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REMINDER - CFP: *Gender & History* Special Issue 26.3, Gender, Imperialism
and Global Exchanges
From antiquity through the twentieth century, imperial expansions were
accompanied by transregional and global exchanges of goods, ideas, people,
natural resources, practices and styles. As free and unfree labour
travelled across spaces, so too did a variety of commodities and natural
resources. We seek proposals that explore the gendered impact of such
exchanges on the metropole and/or the colonies, and how these dynamics were
shaped by either gendered desires, gendered relations, or gendered
ideologies. In particular, we wish to problematise the very notion of
exchange through a critical examination of labour flows and goods and the
extraction of resources.
How, for example, can a gendered analysis of a particular political economy
shed light on uneven or exploitative global practices? How did imperial
coercions of labour involve sexualised and gendered treatments of working
bodies? We also welcome essays that focus on interchange, reciprocity, or
resistance, on collaborative and coalition-building, as well as extractive,
exchanges. We perceive empires broadly: as sociopolitical entities, as
territories in flux, as formal regimes, as ideological and cultural
hegemonies, as religious domains, as trans-regional trade networks, as
multinational corporations.
Overall, we seek manuscripts that consider the gendered dimensions of
sexual, bodily, social, material, political, cultural and intellectual
dynamics of empire from a wide range of temporal and geographic settings.
In addition to work on the Americas, Western Europe and South Asia, we are
especially keen to receive proposals about other parts of the globe,
including Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Central
Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. We strongly encourage
submissions that focus on the pre-modern period. We invite submissions from
scholars in disciplines other than history whose work engages historical
methodologies and analyses. Given our intention to produce a volume that is
at once analytically rigorous and pedagogically useful, we are interested
in articles that offer conceptual or theoretical discussion in addition to
empirically-grounded case studies. We encourage potential contributors to
submit work that falls under one or more of the following rubrics: labour
and bodies; ideas, politics and cultures; goods and commodities; practices
and styles. For sample questions, please consult the extended version of
this call for abstracts on the Gender & History website at
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We plan to approach the creation of this special issue via a colloquium to
be held at New York University (or Brown University) on Friday and
Saturday, May 17-18, 2013. Please submit 1-2 page abstracts in English
(500-750 words maximum) to gendhist@umn.edu by October 1, 2012, with
Special Issue 26:3 abstract submission in the subject line (limited funds
for the translation of articles written in other languages might be
available). Invitations to present at the colloquium will be issued in
November 2012. Papers must be submitted for pre-circulation to the editors
by April 1, 2013, as a condition of participation.
Email: gendhist@umn.edu
Visit the website at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291468-0424
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