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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS- Volume of Essays on Specific Nationalisms

Call for Contributions to the volume of Essays on Specific Nationalisms

Sprawy Narodowo*ciowe (Nationalities Affairs) is a premiere European
biannual periodical devoted to the study of nationalism and ethnicity,
brought out by the Polish Academy of Sciences.

After the breakups of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia at the close of the
20th century, nationalism became the only truly global ideology. In the 
21st
century the basic political unit is the nation-state and its social
counterpart is the nation. Thus, the necessity arises to spur up 
comparative
research on specific nationalisms as embodied in various nation-states
(India, Romania, Nigeria, Bolivia, the USA etc) and pursued by stateless
nations/national movements (eg the Catalans, the Kurds, the Zulus, the
Tamils, the Mayans). Without in-depth analyses of these nationalisms no
sound explication of the world's social, political and economic processes
will be possible nor will statesmen be able to take learned decisions.

Since 2000 Sprawy Narodowo*ciowe has strongly contributed to the 
creation of
the comparative basis for the study of these nationalisms through 
publishing
analytical essays devoted to them. Now we plan to publish a separate,
extensive volume of Essays on Specific Nationalisms at the turn of 2004 and
2005.

Therefore, we open an urgent call for contributions.

We are looking for essays that focus on the rise and development of 
specific
nationalisms through the overview and analysis of the most significant
texts, symbols and events that have been employed for the building of a
specific nation and/or national movement. If possible and practical, also
local studies on nationalism in general, and the reception of the world
literature on nationalism as translated into the local language(s), should
be taken into account. We also welcome analytical articles on the overall
dynamics of nation- and nation-state-building in the broadly defined 
regions
of the world (Western Europe, the Americas, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan
Africa, Northern Africa and the Middle East, post-Soviet Central Asia,
Oceania and the like).

Articles ought to be submitted in English. The world limit is 10,000 except
in special cases to be discussed with the Editors. Depending on the nature
of a study, references can be given in footnotes or in parentheses with, in
the latter case, the list of literature attached at the end of the
contribution. Titles of quoted books and articles should be romanized if 
not
in the Latin script, and appended, in brackets, with English translations
unless these titles are in English, German or French.

With your contribution, please, include the following:

 - abstract (up to 200 words);
 - key words (up to 7);
 - information on the Author (3-6 lines);
 - institutional affiliation of the Author;
 - email or postal address to be included in the volume.

The deadline for submissions is October 30th, 2004.

Sprawy Narodowosciowe (Nationalities Affairs)
Unit for the Study of Nationalities, Polish Academy of Sciences
Stary Rynek 78/79, 61-771 Poznan, Poland, Tel/Fax (+48) (61) 8520950

Editors of the volume:

Prof. Wojciech J Burszta (wojciech.burszta@swps.edu.pl)
Editor-in-Chief, Sprawy Nardowosciowe (Nationalities Affairs)

Dr Tomasz Kamusella (PERMANENT: tomek672@poczta.onet.pl; THRU AUGUST 2004:
tkam@loc.gov)
Initiator and Coordinator of the Project 'Essays on Specific Nationalisms'

Dr Tomasz Kamusella
Oct 2003 -- Sept 2004
Fellow, John W Kluge Center
Library of Congress, Washington DC
tkam@loc.gov
tel 202 707 0169
fax 202 707 3595
fax 202 252 3255

Preferred Mailing address, Home:
1600 S Eads St #1218N
Arlington, VA 22202
tel 703 521 3772

PERMANENT email:
tomek672@poczta.onet.pl




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