Third
annual conference
Center
for Culture-centered Approach to Research & Evaluation (CARE)
School
of Communication, Journalism & Marketing
Massey
University
May
15-17, 2020
Palmerston
North, New Zealand
Culture
as radical transformation
In
its third annual conference and the first to be held at Massey University in
Palmerston North, the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research &
Evaluation (CARE) invites dialogues and conversations on the active work of
imagining culture as a site for radical transformations. Interrogating the
interplays of racism, imperialism, and capitalist extraction, the conference
invites critical interrogations of the incorporation of culture into hegemonic
articulations of neoliberal growth and suppression of democratic voices.
Juxtaposed in the backdrop of these critical interrogations, we then seek
conversations in spaces of activism, social movements, and academe that
radically re-imagine culture in an actively socialist politics anchored in the
commitments to democracy, equality, and social justice. The conference seeks
activist interventions, artistic performances, installations, 360 degree
campaigns, films, workshops, manuscripts, and panels addressing the question of
culture as a site of radical transformation. In the tradition of past CARE
conferences, the “Culture as radical transformation” conference materials will
be digitally archived, contribute to concept papers, and edited in the form of
a book collection.
More
details to follow.