FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:32:55 -0700 From: Liza Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: call for papers, Anthology September 1, 2000: The Culture of the New West: The coeditors and University of Utah Press seek contributors to a new anthology examining the culture, history, politics, and commodification of the "New West." The working title of this series of essays is "Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West." We seek out essays that illuminate a West in which SUV's and an REI card exist in symbiosis with the Wilderness movement and a Sierra Club membership; a West in which the symbols of authentic identity shift from cowboy hats to a North Face jacket. Possible categories will involve: "Tasting the West" including essays revolving around the development of the aesthetic West, from the New West haute cuisine of elk tenderloin with huckleberry sauce, to architecture and unobstructed and consumed landscapes; "The Politics of Patagonia" which would include topics revolving around nature and recreation; "Selling the West," which would contain papers examining the commodification of the New West, from New Age Westerners, Western kitsch and the Nissan SUV (complete with first aid kit for outdoor recreationalists), to the narrative of Outside magazine; and "Scripting the West" which would include essays examining the narrative of the New West in film and in the explosion of recent works of Western literature, much of which place the land at the center of a Western identity and sensibility. This section might also include essays on how celebrities, from John Denver in Colorado to Robert Redford in Utah or Ted Turner in Montana, produce their own particular Western spaces. Contributors may adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their material. Papers should be no more than 25 pages in length, (not including end notes), scholarly and analytical but accessible to a wide readership and of interest to scholars in many academic disciplines. We would hope to include essays by academics specializing in Western History and Studies, Environmental History or Cultural Studies, along with writers and essayists who have focused on western topics in their work. Please send completed work to Liza Nicholas-- University of Utah, 426 G. Street, Salt Lake City, UT, 84103. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
