::fc-announce:: Special issue on IP for PFIE (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Cushla Kapitzke]

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, 
“Intellectual Property: Issues and Ethics,” 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 “moral rights” 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 world’s 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
 
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 journal’s 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)
 
 Cushla Kapitzke
School of Education
University of Queensland
St Lucia 4072 Australia
  Tel: 61-7-3365 6403; Mob. 0402 144466
  Fax: 61-7-3365 7199
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  Website: http://www.uq.edu.au/kapitzke