[Discussion] UPDATE: Culture, Politics and the Future (Portugal) (9/10/04; 11/24/04-11/27/04)

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The Second International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
Beja, Portugal, Nov 24-27, 2004

New deadline for 150-word abstracts: September 10, 2004

All abstracts to be submitted through Mundiconvenius:
http://www.mundiconvenius.pt/2004/culture/default.htm

Themed session:
CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE FUTURE

Session organiser:
Ana Isabel Lopes (anilopes@clix.pt)

At the beginning of the 21st century, we are grappling with political and
economic contexts whose paradoxes are often difficult to reason out, and
which seem to hinder the task Williams set up for cultural studies in its
articulation with the experimental work developed within adult education:
=8CIn its most general bearings, this work remained a kind of intellectua=
l
analysis which wanted to change the actual developments of society=B9. Wh=
at
sort of changes can we effect when, as Bourdieu reminds us, the utopia of
neo-liberalism, turned into a political programme, has enforced a system =
of
relations of domination which, mediated by networks of rules and
regulations, escapes =8Cthe grasp of individual consciousness=B9? What ar=
e the
mechanisms behind the dominant strategy of reducing the causes for the
workers=B9 experience of uncertainty and distress to the inexorable unfol=
ding
of the economy? How does the mapping of the politically produced relation=
s
which structure our life enable us to think the future?

This session invites reflections upon these and other issues concerning t=
he
relationship between culture, politics and modes of (re)thinking the futu=
re.


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