Open Call for Papers for the 2014
volume of the academic journal History of
Communism in Europe: Narratives of Legitimation in Totalitarian Regimes
in the 20th Century Europe - Heroes, Villains, Intrigues and Outcomes.
The forthcoming issue of the
academic journal History of Communism in Europe is Narratives of
Legitimation in Totalitarian Regimes in the 20th Century Europe – Heroes,
Villains, Intrigues and Outcomes. Twenty five years ago the grand narrative of
European communism collapsed together with the Great Wall of Berlin, leaving in
its wake an invitation for questions, analyses and startling revelations. This
grand narrative resisted for several decades and a perfume of nostalgia for
those times still persists in Central and Eastern Europe. Looking further back
in time, countries in this area and in the rest of the European space
experienced regimes of the extreme right. Today many of the consequences of
both extremes are widely known, but the question of legitimation still lingers.
This volume tries to explore the myriads of strings that formed those grand
narratives: grass-root ideologized story-telling, construction of important
characters and figures, micro and macro-narratives, narrative templates of
collective memory, narratives that define and legitimate knowledge and truth,
symbolic figures of heroes and villains. Are there specific types of
legitimation according to different cultures and cultural influences? We
welcome articles that intertwine history, memory, sociology, anthropology,
philosophy, critical theory, gender studies, literature or any other related
field and are written from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Topics may address the following
aspects:
- different grounds for
legitimation of a totalitarian regime;
- national/nationalist discourses
and their narrative memory templates;
- symbolic institutions and
symbolic characters: monographs, self-built identities - autobiographies;
narratives of identity grounded in tradition;
- types of narratives and their
use in legitimation: arts, literature, history, science;
- socialist narratives of
legitimizing gender equality;
- daily social practices,
education and propaganda;
- narratives and
counter-narratives on the relationship between religious and laic authority;
Contributors are kindly asked to write abstracts that do not exceed 500 words. Deadline: 1st of June 2014.
You may submit your proposals at: hce@iiccr.ro , dalia.bathory@gmail.com.
Contributors are kindly asked to write abstracts that do not exceed 500 words. Deadline: 1st of June 2014.
You may submit your proposals at: hce@iiccr.ro , dalia.bathory@gmail.com.
Selected authors will be notified
by the 20th of June. The deadline for the final draft of the paper is 30th of
August 2014.
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The academic journal History of
Communism in Europe is edited by The Institute for the Investigation of the
Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile. It is a journal open
to all inquiries that have the objectivity, complexity and sophistication
required by any research on the issue of communism, as well as on the different
aspects of totalitarianisms of the 20th Century Europe. These scholarly
investigations must remain an interdisciplinary enterprise, in which raw data
and refined concepts help us understand the subtle dynamics of any given
phenomenon.
Information from IICCMER’s
website.
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