<nettime-ann> CFP: M/C Journal 'country' Issue

["M/C - Media and Culture" <mc@media-culture.org.au>]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 June 2008

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
           is calling for contributors to the 'country' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal. In 2008, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth anniversary.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains
all the issues released so far, at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>. 

                        Call for Papers: 'country'
                      Edited by Andrew Gorman-Murray

'Country' is a word that is made to do much discursive work.

'Country' is synonymous with 'rural', also evinced through terms like
countryside and country-minded. But what is the relationship between
'country' and 'rural'? Are there nuanced differences? Where and how do they
overlap? At the same time, 'country' is synonymous with 'nation'. This
usage seems to be more emotive than administrative, as in 'my country', 'my
land', 'my homeland'. Country evokes something of the connection between
people, landscape and belonging as much as any sense of national
allegiance. Moreover, country-as-rural and country-as-nation have
significant overlaps, especially when the rural is often imagined as the
'heartland' of the modern nation-state - a source of national identity and
a storehouse for values lost through the experience of progress and
modernity. Here, the country is a traditional material and discursive site
for family, community and well-being. From yet another angle, country
becomes a genre or style, as in country music, country and western film,
country living, country comfort and country cooking. In this way, country
becomes a commercial selling point, a commodified imaginary. This
commodification is also seen in the recent revaluing of country getaways
and retreats, sea-change and tree-change, which in turn invokes the notion
of country as a store of traditional values, moral restoration and physical
revitalisation.

This issue of M/C Journal seeks submissions which respond to these prompts,
exploring aspects of the different, multifaceted and overlapping discourses
of 'country', and how these have changed (and continue to change) over time
and between places. 

Submit papers of 3,000 words in length to the editors at
country@journal.media-culture.org.au.

Article deadline:     22 Aug. 2008
Issue release date:   22 Oct. 2008

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998
as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting
of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C
Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for
comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind
peer-reviewed.

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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2008 and 2009:

'country': article deadline 22 August 2008,  release date 22 October 2008
'recover': article deadline 10 October 2008, release date 10 December 2008
'still':   article deadline 16 January 2009, release date 11 March 2009
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M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.
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M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there.
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                                                     Dr Axel Bruns

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 General Editor                              editor@media-culture.org.au
 M/C - Media and Culture                http://www.media-culture.org.au/
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