Hey Hilary, I am not particularly sure whether you are looking at Cultural Citizenship in the context of a particular socio-political context (though I find it hard to imagine how you can envision a universal category of that sort), but I recently came across a very brilliant presentation and paper by Audrey Yue (English and Cultural Studies, Melbourne University, Australia) who presented a paper on Creative Cultural Citizenship at the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Shanghai, 2007. Yue's presentation was on the queer communities in Singapore and how they negotiate with the State's imagination of Singapore as a global country, to assert cultural citizenships which were otherwise looked askance at by the law. Hope it is of some help, regards Nishant On 7/2/07, Hilary W <fluffylittlebunny@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello! Anyone study Vernacular Creativity and/or Cultural Citizenship? I need to find some texts and haven't studied in this area before, and alas, currently I am in-between Universities and do not have library access to academic journals! (The horror, the horror) I am just about to get stuck into my PhD - on yet an entirely different topic, and other than that, working in the wonders of the IT world (NB, you may have noticed a recent Irish ad. campaign). Mind is everywhere currently! However, the reason I am so interested in vernacular creativity and cultural citizenship is due to the phenomenon of Frank Warren's "Postsecret" (found here if you are not yet aware->http://postsecret.blogspot.com/). I'm looking at the transformation of the Postcard to the "Postsecret". The Postcard being a rather mundane and now outdated method of communication and cultural creativity, which in my mind, has undergone with the help of Warren's idea, a transformation to the "Postsecret" - individually created, produced and published. Any thoughts or comments? This is the second paper which I plan to present at AOIR, and with help and advice, hopefully something which many others will find interesting.

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