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>Topics of the day:
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>  1. FYI: New list for East Central Europe Researchers
>  2. CFP: Radical History Review Call for Submissions: "The Uses of th e
Folk"
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>Date:    Mon, 7 May 2001 22:10:21 -0500
>From:    Tony Galt <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: FYI: New list for East Central Europe Researchers
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>FieldNetECE is a networking resource, based at Columbia University, for
>researchers in the social sciences
>and history (very loosely defined). It currently has approximately 100
>subscribers. The purpose of this list is to
>allow researchers who will be in East Central Europe to meet other
>researchers in order to facilitate research, contact sharing or provide
>moral support during fieldwork.
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>FieldNetECE is a moderated list which means that it will carry a low volume
>of messages with essential information-it will be limited to sharing contact
>information, brief personal information and, on rare occasions, to
>discussion of issues that affect our fieldwork. As there are many other
>lists for the discussion of research, no extended discussions will be
>permitted (i.e. your mailbox won't be flooded with messages if you
>subscribe to this list).
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>Date:    Tue, 8 May 2001 11:35:47 -0500
>From:    "Galt, Anthony" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Radical History Review Call for Submissions: "The Uses of th e
>         Folk"
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>Radical History Review Call for Submissions: "The Uses of the Folk"
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>Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-06-15
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>Radical History Review announces a call for submissions to a thematic issue
>on "The Uses of the Folk." This issue will address historical processes (in
>all periods and across nations and cultures) in which "the folk" have been
>invoked or invented for broader political purposes. In some cases, groups
>have rallied around a "folk" or vernacular culture as a way of preserving a
>distinct identity in the face of encroaching commercial or imperial
>culture. In other cases, observers have used theories of folk culture to
>draw broad generalizations about racial or class capacity for civilization
>and citizenship. Increasingly, since the birth of the new social history,
>scholars have turned to folk artifacts for evidence of the culture and
>consciousness of people who left few written records. It is thus incumbent
>on historians to critically interrogate the category of "folk." We see
>these uses of "the folk" as interrelated sites of struggle, beginning with
>the questions: what has been described as folk culture and who has the
>power to define it? We are particularly interested in explorations of the
>opportunities and limitations that articulations of "folk" identity have
>presented to the "folk" themselves.
>
>Radical History Review publishes material in a variety of forms. In
>addition to articles based on archival research, we encourage submissions
>to our various departments, including:
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>* Historians at Work (reflective essays by historians working in academic
>and non-academic settings that engage with questions of professional
>practice)
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>* Teaching Radical History (syllabi and commentary on teaching)
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>* Public History (essays on the politics of the past in cultural production
>and in public settings)
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>* Reflections (proposals for interviews with scholars, activists, and
>others)
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>* (re)Views (review essays on history in all media--print, film, and
>digital)
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>Submissions in any of the above forms might address any of the following
>issues:
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>*  invocations of folk culture by political movements of indigenous and
>aboriginal peoples, or by right-wing or fascist political movements
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>*  the marketing of folk imagery and folk culture, including music,
>performance, material culture, and ethnic or heritage tourism
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>*  local, national, and global economies of folk revivals
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>*  "folk" and racial, ethnic, and class identities
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>*  the uses of the "folk" in imperialist projects
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>*  critical investigations of the relationship between folk and popular
>culture
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>*  the claiming and performance of folk culture as a resistant practice
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>*  the academic collection and uses of folk culture
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>*  the history of the concept of "the folk" within anthropology, history,
>folklore and other academic disciplines; how investigating concepts like
>"the politics of everyday life" is similar to or different from
>investigating "the folk"
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>*  self-commodification and the "mask" of "the folk"
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>*  gender and folk culture, including perceptions of folk culture as
>masculine or feminine; the association of folk culture with the supposedly
>non-commercial, community-based world; the ways in which folk culture is
>gendered in discourses about its distance from civilization and modernity
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>*  the uses of "the folk" in the creation of diasporic identities
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>*  how conceptions of "the folk" influence immigrant cultures and issues of
>assimilation and cultural preservation
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>Please contact issue co-editors Karl Hagstrom Miller
>([log in to unmask]) or Ellen Noonan ([log in to unmask]) if you
>have any questions. Submissions should be sent to Managing Editor, Radical
>History Review, Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY
>10012.
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>Contact information:
>Ellen Noonan
>Center for Media and Learning
>The Graduate Center, CUNY
>365 Fifth Avenue, Rm. 7301.10
>New York, NY  10016
>212-817-1969
>Email:  [log in to unmask]
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