Cirrus@Austlit

'The following papers were first presented in December 2012 at the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference on ‘Materialities: Economies, Empiricism and Things’, hosted by the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. The theme for the conference was based on a renewed interest in questions of materiality, linking back to a long materialist tradition in Cultural Studies, and in methodological questions about how Cultural Studies should approach and understand cultural objects, institutions and practices. The renewal of this interest in the last 10 years has been furthered by attention to how human and non-human interactions are being transformed in a time of global economic and environmental change.' (Editorial introduction)