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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Three cheers for Adrian Martin’s post. I have been following the discussion on the ERA list with much alarm as almost everyone seems to think that the ERA listing will spell the end of smaller humanities and cultural studies journals, including the one I edit, Transformations. It was against such attempts to include, exclude, measure and corporatise the ‘content’ of intellectual activity that I initially started Transformations as an independently minded e-journal in 2000. We operate without funding and with a small team of core workers, backed by a helpful group on the editorial board and an army of referees. We are constantly heartened by the amount of good will from academics and others in the humanities towards ensuring the articles submitted are of the highest standard possible. I cannot see that the possession or not of a high ERA ranking will change this. Indeed, it is my hope that authors will take this opportunity to resist the corporatisation of intellectual output in line with the powerful ideas of critique that we follow and espouse, and continue to support and sustain independent journal publication in Australia by continuing to submit material and offer to referee submissions and the other things that make for a rich, critically minded intellectual culture offering opportunities for all (a fair go) that one assumes the CSAA supports wholeheartedly.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#008080">Dr. Warwick Mules<BR>
General Editor Transformations <a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/</a><BR>
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English, Media Studies and Art History<BR>
University of Queensland<BR>
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