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Re: CFP: Journal of Historical Sociology: Imperial Plantations
Pensri Ho
pensri at hawaii.edu
Tue Oct 23 13:50:16 EDT 2007
> CALL FOR PAPERS:
> <http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0952-
> 1909>JOURNAL
> OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
>
> Imperial Plantations Past and Present
>
> Editors: Piya Chatterjee, Women's Studies, University of
> California-Riverside, Monisha Das Gupta, Ethnic Studies and
> Women's
> Studies, University of Hawai'i at M noa, Richard Cullen Rath,
> History, University of Hawai'i at M noa
>
> In this special issue, we seek to stage an interdisciplinary
> conversation between the past and the present in order to engage
> the
> enduring logics of plantation systems. While keeping in mind that
> historical plantations have conditioned those of today, attention
> to
> contemporary plantation systems shows that the plantation is no
> artifact of old empires. We are looking for essays that engage
> plantations' global reach, even when the object of study is as
> local
> as a particular plantation. We welcome submissions from all
> regions
> that have been profoundly changed by plantations including but not
> limited to eastern Africa, southern and southeastern Asia, the
> Americas, or plantation islands (whether in the Caribbean, the West
> African coast, the Indian Ocean, or the Pacific).
>
> We invite essays that think beyond area studies and nationalist
> frameworks. In this issue, we conceive of plantation economies
> and
> societies as bringing together multiple diasporas and staging
> encounters between indigenous people and immigrants. Of particular
> interest to us are papers that consider conquest from indigenous
> perspectives while marking land appropriation as necessary to the
> development of the plantation complex. Submissions might
> investigate
> the connections, disjunctures, and interplay among various
> racialized/ethnic groups as well as consumers and producers;
> multi-disciplinary approaches linking cultural processes such as
> diaspora and creolization; or the effects of supra-national
> structures like the World Bank and programs for structural
> adjustment
> on labor and commodity circuits. We would like to see the papers
> track shifts in labor regimes and consumption patterns over time
> rather than considering them in isolation.
>
> Millions of workers continue to labor within racialized, gendered,
> and sexual economies of the plantation from which the past is
> difficult to extricate. Essays might consider colonial,
> neo-colonial, and post-colonial plantations as carceral economies
> geared toward rendering labor predictable through everyday and
> extraordinary violence. We would like to foreground analyses that
> treat race and gender as intersecting systems of violence. We also
> seek papers that investigate how plantations carry ideologies such
> as
> race, caste, patriarchal gender roles, heteronormativity, or
> religion
> around the globe. What relations of power do plantations carry
> with
> them and how are they transformed in the process?
>
> We are looking for the ways that consumption simultaneously
> fetishizes and erases the laboring bodies who produce plantation
> commodities. What fantasies of consumerism erase the corporeality
> of
> the product consumed? How does capitalism both connect and isolate
> labor, plantation infrastructures, and consumers? By connecting
> cultures of mass consumerism to cultures of production, we seek to
> bridge the artificial divides of metropole and periphery, global
> and
> local. How do memory and memorialization -- for example in
> nostalgic
> recreations of plantations as tourist sites -- erase or minimize
> the
> realities of historic and present-day plantations? In sum, we want
> this special issue to trace how historical and contemporary
> plantations manifest the global circuits of labor, commodities, and
> consumption.
>
> Please send an abstract of 250 words by January 10, 2008 to
> <mailto:jhscfp at way.net>jhscfp at way.net. If you already have a
> paper,
> please send it to the same address along with the abstract. The
> final
> articles should be 7,500-10,000 words. See author guidelines for
> the
> journal at
> <http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0952-
> 1909&site=1>http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0952-1909&site=1.
> While we encourage authors to use images for their articles, they
> have to high resolution jpg, tiff or pdf files. The issue is
> slated
> for publication in January or February 2009 (volume 21, issue
> 4). Direct any questions about the special issue to the above
> address.
>
> Monisha Das Gupta
> Associate Professor
> Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies
> University of Hawai'i
> 2560 Campus Road
> George Hall 306, Ethnic Studies Department,
> Honolulu, HI 96822
>
> 808-956-2914 (phone)
> 808-956-9494 (fax)
>
>
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