FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Cordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Call for Papers: THE MEANINGS OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION: Multiple Perspectives on Changing Industrial Landscapes Original essays are sought for an edited volume that will help to redefine the process, spatial relations, chronology, memory, and politics of what is commonly known as "deindustrialization." Emphasizing a cultural-historical approach to the problem, we want to analyze the complexity and multiple meanings of one of the major transformations of the twentieth century. In seeking to bring historical depth to this chronologically and geographically uneven process, we are looking for the following types of contributions: 1. Case studies of U.S. cities and towns that have undergone serious capital disinvestment and industrial decline. We are particularly interested in work that challenges conventional wisdom about the timing, causes, consequences, and diversity of impacts of deindustrialization. 2. Case studies of communities experiencing reindustrialization or reinvestment. Through what means, on what terms, and with what consequences has this happened? How are communities and workers portrayed in this process? 3. Studies that explore the ripple effects of deindustrialization in popular culture: song, film, television programming, popular memory, commemoration, and public space. When capital is relocated, what is the impact on notions of such issues as citizenship, patriotism, and work ideology? 4. Studies of how this process has played out in local, regional, national, and global politics. What are the alternative futures lost in the past? How are issues such as industrial policy, labor power, and party politics shaped by changes in the industrial world? If interested, please send (electronically if possible) a 500 word abstract of your current or proposed project along with a short c.v. by February 1 to: Jeff Cowie and Joseph Heathcott 269 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-3901 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
