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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I didn't say that it wouldn't impact upon labour conditions; I said that individual academics might 'take this opportunity,' that is, <I>decide</I> to do otherwise, and hence affect a resistive power to support independent research.<BR>
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Warwick<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">> From: Ned Rossiter <<a href="ned@nedrossiter.org">ned@nedrossiter.org</a>><BR>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:02:42 +0800<BR>
> To: CSAA discussion list <<a href="csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au">csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au</a>><BR>
> Subject: Re: [csaa-forum] ERA Listings and journal survival<BR>
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> Sorry to be the spoiler here, but this all sounds very quaint. Are <BR>
> CS academics really so naive with regard to their working conditions? <BR>
> While I share the motivations and desires around so-called <BR>
> independent journals, both past and present, it is pretty crucial to <BR>
> make the connection between the desire for independence and <BR>
> infrastructural conditions - minimal as they may be - that university <BR>
> employment provides.<BR>
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> Like the 'free labour' of much of the open source software movement, <BR>
> the independence of the more peripheral, experimental journals is as <BR>
> strong as the 'free time' academics and researchers have to devote to <BR>
> the administration and production of such journals. If that time is <BR>
> subtracted by increased administrative / teaching duties that arise <BR>
> from the division between research 'active' and 'teaching' staff - a <BR>
> division built into the regime of rankings, then it doesn't matter <BR>
> how much 'good will' and 'powerful ideas of critique' there is out <BR>
> there. Simply put, the ERA will impact upon labour conditions, and <BR>
> to think otherwise is really pretty freaky.<BR>
> <BR>
> Ned<BR>
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> <BR>
> On 16 Jul 2008, at 14:10, Warwick Mules wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000">>> Three cheers for Adrian Martin’s post. I have been following the <BR>
>> discussion on the ERA list with much alarm as almost everyone seems <BR>
>> to think that the ERA listing will spell the end of smaller <BR>
>> humanities and cultural studies journals, including the one I edit, <BR>
>> Transformations. It was against such attempts to include, <BR>
>> exclude, measure and corporatise the ‘content’ of intellectual <BR>
>> activity that I initially started Transformations as an <BR>
>> independently minded e-journal in 2000. We operate without funding <BR>
>> and with a small team of core workers, backed by a helpful group on <BR>
>> the editorial board and an army of referees. We are constantly <BR>
>> heartened by the amount of good will from academics and others in <BR>
>> the humanities towards ensuring the articles submitted are of the <BR>
>> highest standard possible. I cannot see that the possession or not <BR>
>> of a high ERA ranking will change this. Indeed, it is my hope that <BR>
>> authors will take this opportunity to resist the corporatisation of <BR>
>> intellectual output in line with the powerful ideas of critique <BR>
>> that we follow and espouse, and continue to support and sustain <BR>
>> independent journal publication in Australia by continuing to <BR>
>> submit material and offer to referee submissions and the other <BR>
>> things that make for a rich, critically minded intellectual culture <BR>
>> offering opportunities for all (a fair go) that one assumes the <BR>
>> CSAA supports wholeheartedly.<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Regards<BR>
>> <BR>
>> <BR>
>> <BR>
>> Warwick<BR>
>> <BR>
>> <BR>
>> Dr. Warwick Mules<BR>
>> General Editor Transformations <a href="http://">http://</a> <BR>
>> www.transformationsjournal.org/<BR>
>> <BR>
>> <BR>
>> English, Media Studies and Art History<BR>
>> University of Queensland<BR>
>> Brisbane Qld<BR>
>> mobile: 0412292541<BR>
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