CfP: Violence and Memories
Encounters an International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society (Edited by Zayed University, Dubai) invites submissions for an special issue on Memories and Violence: Problems and Debates in a Global Perspectives. Guest Editor Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)Understanding the ways in which societies have experienced multiple forms of violence has been at the forefront of a number of academic debates in the last few decades. Of great importance to these debates is the question of how a violent past is socially articulated in the present. How do societies and specific communities render meaningful a violent past? How is the process of memorializing connected to the broader cultural and political landscape? What are the connections between memory, identity and community? Between silence and speech? This special number of Encounters will explore these questions across different regional contexts and historical experiences. Contributions that rethink the connections between memories and violence are particularly welcome. Please submit your paper (6,000 to 10,000 words) electronically in MS Word format to acastill@uniandes.edu.co by August 1st, 2011. For further information see: http://encounters.zu.ac.ae
Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society promotes and publishes scholarship from the humanities and the social sciences, and their intersections on topics related to the encounters of cultures, intellectual traditions, and social and political systems across space and time. The journal seeks a critical understanding of the transcultural and transnational factors that shape such encounters --and by extension, the world as we know it. The editors encourage contributions that explicitly link the humanities and the social sciences and engage their different methodologies. Regular special volumes will offer stimulating, focused engagement with specific historical, political, cultural, social or theoretical questions. Encounters will be peer-reviewed and published biannually. ISSN 2075-048X. Distribution by I.B. Tauris http://www.ibtauris.com