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Essays are invited for a groundbreaking book project looking at society and life under the Ustasha regime. This edited collection of essays aims to examine the history of the everyday and the extraordinary in the Independent State of Croatia through the exploration of range of historical phenomena which have, until now, received only peripheral attention in the existing literature. This volume employs a range of innovative and interdisciplinary historical methodologies which until now have not been widely used in writing about the Ustasha regime and Independent State of Croatia: social history and history from below; economic history; anthropology and sociology; intellectual and cultural history; the history of psychologies; and interdisciplinary methodologies as well as comparative approaches.
In particular, this volume uses an interdisciplinary and comparative focus to consider the nature of the regime’s terror and how this related to the regime’s wider cultural, social and intellectual visions. Although proposals are encouraged on all aspects of the Ustasha regime and Independent State of Croatia, proposals in the following areas are especially welcome:
• The Ustasha movement as underground nationalist movement (life in Ustasha training camps; radical right student, youth and worker organisations; nationalist workers’ unions; émigré Ustasha workers)
• Dynamics of the Ustasha state (factionalism and power struggles; party purges; generational and gender conflicts; Catholicism and secularism)
• Cultural politics broadly defined (cultural utopianism and revolution; urbanism and peasantism; university, student and intellectual life; science and modernity; national regeneration and the "second revolution")
• The politics of memory, trauma and political religion (mass festivals and celebrations; public rituals and commemorations; historical memory and staging of the past; the politics of sacralization)
• Consumption, leisure time, advertising and propaganda
• Ideological and socio-economic phenomena (campaigns of mass terror; socio-economic utopianism; patterns of consumption; social mobility; anti-capitalist ideology; racial science)
• Social refashioning (gender; the surveillance state; social relationships; morality and education campaigns)
All those interested in taking part in this project should submit abstracts of no more than 1,000 words and brief details of research interests and publication details by 1 April 2012. If successful, a full draft of around 8,000 words should be submitted by 20 December 2012 in English. For more information, or to submit an abstract, please contact:
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