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Occasional Paper Series - latest paper
The latest paper in the Occasional Paper Series is:
- Dr Jay Scherer (University of Alberta, Canada) Crises of Capitalism and Deficits of Democracy: Lessons from Vancouver’s Olympic Village Development. ( PDF, 420.48 KB)
For the full list of papers see the Occasional Paper Series page.
New books
Transnational Student-Migrants and the State: The Education-Migration Nexus
by Dr Shanthi Robertson
The boundaries around the categories of student, migrant and worker have become increasingly fuzzy, as international students are often engaged not just in education, but in high stakes and expensive journeys towards gaining permanent migration status. This book unpacks the social and political consequences of this education-migration nexus, the uneasy intersection between international education and skilled migration policies that has developed in many Western migrant receiving nations. The book shows how the nexus has given rise to a new and unique form of transnational migrant: the student-migrant.
The book examines student-migrants in terms of their transnationalism and in terms of their relationship to the state, and provides a detailed overview of policy development in concert with an analysis of student-migrant lived experience. In doing so, it paints a vivid picture of how the macro-politics of state policy intersect with the micro-politics of migrants' transnational social practices.
For more information on this book see the Palgrave Macmillan website (opens in a new window).
Making Culture, Changing Society,
by Professor Tony Bennett
Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a historically distinctive ensemble of cultural institutions, it considers the diverse ways in which culture has been produced and mobilised as a resource for governing populations.
These concerns are illustrated in detailed case studies of how anthropological conceptions of the relations between race and culture have shaped – and been shaped by – the relationships between museums, fieldwork and governmental programmes in early twentieth-century France and Australia. These are complemented by a closely argued account of the relations between aesthetics and governance that, in contrast to conventional approaches, interprets the historical emergence of the autonomy of the aesthetic as vastly expanding the range of art’s social uses.
In pursuing these concerns, particular attention is given to the role that the cultural disciplines have played in making up and distributing the freedoms through which modern forms of liberal government operate. An examination of the place that has been accorded habit as a route into the regulation of conduct within liberal social, cultural and political thought brings these questions into sharp focus. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history, art history and cultural policy studies.
For more information on this book see the Routledge website (opens in a new window).
Journal editors
ICS members are editors of journals including the Journal of Cultural Economy; Global Media Journal - Australian Edition; Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies; Media, Culture and Society; and Historic Environment....Read more.
