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Neo-Anti-Colonialism vs. Neo-Imperialism: Relevance of Postcolonialism in Post-Soviet Space
Journal: East/West
Period: 2012
Deadline for submitting abstracts: Jan. 10, 2012
Deadline for submitting full papers: Jul. 1, 2012
Description of the Special Edition
The special edition of East/West: "Neo-Anti-Colonialism vs. Neo-Imperialism: Relevance of Postcolonialism in Post-Soviet Space" will be devoted to the discussion of anti-colonial, postcolonial, colonial, and imperial discourses in Eastern and Central Europe, and Eurasia.The outcome of the project will be a publication of a special issue of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal "East/West" by the end of 2012.
Eligible topics for the Journal
The editorial board is seeking contributions related to the following issues:
- "communication vessels": relationships between (former) metropolis and (former) colonies;
- compensatory policy: a "privilege" of being traumatized and a tendency towards compensation;
- problem of responsibility in postcolonial societies: elites, provincialism, xenophobia;
- actualization of "protective nationalism" as a response to the external aggression and the new wave of colonization;
- challenges of the cultural policy development (language, publishing, education, re-writing schoolbooks, mass media etc.);
- issues of generation gap: generations born in the USSR versus those born in the post-Soviet states (Ukraine, Russian Federation, Belarus etc.);
- postcolonial interpretation of relevant historical events, literary texts, movies, museum exhibitions etc. is also accepted.
In the selection of materials the preference will be given to the texts related to the regions of Eastern and Central Europe, and Eurasia.
Guidelines for submission
We will accept scholarly articles, essays, and reviews of no more than 40,000 characters written in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English or German together with a brief summary (abstract).
The materials are to be sent to:
Associate Editor: Dr. Gelinada Grinchenko: gelinada.grinchenko@gmail.com
Invited Editor: Dr. Tetyana Dzyadevych: dziadevych@ukr.net
Organizer
Information & contacts
The Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 6 Svobody Square,
aud. 486, Kharkiv, 61077 Ukraine.
tel.: 0038.057.705.2630
e-mail: gelinada.grinchenko@gmail.com
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