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CALL FOR PAPERS
As the initial phase of a project the American Historical Association
hopes to undertake jointly with various area studies associations on
GLOBALIZING REGIONAL HISTORIES, we seek expressions of
interest from those willing to participate in panel sessions being
organized at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association,
African Studies Association, American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies, American Studies Association, Association of Asian
Studies, Latin American Studies Association, and Middle East Studies
Association.
Panel topics will focus on the range of issues that emerge from
processes by which community identities are constructed across national
and regional boundaries, both contiguous and diasporic. This should
enable us to discuss economic processes, cultural formulations, and
changing political claims for such groups over long historic periods as
well as in the most recent burst of accelerated globalization. One might
ask, for example, how we historicize the contradiction that, while the
global commodification of culture tends to homogenize, a strong counter-
tendency of local identity politics simultaneously emerges.
Some specific examples of processes by which ethnic/racial/religious
identities are constructed would include material conditions (guest
workers, immigration, other movements of people, capital, technology)
and ideological conditions (diasporic literatures, newly "imagined
communities"). Examples of people whose communal identity crosses
contiguous political units are Kurds, Basques, Mayans; diasporic ones
are many.
The organizers have broadcast this wide appeal in the hope of
assembling some valuable interdisciplinary and cross-regional panel
proposals for a variety of association meetings as listed above.
Please submit informal proposals, either for individual papers or for
panels, with an initial deadline of May 1, 1996. (We expect to issue
subsequent calls for papers based on the results of the first round.)
Please also indicate your preference for the meeting at which the paper
or panel would be presented. Send proposals to:
Globalizing Regional History
c/o Sandria Freitag, Executive Director
American Historical Association
400 A Street, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In preparing your proposal, you may wish to consult with others
working on this project. Please feel free to contact any of the following:
Renate Bridenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- for
Western and Eastern Europe and North America
Anand Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- for Asia and the
Pacific
Patrick Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- for Africa and World
Jacquelyn Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- for Latin
America and the Caribbean
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Centre for Resource Management/
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University
Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (64) (03) 325-2811 x8377
Fax: (64) (03) 325-3841
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