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-----Original Message----- From: Axel Bruns [mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au] Sent: Monday, 11 August 2014 9:44 To: Axel Bruns Subject: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'counterculture' Issue

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11 Aug. 2014 M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'counterculture' issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions. Call for Papers: 'counterculture' Edited by Rob Garbutt, Jacqueline Dutton, and Johanna Kijas The seeds of the global counterculture sprouted in the 1960s, flourished into the 1970s and for some the counterculture continues to frame their daily lives. Its challenge to the functionalist culture characterised by formal education, career, marriage and mortgage yielded a range of experiments, some failures and short-lived and others long-lasting and now almost mainstream. Whatever the outcome, the intent was not one possible future for one's life but a future of possibilities, along with a commitment to social and environmental sustainability. The counterculture was, therefore, intensely biopolitical in the sense that it was and is a politics of life, one's own life and life on planet earth more generally. The counterculture was also contested from the beginning. The "counter" has been absorbed into consumer culture and commodified with ease. The love of transgression often saw the politics of power-relations overlooked. And despite being "counter", a relationship with the "mainstream" has always been necessary. In the 1970s and 80s, the counterculture was alive in academic discussions, but recently it has been relatively dormant. This issue is designed to stimulate reflection and discussion of the counterculture in Australia and beyond. Areas of investigation may include, but are not limited to: * indigenous peoples and the counterculture * urban and rural countercultures * countercultural festivals * back to the land movements * utopian experiments * media and the counterculture * alternative: food, medicine, energy, architecture, childbirth, spirituality, sexuality, lifestyles … * the mainstream and the counterculture * contemporary manifestations of the counterculture * intentional communities * the counterculture and consumption * competition, cooperation and the counterculture * global and peripheral countercultures * the "counter" in counterculture * the counterculture and environmental movements * hippies Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition). Please send any enquiries to counterculture@journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site. Article deadline: 10 Oct. 2014 Issue release date: 10 Dec. 2014 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2014: 'gothic': article deadline 20 June 2014, release date 20 Aug. 2014 'illegitimate': article deadline 15 Aug. 2014, release date 15 Oct. 2014 'counterculture': article deadline 10 Oct. 2014, release date 10 Dec. 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- end Dr Axel Bruns -- General Editor editor@media-culture.org.au M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/