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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... vol. 25 no. 2 December 2019 of Cultural Studies Review est. 2002 Cultural Studies Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Movement, Helen Grace , single work prose (p. 268-270)
Nan, Shaun Pattinson , single work prose (p. 271-274)
Next, Ruth Barcan , single work prose (p. 275-277)
#notnormal, Elizabeth Stephens , single work prose (p. 278-280)
On Not Being on The Brink of The Abyss, Ghassan Hage , single work prose (p. 281-282)
The Persistence of Cultural Studies : A Brief Consideration of the Place and Purpose of Cultural Studies in an Otherwise Turbulent World, Andrew Hickey , single work prose (p. 283-285)
Persistence, Graeme Turner , single work essay
'Even though the Cultural Studies Review is now, after two iterations and many years, finally reaching the end of its career, its production teams’ commitment to serving the cultural studies community exemplifies the value of persistence. Unfortunately, its closure takes on added significance right now as it joins a worrying number of instances of institutional disinvestment in our field. Persistence seems to be running in just one direction. At its peak, Australian cultural studies had many strong local journals, it was successfully taught as a stand-alone field in a couple of dozen universities, it returned outstanding results across a range of ARC grants programs, and it became one of the most internationally engaged and respected of the humanities research fields in Australia. It even reached the point where people in other disciplines started to think there might be an advantage in pretending that they did cultural studies, too. We had mixed feelings about this, of course. While it provided welcome evidence of our influence and visibility, it also had the ironic consequence of tempting some of those who strongly identified with the field to engage in precisely the kind of boundary policing that had made cultural studies necessary in the first place. Nonetheless, for at least twenty years from the late 1980s, Australian cultural studies was that rare thing—a field of critical teaching and research in the humanities that prospered in what were, in general, difficult times for the humanities disciplines in Australia.' (Introduction)
(p. 286-287)
Persistence Kung Fu, Meaghan Morris , single work essay (p. 288-289)
Partial Faith and the Postsecular, Amanda Lohrey , single work essay
'A few years back, as part of my interest in what does or doesn’t constitute new writing I became interested in the notion of the postsecular, prompted in large part by John A McClure’s, Partial Faiths, Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (2007). McClure argues for the recent emergence of stories about ‘new forms of religiously inflected seeing and being’ and he distinguishes the postsecular from the postmodern as being characterised by an openeness to the transcendant in newly imagined forms that are provisional and imbued with mystery, a sense of the world as an ‘inexorable excess of being over structures of interpretation and identity’. A postsecular narrative is characterised by ‘unstable hybridity and ontological abundance’ along with ‘the interpenetration of multirealisms’. Sound busy? It is, as any reader of Pynchon will attest.' 

(Introduction)

(p. 290-292)
Quotidian : Just Another Casual Saturday, Mridula Nath Chakraborty , single work prose (p. 293-295)
Disruption, Mridula Nath Chakraborty , single work essay (p. 296-299)
Rain, Kate Wright , single work prose (p. 300-302)
Second Language, Maria Tumarkin , single work prose (p. 303-304)
Sin, Tony Birch , single work (p. 305-306)
Swimming-Glancing, Penelope Rossiter , single work essay (p. 307-310)
Against Western Civilisation, Fiona Nicoll , single work essay
'Knowledge is currently being shaped by the tension between two powerful forces. On one hand, we see intense competition within global markets by post-secondary education and research providers, served by corporate academic publishers and data-analytic services such as academia.edu and Google scholar. On the other hand, universities are being shaped at a local level by political movements of nationalism, white supremacism and protectionism. Transnational solidarities appealed to and produced by these movements are sometimes referred to as ‘the Anglo Sphere’, and its members are charged with the mission of protecting and promoting the values of ‘western civilization’.' (Introduction)
(p. 311-313)
Worktime, Barbara Baird , single work prose (p. 314-316)
Yes, Lucy Tatman , single work (p. 317-318)
Accidental Elder, Guy Davidson , single work review
— Review of Unrequited Love : Diary of an Accidental Activist Dennis Altman , 2019 single work autobiography ;
'The unrequited love foregrounded in the title of Dennis Altman’s memoir refers to his attachment to the United States, an attachment that in some ways reflects the postwar relationship between Australia and what until recently we were calling ‘the world’s remaining superpower’. Altman’s recollection of his and, more generally, Australia’s unreciprocated passion for the US stays true to his longheld conviction that the recording of personal experience should incorporate political analysis and vice versa. Altman’s interests rove far beyond this not-so-special special relationship, however, gathering up multiple manifestations of the global and local sexual politics with which his name is now associated. Altman became involved in the gay liberation movement while living and studying in New York in the early 1970s and his Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation (1971) was one of the most sophisticated accounts to emerge from that movement. A long and celebrated career as an academic, writer, and activist in gay politics and AIDS organizing followed. Altman’s books have mainly continued his interest in sexual politics and include The Homosexualization of America (1982), AIDS in the Mind of America (1986), Global Sex (2001), and The End of the Homosexual? (2013). He has also published on the more ‘general’ Australian political scene, including a previous book 51st State? (2006) that also tackled the relationship between Australia and the US. A regular contributor to venues such as The Conversation and ABC Radio, Altman remains one of Australia’s most consistently insightful and interesting political commentators.' (Introduction)
(p. 319-322)
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