Borderlands e-journal
Special Issue: The National Museum of Australia
Editor: Gregory McCarthy
In keeping with the intention of the Borderlands e-journal this is a
call for paper on the issue of the National Museum of Australia. The
aim is to explore the politics, architectural, social, indigenous and
cultural implications of the debate over the National Museum of
Australia. Since, the museum has entered the post-colonial debate over
Australian national identity and the indigenous memory there has been a
variety of responses to the controversy over its architecture,
collection, curatorial policies, and specific direction. The debate
over the museum, especially following the Carroll Report into the
institution and the subsequent failure to reappoint its director Dawn
Casey, opened up a significant range of borderland questions and fields
of inquiry. This issue is calling for papers that explore these
borders, at the very least between the "black armband view" of
Australian history and the "white triumphalism" at the
theoretical/political heart of the controversy over the museum. But more
than this politico-historico-cultural contestation is the question of
national memory and the concomitant debate over genocide and its
particular and peculiar manifestation in Australia. It is also a broader
concern over the borders between policing the culture (a la Stuart Hall)
and the discourses and technologies (Foucault's governmentality) that
discipline cultural policy.
In putting together this issue I and the editorial board are keen to
publish critical appraisals of the National Museum of Australia and the
controversy surrounding its place in Australian society. We are aware
that the dispute may evoke comparisons with similar museums (e.g. the
Smithsonian Institution) and therefore encourage contributors,
conversant with such matters, to submit essays so they may present
insights into international border conflicts. Likewise debates over
official history challenge the border between modernity and postmodern
sensibilities and contributors might want to tackle the museum issue
from such an epistemological perspective.
The Deadline for articles is 17 May 2004, so that they may be refereed
for publication in a special July 2004 issue. Contributors should
consult the guidelines of the journal, at:
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/guidelines/index.html
All inquiries and essays should be sent to Dr Greg McCarthy, email
gregory.mccarthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or telephone on (08) 8303 5607
Special Issue Editor
Dr Greg McCarthy
Politics Discipline
School of history and Politics
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
University of Adelaide
Adelaide 5005
_______________________________________________________________
Dr. Anthony Burke
Lecturer in International Relations
School of History and Politics
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Adelaide SA 5005 Australia
ph. 61 8 8303 5603 fax. 61 8 8303 3446
email: a.burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Publisher/Managing Editor
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http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/
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Dr. David McInerney
review editor
Borderlands e-journal
www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au
Special Issue: The National Museum of Australia
Editor: Gregory McCarthy
In keeping with the intention of the Borderlands e-journal this is a
call for paper on the issue of the National Museum of Australia. The
aim is to explore the politics, architectural, social, indigenous and
cultural implications of the debate over the National Museum of
Australia. Since, the museum has entered the post-colonial debate over
Australian national identity and the indigenous memory there has been a
variety of responses to the controversy over its architecture,
collection, curatorial policies, and specific direction. The debate
over the museum, especially following the Carroll Report into the
institution and the subsequent failure to reappoint its director Dawn
Casey, opened up a significant range of borderland questions and fields
of inquiry. This issue is calling for papers that explore these
borders, at the very least between the "black armband view" of
Australian history and the "white triumphalism" at the
theoretical/political heart of the controversy over the museum. But more
than this politico-historico-cultural contestation is the question of
national memory and the concomitant debate over genocide and its
particular and peculiar manifestation in Australia. It is also a broader
concern over the borders between policing the culture (a la Stuart Hall)
and the discourses and technologies (Foucault's governmentality) that
discipline cultural policy.
In putting together this issue I and the editorial board are keen to
publish critical appraisals of the National Museum of Australia and the
controversy surrounding its place in Australian society. We are aware
that the dispute may evoke comparisons with similar museums (e.g. the
Smithsonian Institution) and therefore encourage contributors,
conversant with such matters, to submit essays so they may present
insights into international border conflicts. Likewise debates over
official history challenge the border between modernity and postmodern
sensibilities and contributors might want to tackle the museum issue
from such an epistemological perspective.
The Deadline for articles is 17 May 2004, so that they may be refereed
for publication in a special July 2004 issue. Contributors should
consult the guidelines of the journal, at:
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/guidelines/index.html
All inquiries and essays should be sent to Dr Greg McCarthy, email
gregory.mccarthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or telephone on (08) 8303 5607
Special Issue Editor
Dr Greg McCarthy
Politics Discipline
School of history and Politics
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
University of Adelaide
Adelaide 5005
_______________________________________________________________
Dr. Anthony Burke
Lecturer in International Relations
School of History and Politics
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Adelaide SA 5005 Australia
ph. 61 8 8303 5603 fax. 61 8 8303 3446
email: a.burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Publisher/Managing Editor
::: borderlands ejournal :::
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/
email: borderlands@xxxxxxxxx
CRICOS Provider Number 00123M
-----------------------------------------------------------
Dr. David McInerney
review editor
Borderlands e-journal
www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au