. Discourses of neo-liberal globalization claim that, in the face of
mass migration, war and climate change, communities equipped with the “right”
culture will adapt and endure, while others will be left behind; discourses of
urban planning celebrate culture as the key to revitalising municipal economies
through creativity and social participation; and discourses of post-industrial
work, parsing radical shifts in the manufacturing sector, champion cultural,
intellectual and creative labour as the paradigm for new forms of work. On the
other, a range of critical voices, many of them associated with Cultural
Studies, offer a decidedly less rosy vision of the relationship between culture
and emergent capitalist formations. For these critics, nascent technologies of
capital have led to a renewed reification and exploitation of racialised,
sexualised, and classed populations, even as newly precarious conditions of
labour give rise to affective economies marked by depression, antagonism and
the “crisis ordinary.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 2017 Cultural Studies Association of
Australasia conference will focus on the work that cultures do in constructing,
contesting, and constituting new capital formations. While the “culture
industry” critique cast culture as the opiate through which economic dominance
is propagated, cultures can potentially mediate economic conditions in multiple
and heterogeneous ways. This conference invites contributions that explore
these mediations. In doing so, we return to one of the key concerns of early
cultural studies: to make sense of the mutually-determining relation between
culture and its capitalist context. If, following Stuart Hall, we understand
‘culture’ as the production of meaning through language and representation,
what are the modes of communication through which capitalism/s are created? How
are capitalism/s materialised in different spaces? How is it embodied in
different identities and communities? What is the role of the economy in
shaping the possibilities for culture? What is the role of Cultural Studies as
critical praxis in the present economic time?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Papers are invited to address, but are
not limited to, the following themes:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>The cultural politics of neoliberalism<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Precarious and/or immaterial labour<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Digital capitalism<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Capitalist affects<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Trump, Brexit and the resurgence of
capitalist nationalisms<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Capitalism, culture and technology<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>The cultural and creative industries<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Capitalism, culture and sustainability<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Cultures of surveillance and war<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Cultural identity and globalisation<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Cultural resistance and activism<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Productive and unproductive cultures<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Base, superstructure and mediation<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Formal and real subsumption of culture<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Representations of capitalism, class
and markets<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Political economies of online, digital
and social media<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Anticapitalist, Socialist, Anarchist
and Communist cultures<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Racial capitalism<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">· <span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Critical theory, Cultural Marxism and
Cultural Studies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The conference also accepts papers that
fall within the general disciplinary area of Cultural Studies. We are also
happy to accept submissions for pre-formed panels: if you wish to submit as
part of a pre-formed panel, please indicate this in your submission.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In addition, to the regular conference
events, we will also be holding a pre-fix day for postgraduate students and
early career researchers. More details regarding this event will be announced
shortly.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Early bird registration costs for the
event will be $350 NZD for faculty and fully waged participants, and $250 NZD
for students, adjunct faculty and unwaged participants. Registration will
include membership of the CSAA.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you are interested in presenting at
the conference, please send a 250 word abstract with your<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>name, e-mail address and affiliation<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:csaa2017@massey.ac.nz" target="_blank">csaa2017@massey.ac.nz</a><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>by August 1 2017. Any other enquires
regarding the event should also be addressed to<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:csaa2017@massey.ac.nz" target="_blank">csaa2017@massey.ac.nz</a>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Website:<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://csaa2017.ac.nz/" target="_blank">csaa2017.ac.nz</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organising Committee:
Nicholas Holm (Massey University), Sy Taffel (Massey University), Holly Randell-Moon
(University of Otago), Pansy Duncan (Massey University), Ian Huffer (Massey
University), Kevin Veale (Massey University). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Sy
Taffel, PhD<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt">Lecturer
in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt">College
of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt">Email:
</span><a href="mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz"><span style="font-size:8pt">s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz</span></a><span style="font-size:8pt"> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356
9099 ext. 84527<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt">Recently
Published:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498535694/Ecological-Entanglements-in-the-Anthropocene"><span style="font-size:8pt">Ecologial Entanglements in the Anthropocene</span></a><span style="font-size:8pt">, edited by Nicholas Holm
and Sy Taffel, Lexington Books<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3/355.abstract"><span style="font-size:8pt">Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and
Plastics</span></a><span style="font-size:8pt">. Cultural Politics 2016:3, 355-375</span><span></span></p>
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