Online resources for Australian Cultural Studies 澳洲文化研究聯繫網 　 Fran Martin, University of Melbourne©版權所有 f.martin@unimelb.edu.au 　 What is Cultural Studies in Australia? Introduction by Fran Martin It's by now a commonplace to say that Cultural Studies resists definition. Is it a formal discipline in its own right, or is it inherently anti-disciplinary? If it is a discipline, then what distinctive modes of analysis does it employ? And what defines its object of study? Does it have most in common with literary and film studies; media and communications studies; historical scholarship; the social sciences? What is its relationship to the broader public sphere: can it effectively intervene in current debates on the politics of culture? Or is it just an academic pursuit that takes contemporary culture as an object of study? Cultural Studies in Australia remains a contested site, making it impossible to give final answers to those questions. Rather than trying to provide a definitive account of "Cultural Studies in Australia," I'm offering the list of links below as a kind of shifting, idiosyncratic map of some key sites in Australian Cultural Studies today. Links and references are provided in Section 1, below, to some useful introductory essays on Australian Cultural Studies by Tony Bennett, Meaghan Morris, John Frow, and others that address the above questions and others in some detail. Issues tackled by writers in Cultural Studies in Australia include contested definitions of "national culture;" rethinking the nation's colonial histories and presents; the cultural politics of Aboriginality; multiculturalism; cultural globalisation and Australia's relationship with "Asia" (in these areas, Australian work shares many concerns with recent work in Taiwan Cultural Studies); as well as cultural policy; the politics of sexuality; cultural consumption and the everyday; contesting feminisms; youth cultures and public culture; and local and regional cultural production in fiction, film, and television cultures. I hope that in mapping their own route through the links below, users of this site will get a sense of how current Australian work addressing these issues and others coalesces to form a dynamic field of ongoing enquiry and critique. As the list below makes clear, though, one thing that can be said with some certainty is that Cultural Studies in Australia has become increasingly institutionalised over recent years. Undergraduate and graduate programs have been established at many of the major universities, as have two research centres funded by the Australian Research Council, the national academic funding body (the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University). But while there is an increasing number of courses, departments and centres with the term "Cultural Studies" in their titles, it's also true that the parameters of this proto-discipline are more elastic than most and it continues to be defined by a productive interdisciplinarity. I hope this site might contribute to establishing ongoing dialogues between Cultural Studies movements in Australia and Taiwan, since the two movements share many concerns in relation to local and regional contemporary cultures. In both places, Cultural Studies is faced with the imperative of re-thinking culture in the context of the rapid transformations of cultural globalisation. More specifically, the cultural politics of Asia-Pacific regionalism is a central concern in both Australia and Taiwan, as are questions about indigeneity; postcoloniality and the nation; and the emergence and development of feminisms and oppositional sexual politics. No doubt, a whole host of other issues is yet to emerge as a site for dialogue between these two geographically proximate, yet hitherto weirdly distant locations. 　 Links to writing online by some prominent Australian writers in cultural studies: Tony Bennett, "Knowing Ourselves and Others: The Humanities in Australia into the 21st Century"  A thorough introduction to and reflection on the situation of cultural studies in Australia, including sections on: The Disciplinary Status of Cultural Studies  Cultural Studies: Defining Characteristics  Distinguishing Characteristics of Australian Cultural Studies  Institutional Futures http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/aah/research/review/b8_bennett.html Meaghan Morris, "Banality in Cultural Studies"  An influential essay reflecting on Australian culture and Australian cultural studies in the late 1980s. Published in Block #14, 1988. http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de/haus.0/SCRIPT/txt1999/11/Morrise.HTML Mark Davis, personal website of this Australian writer on youth issues, popular culture and the media.  Includes links to Davis' writing online. http://www.renewal.org.au/markdavis/ McKenzie Wark, "Custodians of the Future"  A presentation on the current situation and future of Australian universities, particularly in relation to humanities scholarship. Presented at the University of South Australia, 27 October 1998. http://www.unisa.edu.au/newsinfo/lecture/wark_lecture.htm See also these critical introductions to Australian cultural studies (not available online):  John Frow and Meaghan Morris, "Introduction" in Frow and Morris (eds) Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1993, or John Frow and Meaghan Morris, "Australian Cultural Studies," in John Storey (ed.) What is cultural studies? A reader, London; New York: Arnold, 1996. Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA)  The CSAA is Australia's professional Cultural Studies association, founded in 1990. The Association holds annual conferences, publishes a newsletter, and supports the journal Continuum (see Journals section, below). CSAA website: http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/CSAA/ Announcements section includes: Conferences; jobs; CFP for journals & books; research grants Resources section includes: journals; Australian centres; courses; research resources; links to other CS sites. Issues section includes: Informal discussion of issues relevant to CS in Australia CSAA 2001 conference -- What's Left of Theory? University of Tasmania, Hobart December 8-10 2001 Keynote speaker: Fredric Jameson. The Deadline for abstracts is July 20 2001. Please contact Ian Buchanan, School of English and European Languages and Literatures, The University of Tasmania. I.Buchanan@utas.edu.au Journals  These are some of the Australian journals that specialise in or regularly feature articles in Cultural Studies. Some of these are online journals; others are traditional format publications with websites including information on the journal and details about subscription.  AntiTHESIS Postgraduate interdisciplinary journal of contemporary theory, criticism and culture, English Department, University of Melbourne. http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/anti.htm Arena Journal http://www.arena.org.au/arenajournal.htm Australian Humanities Review  http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/ The site includes: The Good Oil: Conferences and Calls for Papers http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/goodo/home.html Emuse: A moderated discussion forum on current issues http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/emuse/home.html Australian Journal of Cultural Studies http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/serial/AJCS/AJCSindex.html Communal/Plural: Journal of Transnational & Cross-Cultural Studies University of Western Sydney, School of Cultural Histories and Futures http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/frameloader.html? http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13207873.html Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Affiliated with the Cultural Studies Association of Australia Department of Media Studies, Edith Cowan University Continuum webpage: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/frameloader.html?http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10304312.html Back issues (Volumes 1 - 8) online at http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/continuum2.html Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context School of Asian Studies, Murdoch University http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/ Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies History Department, University of Western Australia http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/HistoryWWW/limina/index.html M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture Media and Cultural Studies Centre, University of Queensland  http://moby.curtin.edu.au/~ausstud/mc/ Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/MIACP.html Meanjin http://www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au/ Screening the Past Journal of visual media and history, La Trobe University http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/ Social Semiotics http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/frameloader.html?http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10350330.html Southern Review School of Humanities, Communications, and Social Sciences, Monash University http://www-mugc.cc.monash.edu.au/gss/newsite/masscom/southern.htm Strewth magazine "a new paper that declares war on the puffed-up and pompous pundits of the press" http://www.strewth.org.au/ UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing  University of Technology, Sydney  http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/review/review.html Cultural Studies Teaching and Research  Below is a state-by-state list of departments, programs and research centres that teach and support research in Cultural Studies and related areas, across both undergraduate and graduate levels. AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/ Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ Cultural and Critical Studies Program, Australian National University http://www.anu.edu.au/ccs/ NEW SOUTH WALES Institute for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Nepean http://icr.uws.edu.au/about/about.html Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney, Nepean  The RCIS was incorporated into the Institute for Cultural Research in 2001. This site remains as an archive of the RCIS' activities 1992-2001. http://www.uws.edu.au/rcis/ School of Cultural Histories and Futures, University of Western Sydney, Nepean http://www.uws.edu.au/histories/  Trans/Forming Cultures Project, University of Technology, Sydney http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/tfc_home.html Shopfront Project, University of Technology, Sydney http://www.uts.edu.au/oth/shopfront/ Centre for Research in Textual and Cultural Studies, University of Wollongong http://www.uow.edu.au/critacs/censorship/censorship.html Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong & University of Newcastle http://www.uow.edu.au/research/centres/capstrans/ Interdisciplinary Major in Cultural Studies, University of Newcastle http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/lt/cultstud.htm Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/index.htm Australian Cultural Studies Program, Southern Cross University http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/hmcs/cultural/ School of Humanities, Media and Cultural Studies, Southern Cross University http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/hmcs/ Centre for Cultural Research into Risk, Charles Sturt University http://www.csu.edu.au/research/ccrr/ QUEEENSLAND Media and Cultural Studies Centre, University of Queensland http://english.uq.edu.au/mcsc/ Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/cccs/ Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies, Queensland University of Technology http://www.arts.qut.edu.au/humn/Ccccs/ School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Griffith University http://www.gu.edu.au/school/fmc/ Literary, Drama and Cultural Studies, Central Queensland University http://www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/humanities/litstud/litstud.htm Asia and Pacific Research Centre, Central Queensland University http://www.cqu.edu.au/research/aprc/home.html Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, and The University of Queensland http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/ SOUTH AUSTRALIA Cultural Studies at the University of Adelaide http://www.adelaide.edu.au/English/cstudies.htm VICTORIA Cultural Studies Program, University of Melbourne http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/culturalstudies/index.htm Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/ Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Technology http://w2.vu.edu.au/caps/ Network Insight Research Group, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology http://www.ni.rmit.edu.au/ WESTERN AUSTRALIA School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ Centre for Research in Culture and Communication, Murdoch University http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/CRCC/CRCC.html School of Communication and Cultural Studies, Curtin University of Technology http://comcult.curtin.edu.au/ Research Institute for Cultural Heritage, Curtin University of Technology http://www.curtin.edu.au/corporate/rich/