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Papers on the Popular Culture of Disasters
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2001-12-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2001-06-14 |
| Announcement ID: |
127880 |
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The International Committee on Disaster Research (IRCD) a formal subgroup within the International Sociological Associaiton has initiated a series of books on disaster topics that will be produced electronically by Xlibris. One of the volume to be produced will be on the popular culture of disasters. Popular culture is currently interpreted very broadly as including such phenomena as disaster jokes and humor, board games and puzzles with disaster themes, folk legends and beliefs about disasters, disaster calendars, songs and poems created at times of disasters, disaster novels and films as well as spoofs of the latter, anniversary newspaper issues, Great Flood myths, on-site graffiti, memorial services, cartoons and comic books with disaster themes, survivor buttons, WWW chat rooms that develop around disaster occasions, etc. Anyone interested in producing a manuscript for the book on any of these or related topics should contact Gary Webb (the senior of the book at webbgr@okstate.edu or Quarantelli (elqdrc@udel.edu). All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. The scheduled publication date is sometime in 2002.
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E. L. (Henry) Quarantelli
Research Professor
Disaster Research Center
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302 831 6618
302 831 2091
Email: elqdrc@udel.edu
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