[artinfo] CULTURAL POLITICS - NEW SPECIAL ISSUE - JUST TARGETS

[J Armitage]

CULTURAL POLITICS

VOLUME 02

ISSUE 01

MARCH 2006

SPECIAL ISSUE: JUST TARGETS

GUEST EDITORS

RYAN BISHOP, GREGORY CLANCEY AND JOHN PHILLIPS

National University of Singapore

The guest editors of this special issue of Cultural Politics on 'Just
Targets' argue that targeting, in several interrelated and specified
senses, must be regarded as intrinsic to urban processes, and that with
intensifications of  these processes during the last 150 years or so,
issues of targeting and questions of the just in relation to cities have become
increasingly urgent.  With growing concerns about urban war, crime and
terrorism, on the one hand, and urban government, administration and
policies, on the other, the connection between targeting and justice is
more fraught than ever.  This special issue examines the nature of the urban
ensemble as a network of material and ideal relations that must
perpetually negotiate new relations (of justice and targeting) with 
its outlaws, its
misfits and criminals.  Exploring an emergent geopolitics of urban
processes, looking at the need for new paradigms but also at the
requirements of a deep historicity that helps to determine the present,
both the editors and the contributors to the issue analyze the paradoxes
inherent in targeting as they began to emerge from World War I onwards, and
question distinctions between war and urban society, acknowledging, as we must,
the increasing militarization of the latter. This special issue of Cultural
Politics on 'Just Targets' thus contributes to a gathering intellectual
engagement with issues of justice and the modes of targeting that
characterize the 21st century city.

ABOUT CULTURAL POLITICS

Cultural Politics (ISSN: 1743-2197) is published three times a year in
March, July and November. The first issue was published in March 2005.

Edited by John Armitage, University of Northumbria, and Douglas Kellner,
University of California at Los Angeles, and Ryan Bishop, National
University of Singapore, Singapore.

Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores
the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics.
Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics 
and what is
political about culture. Publishing across the Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political
positions, cultural approaches and geographical locations.

Cultural Politics publishes work that analyses how cultural
identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and
global media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved. In so doing, the
journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic,
marginalised or unexplored regions of cultural politics.

Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary
coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies,
emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and 
elucidate analyses
of political power. The journal invites articles on: representation and
visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film and communications;