Reports

Annual Report 2004/05 (PDF, 1.3Mb)

Research Papers

Elizabeth B. Silva, The Politics of Consumption @ Home: Practices and Dispositions in the Uses of Technologies

Pavis Paper number 1
This paper explores the relationship of consumption to social inclusion and exclusion by looking at mundane technological practices in ordinary family homes. It argues for the need to develop a concept of "emotional capital" to deal with the capabilities of people to choose and achieve particular ideals of home life and of selfhood.

Tony Bennett, Intellectuals, Culture, Policy: The Technical, the Practical and the Critical

Pavis Paper number 2
From the vantage point of the post-Foucauldian literature on "governmentality", this paper probes the limitations of the Habermasian tradition of social theory for understanding contemporary intellectual practice, the role of institutions of public culture in the development of modern practices of cultural governance; and the roles played by the personnel of culture in managing cultural resources.

Jason Toynbee, Creating Problems: Social Authorship, Copyright and the Production of Culture

Pavis Paper number 3
Copyright - the most important form of cultural commodity - relies on the Romantic conception of individual authorship. Toynbee argues instead for a notion of social authorship, which provides "a more limited and nuanced model of creativity and hence of the property rights which might accrue to creators". The paper includes an analysis of the impacts of the internet and Napster on understandings of creativity and copyright.

Stuart Hall, The Multicultural Question

Pavis Paper number 4
For Hall, the multicultural question is "how we are to envisage the futures of those many different societies now composed of peoples from very different backgrounds, cultures, contexts, experiences and positions in the ranking order of the world; societies where difference refuses to disappear". This paper is based on Hall's October 2000 Pavis Lecture.

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