[Discussion] [Fwd: CFP: Theory's Others (12/31/02; journal issue)]

[Gonul Pultar]

Rhizomes #7 Fall 2003
> SPECIAL ISSUE OF RHIZOMES: CULTURAL STUDIES IN EMERGING KNOWLEDGE
> www.rhizomes.net
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> "Theory's Others"  Carol Siegel, ed
> 
> Theorists must exclude some possibilities in order to give
> coherence to ideas used to account for social and cultural
> structures, to explain behavioral patterns, to describe fantasies
> and desires. Groups of assumptions that are not in apparent contradiction
> provide foundations for theorizing.  Trends in thought solidify specific
> sets of assumptions with proven explanatory power into standard approaches,
> which,in turn, are assigned hierarchic positions in the body of
> philosophical writings called "theory." And so truth is constructed. This
> familiar process depends upon suppressing, ignoring, or discrediting other,
> perhaps potentially equally useful, ideas and approaches.
> 
> This special issue of will provide access to some modes of analysis othered
> by the paradigms that dominate specific academic disciplines under the name
> of "theory."
> 
> Send hard copy essays to:
> Carol Siegel
> Washington State University-Vancouver
> 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave.
> Vancouver, WA 98686-9600
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> Send email attachment, html/web pages to eberry@bgnet.bgsu.edu
> 
> Abstracts by December 2002
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