Call for Papers: Special issue on Imagining Punjab and the Punjabi Diaspora
A Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora will be published in 2014 on: ‘Imagining Punjab and the Punjabi Diaspora’
Guest Editor: Anjali Gera Roy
South Asian Diaspora invites contributions to this Special Issue that will foreground the region within diaspora studies through focusing on Punjab, a land-locked region divided between India and Pakistan in 1947. The special issue will explore the importance of the home village/town/city, language and culture rather than the nation for many Punjabis living in the diasporas as well as for those displaced by the 1947 Partition, and will contribute to broader debates on transnationalism, postnationalism, micronationalism, and
new identity narratives emerging in the twenty first century. Papers will focus on Punjab as an ethno-spatial complex, a social form and a type of consciousness, and will address the ways in which multiple imaginings of Punjab as a site of diasporic nostalgia and longing produce inclusive as well as exclusionary narratives of self, home and community. Drawing on historical and post-colonial understandings of the region across a wide range of locations and disciplines, the papers will explore the importance of Punjab, Punjabi language and Punjabi culture in diasporic imagination, memory, identity, and everyday practices. By investigating the meanings of Punjab and Punjabiyat in the past and the present, the special issue will contribute to understandings of postnational formations within a South Asian context.
All invited and contributed manuscripts to this special issue will be peer reviewed. For guidelines of how to prepare the manuscript, please visit the journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsad
Manuscripts for the Special Issue should be submitted no later than 31 March 2013. Submission of manuscripts through electronic mail (preferably as MS Word attachment) to Anjali Gera Roy (anjali@hss.iitkgp.ernet.in) is especially encouraged. Alternatively,
please submit three printed copies and an electronic version (MS Word format on a floppydisk or a CD) of the manuscript to:
Professor Anjali Gera Roy
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur – 721 302
INDIA
Phone : +91 3222 283616 (O); +91 3222 283617 (R)
Fax : +91 3222 282270 (O)
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rsadcfp.pdf
Contemporary South Asia: Call for papers
Call for papers for a special issue of Contemporary South Asia: Gendered and social consequences of innovations in South Asia
Gender relations in South Asia are considered as a major developmental challenge of the area. Technological, social and organizational innovations have potential for improving living conditions and supporting people’s active participation but they may as well work against the better interests of the disadvantaged.
Here, we are interested in technical, social and organizational innovations that have a particular developmental role in South Asia, such as mobile phones, use of ultrasound for sex detection, micro credit, or social business strategies. Here, we will look at innovations as social phenomena: they are never merely commercial or technical ventures or products. They are necessarily socio-cultural projects, put into practice and created by socially-situated individuals and groups. Thus the interest lies more on the process than on the end result of innovation.
The idea of an innovation entails a taken-for-granted positive and useful goal – improving wellbeing by adopting something new or doing something differently than before. We would like to forward a call for papers examining whether the implementation or creation of an innovation actually manages to transform social structures of inequality, particularly gender relations, in South Asia. Or do innovations socially reinforce existing inequalities while benefitting only some particular actors?
This special issue seeks contributions that do not see innovations merely as economic or technological ventures but also as socio-cultural projects that have important gender-specific and cultural frames and consequences. In order to strengthen our understanding on how social and other innovations work in starkly hierarchical societies of South Asia, positioned, contextualized and culture-specific micro-level analyses are needed.
Guest editors: Minna Säävälä (Population Research Institute, Helsinki) & Sirpa Tenhunen (University of Helsinki)
Article manuscripts analysing primary data are sought. Please send a synopsis of maximum 500 words to the guest editors minna.saavala@vaestoliitto.fi and sirpa.tenhunen@helsinki.fi by 31th Jan 2012. The special issue is scheduled to be published in 2014.
Political Theology, special issue ‘Ten Years After 9/11′
The editors of Political Theology are pleased to announce that the latest issue is now available on the web. PT 12.5 (2011) is a special issue entitled ‘Ten Years After 9/11′, in which twenty-two contributors from across the religious spectrum take stock of the events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. Perspectives are offered from theologians, specialists in the study of religion, historians, philosophers, ethicists, anthropologists and political scientists. A number of the contributors are active in the area of interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations. Some are grassroots activists.
To continue reading this introduction, please visit: http://www.politicaltheology.com/blog/?p=526
Political Theology Vol 12, No 5 (2011): Ten Years After 9/11
Table of Contents
http://www.politicaltheology.com/PT/issue/view/PT-v12_5
Guest Editorial
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Editorial: An Alternative Vision (641-644)
Colleen Kelly
Articles
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Political Theology Ten Years After 9/11 (645-659)
Julie Clague
“Do Not Despair of God’s Mercy”: Reflections on the Divine Mercy in
Times of Tragedy (660-665)
Abdulaziz Sachedina
September 11: Meaning in Fragments (666-671)
W. Clark Gilpin
Fragments: Reflections in a Shattered Screen (672-677)
Tina Beattie
9/11 – 100 Years On (678-684)
Hugh Goddard
The War on Terror: Secular or Sacred? (685-690)
William T. Cavanaugh
The World As We Know It (691-695)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
In the Decade After 9/11 (696-698)
Amir Hussain
American by Force, Muslim by Choice (699-705)
Amina Wadud
Keeping Shari’a and Reclaiming Jihad (706-712)
Irfan A. Omar
Osama bin Laden as a Multi-Vocal Symbol (713-721)
Richard Gauvain
The Problem of Religious Violence (722-726)
Alan Mittleman
September 11, 2001: Remember Forgetting (727-736)
Asma Barlas
The Legacy of 9/11: A Decade of Denial and Destruction (737-743)
Reza Pankhurst
Tragedy and Triumphalism (744-751)
Lenn E. Goodman
The Emerging Phenomena of Post-9/11 (752-761)
Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashid
Fighting Terrorism through Generosity: The Spiritual Approach to
Homeland Security (762-769)
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Line Dividing Good and Evil (770-777)
Marina Cantacuzino
After 9/11: Religion and Politics (778-782)
David Novak
Collapsing Horizons (783-791)
Marius Timmann Mjaaland
Mourning 9/11: Walter Benjamin, Gillian Rose, and the Dual Register of
Mourning (792-800)
Ted A. Smith
Political Theology
www.politicaltheology.com
New E-Journal: Religion and Gender
The new e-journal Religion and Gender is pleased to announce the publication of its first issue. This volume addresses the theme ‘Critical Issues in the Study of Religion and Gender’ and is freely available online <http://www.religionandgender.org/index.php/rg/issue/current>.
The next two volumes of the journal will explore the themes ‘Religion, Gender and Multiculturalism’ (Winter 2011) and ‘Masculinities and Religion: Continuities and Change’ (Spring 2012).
Religion and Gender is a refereed, online, open access journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensions and as a fundamental principle of social ordering. It seeks to investigate gender at the intersection of feminist, sexuality, queer, masculinity and diversity studies.
Religion and Gender is edited by a small team of managing editors, supported by an international editorial board and an advisory board consisting of renowned scholars in the broad field of the study of religion and gender. As an academic journal, Religion and Gender aims to publish high level contributions from the Humanities and from qualitative and conceptual studies in the Social Sciences. It wants to focus in particular on contemporary debates and topics of emerging interest. The editors invite you to submit articles, book reviews, literature surveys of discussion papers, or to propose special issues.
You are encouraged to register <http://www.religionandgender.org/index.php/rg/user/register> at our website as a reader of Religion and Gender. As a registered user you will be notified when new issues of the journal are published. Occasionally you will also receive announcements related to the journal and other items of your interest.
You may also follow the journal on Academia.edu<http://religionandgender.academia.edu/ReligionandGenderejournal>
or on LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Religion-Gender-4138623?home=&gid=4138623&trk=anet_ug_hm>.
South Asian Diaspora, Volume 2, Issue 1 is now available online
South Asian Diaspora, Volume 2, Issue 1 is now available online at Informaworld: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g920438076
Special Issue: South Asian Diaspora and the BBC World Service: Contacts, Conflicts and Contestations
This new issue contains the following articles:
Editorial:
Mediating the diaspora Parvati Raghuram
Articles:
Introduction – South Asian diasporas and the BBC World Service: contacts, conflicts, and contestations Marie Gillespie ; Alasdair Pinkerton ; Gerd Baumann ;Sharika Thiranagama
The BBC Empire Service: the voice, the discourse of the master and ventriloquism Andrew Hill
Partitioning the BBC: from colonial to postcolonial broadcaster Sharika Thiranagama
South Asian broadcasters in Britain and the BBC: talking to India (1941–1943) Ruvani Ranasinha
Bangladesh, 1971, and the BBC South Asian language services: perceptions of a conflict William Crawley
Sweet tales of the Sarangi: creative strategies and ‘cosmopolitan’ radio drama in Nepal Andrew Skuse
The Mumbai attacks and diasporic nationalism: BBC World Service online forums as conflict, contact and comfort zones Marie Gillespie; David Herbert; Matilda Andersson
Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture Studies
The Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture Studies is an annual multi-disciplinary refereed international journal. Unpublished research papers on any issue pertaining to the study of English Literature, Literatures in English, ELT, Translation Studies and Media & Cultural Studies and Book Reviews are invited for its first issue scheduled to come out in October, 2010.
Deadline for Submission: June 30, 2010
CONTACT ADDRESSES
Dr Vivek Sachdeva, Department of English
B.P.S. Women’s University, Haryana
Send your contributions by e-mail to: viveksachdeva09@gmail.com
See attached for full details:call for papers journal of english
SAMAJ – South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Latest publication, Thematic Issue: ‘Contests in Context: Indian Elections 2009’ It is accessible in full at: http://samaj.revues.org/index1092.html
The issue includes the following contributions:
Balveer Arora and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal: Introduction: Contextualizing and Interpreting the 15th Lok Sabha Elections
Christophe Jaffrelot and Gilles Verniers: India’s 2009 Elections: The Resilience of Regionalism and Ethnicity
Bertrand Lefebvre and Cyril Robin: Pre-electoral Coalitions, Party System and Electoral Geography: A Decade of General Elections in India (1999–2009)
Rekha Chowdhary: Electoral Politics in the Context of Separatism and Political Divergence: An Analysis of 2009 Parliamentary Elections in Jammu & Kashmir
Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal: Studying Elections in India: Scientific and Political Debates
SAMAJ is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, on-line journal, devoted to social science studies on South Asia. For more information, please visit our website http://samaj.revues.org
CFP: FINNISH JOURNAL OF EHTNICITY AND MIGRATION
Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration (FJEM) is a scholarly and professional electronic, open access journal, published by the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU).
FJEM aims to promote and advance the circulation of the multidisciplinary study of ethnic relations and international migration that is conducted in Finland and its neighbourhood, especially the other Nordic countries. The Journal is trilingual (English, Finnish, Swedish) and published twice a year. The editor of the journal is Tuomas Martikainen at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
We welcome manuscript submissions on various themes falling under the rubrics of the journal, and all manuscripts go through an external and anonymous peer-review process.
If you are interesting in publishing with FJEM, article manuscripts can be submitted in Word or RTF to the journal’s editorial assistant Tiina Kanninen, tiina.kanninen[at]uta.fi.
Before submitting your paper, please read the detailed submission guidelines at http://www.etmu.fi/fjem/instructions.html
On behalf of the editorial team, Tiina Kanninen, editorial assistant, FJEM. http://www.etmu.fi/fjem/index.html
The Historian – GCU
The Historian, a bi-annual, peer reviewed, research journal published by the History Department at Government College University, Lahore. They have just launched a new weblog and CFP. See further: http://historypublications.wordpress.com/about-us/
Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture – call for papers
Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture is a new peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=173/).
Crossings provides a space for debate on the important nexus of migration and culture from diverse global and local perspectives, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies. The journal is concerned with questions of displacement, mobility, diaspora, cultural memory, and the negotiation of cultural identity and cultural representation in global and local contexts of migration from the mid twentieth century to the present day.
Contributions are sought from academics working in Migration Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Film Studies, Oral History and Ethnography, Modern Languages and Literatures, as well as from cultural practitioners such as filmmakers, photographers, musicians, curators, writers and scriptwriters who work on or around the topic of migration. In addition to refereed articles, Crossings also welcomes review articles of films, music, photography, exhibitions or books on migration-related topics, as well as interviews with cultural practitioners who focus on migration-related topics and oral histories of migrant cultural experiences.
All submissions should be sent electronically to the Principal Editor, Professor Parvati Nair (p.nair@qmul.ac.uk)
Call for Papers (The Historian – A Biannual Research journal)
Department of History, GC University, Lahore, Pakistan invites research papers for publication in The Historian, a referred bi-annual research journal. The next issue (Volume: 8 Number. 1, January-June 2010) is intended to examine the relationship between culture(s) and the Pakistani state. The papers should examine the institutional and pedagogical practices in the post-partition Pakistani society. We would keenly welcome theoretically innovative papers analyzing the nexus of culture and the state-craft in the contemporary Pakistan.
Possible areas of study may be:
- Institutional Matrix in Pakistan (Military, Police, Bureaucracy)
- Education as a controlling technology
- Extremism, Modernity and Tradition
- Pakistani Bureaucracy/Military as a cultural Elite
- Pakistani institutionalization and cultural homo/heterogeneity
The contributors may also discuss other themes with the editor, The Historian, before submitting their papers. The length of the papers should be between 6000 to 8000 words. Please mail your CV and an abstract (400-500 words) by the 15 December 2009 to the Department of History, GC University, Lahore.
Dr Tahir Kamran: tahirkamran_gcu@yahoo.com
Department of History , GC University, Lahore, Pakistan, www.gcu.edu.pk
The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue
The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ is a forum for academic, social, and timely issues affecting religious communities around the world. Published online, it is designed to increase both the quality and frequency of interchanges between religious groups and their leaders and scholars. By fostering communication, the Journal hopes to contribute to a more tolerant, pluralistic society.
The Journal works to maintain the highest level of academic integrity. Managed and edited by a multifaith team of seminary students and scholars, all articles undergo a double-blind peer review by the academics, theologians, and non-profit leaders who serve on its Board of Scholars and Practitioners. The Journal’s very operation demonstrates that, while significant differences do indeed exist between religious communities, they need not preclude collaborative efforts and general good will.
Starting the Conversation
The inaugural edition of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ is dedicated to the dynamics of dialogue itself. With articles from students, scholars, and leaders around the world, it aims to enrich discourse about the benefits and challenges of interacting, both as individuals and communities, with different religious traditions. We invite you to take part in this conversation and to share your personal perspectives and experiences as a person of faith, or no faith at all, living in a multi-religious world. http://irdialogue.org/
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