CFP: Bad Subjects - Iraq War Culture

[Doug Henwood]

>BAD SUBJECTS
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>Emergency Call for Papers:  Iraq War Culture
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>Bad Subjects <http://eserver.org/bs> calls for essays for an Extra 
>Bad! issue on the culture of the Iraq War.  This is an unscheduled 
>issue that responds to the immediate US invasion of Iraq and the 
>massive global anti-war movement in opposition.  The deadline for 
>draft essays will be Friday, April 4 and the issue will appear on 
>Monday, April 7, 2003.
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>We will be especially interested in essays that report and analyze 
>global anti-war protests; global challenges to US political and 
>cultural hegemonism; anti-Americanism, anti-imperialism and 
>anti-globalization; the effects of the Iraq War and counter-protests 
>on US culture and its international marketing; comparative historic 
>American violences and their manifestations in the current war; 
>critiques of mutually reinforcing religious and military cultures in 
>the United States; political repression and loss of civil rights, in 
>the US and globally; the rise of Homeland Security ideologies; mass 
>communication and the commodification of social fear; CNN and the 
>high-tech battlefield; representation of Arab peoples; cultural and 
>artistic responses to the war; and the Dixie Chicks story.
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>The issue editors welcome a diverse international range of 
>perspectives, and will review and publish Spanish, French, German or 
>Portuguese submissions in the original (200-250 word English summary 
>requested).  Send Word attachments with full texts only - no 
>abstracts or queries - to <Joe.Lockard at asu.edu>.  Bad Subjects 
>essays typically run 2000-3500 words and employ accessible language.