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Dear
colleagues,
Please,
find below Ab Imperio annual program for 2008.
Ab
Imperio
P.O. Box
157, Kazan, 420015, Russia
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International
Quarterly on the Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the
Post-Soviet Space
CALL FOR
PAPERS
2008
annual
theme:
Gardening
Empire
As a
result of Ab Imperio’s focus on languages of self-description in the imperial
space (2005-2006) and on knowledge and its gray zones in empire
(2007),
the journal explored discourses and practices of rationalizing and modernizing
the diverse imperial space. To build on this trend - as well as
expand it
to new areas of research and reflection - we invite our authors and readers to
explore the history of empire through the concept of the
“gardening
state” inspired by Zygmunt Bauman’s sociology. Following the established
tradition, we would like to explore practices of the
rationalization of imperial space through a meta-concept - in this case a meta-concept
in continental sociology reflecting grand historical processes
of
modernity - which is brought to bear on diverse imperial experiences and encounters.
It becomes immediately obvious that in the case of empire the
concept
of the gardening state loses its single-vectored character and its homogenizing
and totalizing potential, because in the imperial states the
right to
“garden” is contested by multiple - social, political, ethnic, confessional -
actors.
This
right to garden is entangled with one of the key questions in the study of
empire: the problem of uniqueness and exceptionalism of historical
experiences,
both in the eye of the scholarly beholder and as contained in the languages of
self-description of historical actors. Each and every
empire -
from classic antiquity to modern day composite polities - rests on a notion of
a unique and exceptional historical path. This exceptionalism is
dialectically translated into imperial universalism, which lifts imperial loyalties
and identifications above local, regional, national, confessional,
or social
loyalties. The dialectic transformation of imperial exceptionalism
also reveals itself in hierarchies of shared and divided sovereignties,
exclusions,
and gray zones unregulated by the ever increasing pace of rationalization of
modern polities. As one of the central questions of our
first
issue in 2008, we pose the problem of imperial exceptionalisms and the problem
of academic languages that describe them. Can dichotomies between
colonial
and land empires (which lead to specific configurations and isolation of
research fields) be overcome through a dialogue between
research
traditions and their mutual translation, and through exploration of connections
and knowledge circulation within and outside of historic
empires?
Can a post-colonial paradigm shed light on the history of the Russian Empire?
And can the latter, in turn, generate new insights and
complicate
post-colonial studies?
These and
other questions naturally lead to the problem of gardening
the imperial subject, the focus of the second issue of the journal in 2008.
Overcoming
the nation-centered and top-down political history, is it possible to enrich
our understanding of the history of empire by looking
into
traditional themes of post-colonial studies: the relationship between the intimate
and the collective across the divide between the metropole and
the
colony? Borrowing research topics from post-colonial studies (family, sexuality,
nurture, upbringing) and combining them with established research
programs
in Russian imperial history (schooling, languages, socialization), can we identify and describe multiple
gardeners - and perhaps gardens - and
come to
an understanding of the mechanisms of imperial subjectivity?
Gardening
imperial and national spaces invokes establishing an ideal, utopian harmony of
well-regulated and orderly relations among humans and
between
human societies and nature. How is this ideal order challenged and contested,
and what are possible forms of violating and vandalizing imperial
and
national gardens? In the third issue of 2008 we are interested in exploring
different forms of violence as practices of signification, as
forms of
rationality and irrationality, and as means to making and unmaking of
groupness. At the same time, we are looking for articles focusing on
rationalization
and standardization as forms of (symbolic) violence.
In the
last issue of the journal our focus is on the ecology of imperial gardens as
reflected in languages and practices in imperial space. As
gardening
transgresses the divide between the social and the natural, it generates
languages of authenticity and nurture. Problems in this issue may
range
from ecological discourses in constructing imperial and national identities, to
sanitary and hygienic projects of different imperial and
national
gardeners.
1/2008 Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms
and Discourses
Discourses
and mythologies of exceptionalism in representations of empires ・ Politics of comparison in studies
of empires: the promise and limits of
postcolonialism and the problem of translatability of historiographies of empires ・ Exceptionalism
as an operative mode of empires: empires as
hierarchies
of legal, social and cultural particularisms and exceptions ・ Uniformity and
individuation in governance and cultural encounters in the
imperial
space ・ Benevolent, modernizing and
oppressive empire: the Russian/Soviet “mission” in the East, the West, and the
world ・ The
making of
social and cultural differences as a practice of imperial governance ・ Historiographies of imperial
exceptionalisms and national
Sonderwege
・ Localizing globalization: contested
meanings of the post-Soviet and Eurasian space ・ Is a comprehensive theory of empire
possible?
Overcoming exceptionalist languages of self-description ・Regional and national
exceptionalisms as practices of difference-building ・
Entangled
experience of empire: communication and learning from different imperial
ventures ・ “Gardening state” as a metaphor in
the context of
imperial
and post-imperial histories.
2/2008 Gardening the
Imperial Subject: Intimate and Collective in the Imperial Space
Social
practices of subjecthood in the imperial and national space ・Biographies of transitional selves:
between old imperial and new national
elites ・ The site of difference and uniformity:
the imperial army as an instrument of gardening the imperial subject ・ Regulating family,
reproduction, and nurture: mixed marriages, family, and children in imperial and
national space ・
Upbringing of imperial subjects: pedagogy of unity and
diversity
・ Education, reform, and citizenship:
between imperial and national subjects ・ Practices of socialization in ethnically
diverse
milieus:
mimicry, translation, and assimilation ・ The intimate of imperial and national
subjecthood: emotions, attachments, loyalties ・ Intimate
relations
and collective subjects: agents and objects of gardening in imperial and
national space ・
Imperial minds: psychiatric discourses in the
empire ・ Religiosity and subjectivity:
confessional and interconfessional practices of the
self.
3/2008 Vandalizing the Garden: Multiple Forms
of Violence in the Imperial Space
Between
anarchy and tyranny: theoretical problems of violence understood as a social
and political phenomenon in a heterogeneous space ● Social
engineering
as violent interventionism ● Rationalization and standardization as
repression ● Violence as the language of local
exceptionalism and uniqueness ● The rationality and irrationality of violence in
culturally divided space ● Jewish pogroms; exterminations of
small
nationalities; social landscapes of war zones and ethnic conflicts ● Violence
as a “legitimate” politics: political terrorism and imperial and
national
tensions ● Genocides, deportations and traumatic experience of ethnic
conflicts ● The ambiguity of the concept of criminality in the
empire:
drawing and violating cultural, social and political borders ● Violence
as a social practice of vertical and horizontal communications in
the
empire ● Imposing languages: symbolic violences in imperial and national spaces.
4/2008 Nature and Nurture: Ecology of Imperial
Gardens
Organic
metaphors of the social order ● Discourses of environmental determinism:
from Arnold Toynbee to Lev Gumilev ● The
emergence of
environmental thought in imperial and national discourses ● Ecology, sanitation,
and empire: landscaping national and imperial spaces ●
Ecological
disasters or imperial triumphs: colonization, depletion of resources, re-making
of spaces ● Ecological limits of expansion and
adaptation
of imperial rule ● Ecology of communications in the expansion and
integration of empires ● Regionalism through the prism of environmental
history ●
Hygienic and sanitary projects in empire and nations across the 1917 divide ●
Rationalizations of imperial spaces and the trope of
preservation of archaic authenticity ● Postcolonial claims on bodies and territories.
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