[Reader-list] Call for Papers- IP and Ethics

[Lawrence Liang]

Call for papers
 
POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
ISSN 1478-2103
Published by Symposium
 
Special issue on Intellectual Property: Issues and Ethics
 
Cushla Kapitzke & Michael A. Peters
 
Policy Futures in Education is an international, peer-reviewed online-only
journal that is committed to promoting debate on education among policy
analysts, researchers, and practitioners from national and international
forums, including members of policy think-tanks and world policy agencies
such as the WTO, OECD, and the European Union.
 
We are proposing a themed issue of PFIE to address developments in the
burgeoning field of intellectual property (IP). The aim of the issue,
³Intellectual Property: Issues and Ethics,² is to open a space for dialogue
on global intellectual property agreements and laws that are framing
standards of cultural and textual practice for the knowledge economy.
Positively valenced discourses of innovation and creativity are used by
government, business, and educational sectors alike to justify increasingly
powerful regimes for the commodification of cultural activity. This issue of
PFIE seeks to appraise and trouble some of this upbeat, one-dimensional
rhetoric. For example, the concept of universal ³moral rights² and rules‹a
product of western epistemology‹has significant social and economic
implications for indigenous knowledges and cultures of majority world
nations, some of whom have different understandings of intellectual and
community capital than those assumed and promoted by IP regimes. Adequate
access to cultural resources‹their own and others‹is crucial for the
developing world¹s entry and participation in the global economy. The
proposed issue seeks to enhance understanding of tensions, contradictions,
and disparities associated with developments in IP theory and practice
across a range of social and cultural domains.
  
Contributions are invited for academic articles (6000 words), policy
reports, reviews (1000 words maximum), and interviews from those seeking to
participate in these debates. Critical theoretical and empirical accounts of
opportunities and challenges that have practical local and/or global
application are encouraged. Articles published will cover a wide range of
topics highlighting the implications of IP for educational practice.
 
We anticipate that papers will draw from any combination of the following
IP-related areas:
 
* Global agencies and agreements (e.g., TRIPS, WIPO)
* Copyright law 
* Rethinking the autonomy and authority of authorship
* Property and/or Privacy
* Indigenous cultures and IP
* Culture after capital
* The state, public policy and governmentality
* Neoliberalism and the public domain
* Free trade agreements
* The Creative Commons
* Piracy through and on the digital waves
* Dispossession and symbolic cultural violence
* Cultural oligarchy, anarchy and democracy
* Open source and hacker culture
 
Abstracts are due 30 June and manuscripts by 30 November.
 
Manuscripts should be submitted as email attachments in RTF (Rich Text
Format), but any major word-processor is acceptable. Further contributor
information can be found on the journal¹s website at
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/index.html.
 
Please forward your abstracts or queries to Cushla Kapitzke - School of
Education, University of Queensland, Australia (c.kapitzke at uq.edu.au)
 
Editor - Professor Michael A. Peters, Universities of Glasgow, Scotland and
Auckland, New Zealand (m.peters at educ.gla.ac.uk or ma.peters at auckland.ac.nz)
 
 
 


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