tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29292494573962206742024-03-14T08:04:51.569+13:00COUNTERFUTURESleft thought and practice aotearoaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15346849897080272339noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929249457396220674.post-52591969030118957482016-02-29T19:57:00.001+13:002016-02-29T19:57:25.493+13:00New website, and journal launching soon!Counterfutures has a new website: <a href="http://counterfutures.nz/">http://counterfutures.nz</a>.<br />
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You can pre-order or subscribe there, and articles will become available to read over time. The first issue will be available in March.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15346849897080272339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929249457396220674.post-27019903638403723172016-02-15T12:18:00.001+13:002016-02-15T12:18:53.810+13:00Issue one and new website coming soonWatch this space for issue one of Counterfutures, as well as a link to our new website—coming in the next few weeks.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15346849897080272339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929249457396220674.post-71402330936207995882016-02-15T12:14:00.002+13:002016-02-15T12:14:45.097+13:00Call for papers, issue twoGeneral submissions are invited for issue two of Counterfutures.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Essays, articles, polemics, interviews and reviews are now sought for issue one of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Counterfutures:
Left Thought and Practice Aotearoa</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, to be published in February 2016. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Counterfutures</i> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">hopes to
provide a single meeting point for Left thinking and debate in Aotearoa New Zealand. It will combine
perspectives from activists, intellectuals, researchers and writers situated both inside and outside
university circles.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For issue one of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Counterfutures</i> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">we invite responses to the topic of ‘<b>Connections</b>’. While it is true that
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">the globe is vastly interconnected, this state of interconnection coexists with profound barriers and
disconnects </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">between rich and poor, debtor and creditor, ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ nations, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and
distances between those of differing ethnic, class, gender, and sexual identities. The emblem of
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">‘connection’ remains a potent one for the reimagining and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">reoccupying of the Commons. In this cusp
between new forms of connection and enduring patterns of disconnection, where does the Left stand?
Are different Left fractions disconnected from one another to such a degree so as to render the act of
recreating the Commons impossible? What now is th</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">e relationship between the Left and ‘the people’,
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">or with other classes or constituencies that it might hope to engage? Where is the Left now positioned
relative to the horizon of institutional politics, here in Aotearoa New Zealand and in the wider world?
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We seek pieces that address the topic in one of (at least) four ways:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How can we draw a map of the connections as they stand in society, either as facts or
possibilities? These might be connections between the dominant forces and institutions, or
between spheres that are normally considered in isolation: culture, economics, politics and
ecology. What connections can be mapped within Aotearoa, and how is Aotearoa connected
to the wider world? Can we trace the connections between state and capital, and between
actors within those spaces? What connections exist between different oppositional groups?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What new strategic connections and subjectivities might be forged between different groups,
agents and sites of Left struggle and organisation? What alliances could be formed to enable
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">greater impact, and what links are best severed? Do we seek to connect ‘old’ and ‘new’ Lefts,
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">parliamentary and extra-</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">parliamentary oppositions, ‘revolutionary’ and ‘reformist’ forces,
Māori movements and movements based on ‘European’ theory, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">social movements and
academic Leftists, class-based and (other) identity-based movements? If so, how?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">How can we connect our current activities to the struggles, successes and failures of past
movements? What can we learn </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">from the experiences of (for example) workers’, Māori,
environmental or women’s movements in the past? Which of their issues and strategies have
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">relevance for us still? Are we living in an entirely new moment?</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What connections might be imagined between our present moment and its possible
counterfutures? What next steps do those connections imply? Do we embrace the
technologies and challenges of the interconnected world, or do we hope instead to delink from
it in an attempt at separation or self-determination?</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Papers, essays, interviews and polemics should be sent by 18 September 2015 to
<a href="mailto:counterfutures@gmail.com">counterfutures@gmail.com</a>. Contributions may, but need not, follow the conventions of academic
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