«Neighbor: Social and Political Encounters in the Imperial Context»: Call for Papers, "Ab Imperio" № 3/2010
• ПРИГЛАШЕНИЕ АВТОРОВ / CALL FOR PAPERS •
"Ab Imperio Quartery: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space," affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, invites qualified authors to contribute to the journal's autumn issue 3-2010.
The topic of the issue: "Neighbor: Social and Political Encounters in the Imperial Context".
The Editors will be glad to consider proposals from scholars whose research interests touch upon some of (but not neccessary limited to) the following thematic areas and problems:
Is a neutral “neighbor” possible between the extremities of “friendship” and “animosity?” ● When does a “neighbor” become an “enemy?” ● The friend as intermediary: the role of southern Russian orthodox clergy in Petrine reforms ● Germans in the Russian Empire ● national elites integrated in imperial governance ● multiple situations of the borderlands ● Finland: archetypical neighbor ● colonization as forced “neighbor-hood:” perceptions of other cultures in the space of the Russian Empire/USSR ● post-Soviet states and societies: neighbors, friends, enemies? ● the modern city as a social melting pot or a social sieve: from strangers into neighbors or enemies? ● “backyard culture” of the Soviet city ● migration of bureaucratic cadres in the Russian empire/USSR ● paradigmatic situations of “neighbor-hood:” Cossacks and the peoples of North Caucasus, the Western borderlands ● national diasporas and discourses of good neighbor-hood and internal danger ● schemes of fraternization: twin cities in the USSR ● politics of good neighbor-hood: Soviet practices of overcoming the past after 1945 ● the neighbor is back: history of exile and return of Soviet rehabilitated peoples ● the neighbor as “alter ego:” the Russian Empire in the mirror of the Habsburg Monarchy (history of perception and borrowing from Habsburg experience) ● hierarchies of “aliens” in the Russian Empire: “cultured,” “civilized,” “assimilable,” “savage,” etc.
Annual Journal's Theme for 2010: "Friends, Foes, and Neighbors: Ascribing Meaning to Imperial Political, Economic, and Social Order".
Please direct your queries, materials and proposals to: office@abimperio.net
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