The editors of Transformations Journal are pleased to announce the launch
of Issue 16: "Democracy Under Fire: the Uses and Abuses of Democracy in the
Public Sphere."

This issue of Transformations is online here:

http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_16/editorial.shtml

This issue of Transformations concerns the idea of democracy and its uses
and abuses in various contexts of public debate and analysis. Democracy is
always more than an idea expressing the core values of liberty, equality
and fraternity. It is also a discursive concept: a product of the way
meaning is circulated, practiced, structured and embodied in human action
and thought. Democracy is, if you like, a rhetorical figure in a broader
set of strategies related to power and its capacity to organize, maintain
and reproduce belief systems. As such, democracy is both an ideal held
forth as something towards which we should aim or which we should defend,
and at the same time, a signifier in a strategy of power in which the
stakes are always reducible to sectional interests of various kinds.

>>>CONTENTS<<<

"The War on English: An Answer to the Question, What is Postmodernism?"
Niall Lucy & Steve Mickler

"Democratic Hospitalities: national borders and the impossibility of the
other for democracy"
Elaine Kelly

"Democracy of the Civil Dead: The Blind Trade in Citizenship"
Terry Eyssens

"Judith Butler, Gender, Radical Democracy: What’s Lacking?"
Julie MacKenzie

"Democracy Now! Decolonising US News Media"
Kevin Howley

"GetUp! for what? Issues Driven Democracy in a Transforming Public Sphere"
Henk Huijser & Janine Little

"“Oriental Despotism” and the Democratisation of Iraq in The Australian"
Benjamin Isakhan

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The Transformations Journal is dedicated to the exploration of ideas,
issues and debates emerging out of contemporary global culture.
Transformations seeks to publish new writing that addresses the
transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that
change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a
contemporary and historical sense.

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