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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (BOOK PROJECT):
APPALACHIA REVISITED: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON REGIONAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
| Location: | United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2013-03-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2013-01-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
200152 |
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (BOOK PROJECT):
APPALACHIA REVISITED: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON REGIONAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
We request a Call for Abstracts of original, scholarly research across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences that address the theme of “Appalachia Revisited.” With revisited, we mean to highlight transformations in the Appalachian region and concurrent changes in the way Appalachia is approached as a topic of academic study. Our goal is to develop a cross-disciplinary examination of the cultural, technological, economic, political, and environmental processes that have shaped Appalachia approximately over the last twenty years. The objective of this project is the production of a peer-reviewed, edited book of approximately 80,000 words for publication through an academic press. Individual chapters will range 6,000-7,000 words. We invite abstracts of 450-600 words by March 1, 2013 that address Appalachia’s connections to wider processes of transformation, including changes in theoretical and methodological approaches to regional scholarship. Above all, we welcome creativity in Revisiting Appalachia. Below is a list of some possible areas of inquiry, but we invite abstracts that transcend these boundaries or fit the theme in other ways.
• Papers that assess the impacts of shale gas production in northern Appalachian social, economic, technological, and/or public policy contexts.
• Papers that analyze biodiversity and habitat change, including comparisons across sub-regions and/or historic eras of land use, with regard to the impacts of climate change, energy production, agriculture, suburban sprawl, or other processes.
• Papers that explore the multidimensional intersections of modern electronic media and culture in Appalachia. Topics might include practices of self-representation and projections of Appalachian e-identities, emergent online networks of virtual community, and the structural and economic conditions of technological access in the region.
• Papers that analyze educational attainment in Appalachia and the relationship between national and regional educational trends.
• Papers that examine Appalachia’s active global connectivity in reference to the localized, heterogeneous circumstances of living through transnational circulations and incorporations. Topics might include studies of shifting demographic profiles, transnational migrations, or connections to international political economy.
• Papers that describe emergent forms of community-based (grassroots) engagement with politics, culture, and economy.
• Papers that examine Appalachian social organization through the lenses of race, gender, and sexual diversity.
• Papers the assess health care, public health, and social work trends in Appalachia with attention to the cultural and public policy dimensions of service delivery.
• Papers that explore religious tradition and change in Appalachia, including the perspectives of minority religious groups in the region.
• Papers that profile continuities and changes in the production and consumption of art in Appalachia.
• Papers that contextualize writing on Appalachia through contemporary frames of cultural critique, including the perspectives of racial and gendered experience.
We were encouraged about this project by an initial interest shown by a book publisher during the 2012 Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) meetings. For more information, or to submit an abstract, please contact one of the following project editors. We are happy to discuss other topics that might fit into this volume and will be available to meet at the March 2013 meetings of the ASA.
Dr. William Schumann
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
wrs18@pitt.edu
Dr. Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
Ohio University Southern
fletchr1@ohio.edu
Dr. William Schumann is assistant professor of anthropology and director of the Allegheny Institute for Natural History at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
Dr. Rebecca Adkins Fletcher teaches Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Ohio University Southern.
Timeline:
March 1, 2013 Deadline for abstracts; Editors begin
writing a full manuscript proposal.
April 1, 2013 Contributors selected and full chapter
drafts requested.
Oct.-Nov., 2013 Full chapter drafts collected.
Early Spring 2014 Complete manuscript submitted for review.
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Dr. Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
Ohio University Southern
1804 Liberty Drive
Ironton, OH 45638
Email: fletchr1@ohio.edu
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