Hot Cultures Research Grouping |
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Popular Cultures | Warm Climate Cultures | Topical Cultures |
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'Hot
Cultures' is a
research group
within the
School of
Communication,
International
Studies and
beyond which
brings together
staff and
postgraduate
students
undertaking
cultural studies
research.
Current Research Activities
Special edition of Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Vol. 25, No. 5, November 2011) entitled: 'Bazaar Encounters: Food, Markets, Belonging and Citizenship in the Cosmopolitan City', and edited by Peter Bishop, Jean Duruz and Susan Luckman. Contributors and Papers:
Special edition of Social Alternatives (Vol. 30, Issue 2 June 2011) entitled: 'Shifting Cultures', and edited by Bridget Garnham, Jodie George, Martine Hawkes, Jessica Pacella and Rosie Roberts Provocation: Shifting Cultures conjures mobility, transmission, transformation, event, response, time and place. In this edition of Social Alternatives we explore how events shift culture; how people respond in the everyday to shape culture and how cultural action and cultural artifacts tilt, alter, redirect and transform culture. We will be drawing on contemporary responses to small and not so small events and interventions such as government campaigns and community radio responses in Java, the scar and commemoration that is the 'Sarajevo Roses', branding Australia and the re-branding Macedonia. We will consider 'event' as the product of a synthesis of forces. We address the production of interactions between various kinds of events, action and reaction and witness aspects of the internal dynamics and the cultural practices of locale. Here we observe and analyse the expression of productive potential, the practices of potentiality that provide insight into change, tactic, strategy and thinking anew through the simultaneity of thinking and creating. Shifting Cultures contributes to the ways in which we frame our understanding of the making of culture and the ways in which cultural change occurs. The edition contributes to understanding and engagement with contemporary pressures of a creative and political as well as economic, social, environmental form. Shifting Cultures will be comprised of scholarly essays, poetry, photography and opinion pieces that come from the media and culture research cluster within the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia.
Dr
Susan Luckman |
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