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Hi all
<p>Here is our call for papers for our next theme issue of Southern Review.
Contributions welcome - please contact Philip Dearman or Robert Briggs
direct.
<p>Cheers
<br>Sue Yell
<br>
<p>Call for Papers
<p><i>Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture</i>
<br>Special Issue, 37.3, 2004
<p><b>Manufacturing Consent?</b>
<p>Editors: Robert Briggs and Philip Dearman
<br>Monash University, Gippsland Campus
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<p>How can consent be theorised today? What, for instance, are the contemporary
means or conditions for manufacturing consent? What is the role of media
rhetoric and practice in the formation of consent? What is the place of
consent in advanced liberal democracies, or in other non-liberal geo-political
contexts? What are the relations between consent and consensus in political
or governmental processes? How essential is consent or consensus to the
operations of contemporary politics and of global politics in particular?
Can consent be gained on a supra-national level? Or must it be conceived,
at every level, as unstable and ineffective, as no longer relevant to the
study of democracy in its many forms?
<p>And what of past theories of consent and consensus, such as the one
bound to a notion of “hegemony”? In what ways do contemporary events —
“September 11”, “Iraq”, “Tampa”, “Madrid” — invite us to return to and
to reconsider such theories and their place (or otherwise) within communication
studies, as part (or not) of the history of the discipline?
<p><i>Southern Review</i> invites theoretically informed discussions (4000-6000
words) of the contemporary forms, places, functions and possibilities of
consent for the 2004 special issue, “Manufacturing Consent?”. Papers may
be submitted as attachments to an email, and should be double-spaced in
A4 format and accompanied by an abstract (maximum 100 words). Referencing
is author-date (notes for contributors and full details of house style
are available on request).
<p>The general aim of <i>Southern Review</i>, an interdisciplinary journal,
is to focus on the connections between communication and politics. Southern
Review is interested in communication and cultural technologies, their
histories, producers and audiences, policies and texts. Articles are welcomed
which connect these either to arenas of legislative or parliamentary politics,
or to broader negotiations of power.
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<p>robert.briggs@arts.monash.edu.au
<br>philip.dearman@arts.monash.edu.au
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<p>Full articles due: July 30, 2004.
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<p> --
<br>Dr Susan Yell
<br>Head, Communications & Writing
<br>School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences
<br>Monash University
<br>Gippsland Campus, Churchill, VIC 3842
<br>AUSTRALIA
<p>ph. 61 3 5122 6442 or 9902 6442
<br>fax 61 3 5122 6359 or 9902 6359
<br>email sue.yell@arts.monash.edu.au
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