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Call for Publications Theme: Emancipation of Researchers Through the Decentralization of Normative Models Subtitle: Reciprocal Comparisons Publication: Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space Date: No. 4 (2013) __________________________________________________ Ab Imperio editors would like to invite manuscript submissions to our special issue (No. 4/2013) on "Emancipation of Researchers Through the Decentralization of Normative Models: Reciprocal Comparisons". Guidelines for submission can be found at: http://abimperio.net/cgi-bin/aishow.pl?state=portal/contributor&idlang=1 Possible Themes: - Academic freedom today: institutional mechanisms and cultural norms of stimulating and limiting scholarly research - innovation or trickstering? recognizing innovation in the humanities - freedom from stereotypes: the principle of historicism and method of estrangement from historical experience - comparative history of key social and political conceptions - modernity beyond Eurocentrism - hierarchies in the production of knowledge - reciprocal comparison: circulation of knowledge and interwoven institutions and practices in historical dynamics - instrumentality of translation for comparative history - historians after postmodernity - deterritorialization of analytical models - decentralization of narrative without “toxic relativism” - new horizons, conceptual traps and dead ends of normalizing the exceptionalism of historical experience Permanent Sections: Theory and Methodology – History – Archive – Sociology, Anthropology & Political Science – ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies – Newest Mythologies – Historiography and Book Reviews Please, direct all questions to: [email protected] or [email protected] Contact: Ab Imperio Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space P.O. Box 157 Kazan, 420015 Russia Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.abimperio.net __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
