[Bilimsel Haber] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS- Journal of PIPSS, Issue #5, June 2006

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS- Journal of PIPSS, Issue #5, June 2006

The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies Issue #5, 
June 2006 "Women and Military Institutions in Russia and the Post-Soviet 
Area."

An electronic journal of social sciences Web: http://www.pipss.org/

Call for Contributors:

Pipss.org is a new electronic journal of social sciences devoted to the 
armed forces and power institutions of post-Soviet societies. Pipss.org 
is a multi-disciplinary journal, which addresses issues across a broad 
field of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, political 
science, psychology, economics, history, legal science. Its main 
objective is to study changes and their underlying mechanisms in 
post-Soviet republics, through the analysis of the institutions that 
remain most hidden from the public eye: armies and power institutions. 
As an electronic journal, pipss.org also aims to promote scholarly 
debate across as broad an audience as possible, and make CIS research 
available to Western scholars. Thanks to its international scientific 
board drawn from a large pool of leading academics and experts in their 
respective fields, it is in a position to become a leading source of 
analysis on post-Soviet societies.

Pipss.org is a member of the French CNRS/EHESS scientific journals' 
network (Revues.org) and a Principal Partner of the International 
Security Network (ISN, www.isn.ethz.ch).

Fifth Issue:
"Women and Military Institutions in Russia and the Post-Soviet Area."

The issue editors of Vol. 5 would like to invite scholars and experts to 
submit their papers for publication in a special issue on "Women and 
Military Institutions in Russia and the Post-Soviet Area."

The subject is to be approached for a pluridisciplinary angle, touching 
on historical, political, social and economic aspects. Attention will be 
paid as much to the role of women within military institutions as to the 
relations between women and the army in Russia and the other CIS republics.

In this issue, preference is given (but not limited) to four major 
categories:
1. The social role of women in their relations with the armed forces:

  - The social function of the soldier's wife, past and present.
  - Careers, lives and times of soldiers' wives.
  - Origins and functions of organisations of soldiers' wives (the role 
of the army's patronage system: zhensoviet / zhenotdel and Council of 
Parents of Servicemen of Russia, Belarusian Armed Forces' Women's 
Councils etc.)
  - The role of women in the economic functioning of military institutions.

2. Organisations of soldiers' mothers in Russia and the CIS:

  - Relations between organisations of soldiers' mothers and military
authorities.
  - Regional organisations and their modes of action with the authorities.
  - The specificity of 'feminine' intervention in the armed forces.
  - Specific registers of justification used by women in their relations 
with military institutions such as, for example, "maternal right(s)".
  - Political action by soldiers' mothers, notably in the context of 
setting up a political party.

3. Women in armed conflicts:

  - The role of women during armed conflicts in the Soviet and 
post-Soviet area: Afghanistan, Nagorny Karabakh, Chechnya...
  - Women veterans: social reintegration on returning to civilian life, 
the place of women in veterans' organisations, comparison between the 
status of male and female veterans.
  - Women civilians in zones of armed conflict: humanitarian 
organizations other than movements of soldiers' mothers, mothers in 
search of their enlisted son.

4. Women within the armed forces and power ministries:

  - The status of women in power ministries (police, defence, transport,
borders).
  - The choice of a career in the army or police.
  - Which work for women within power ministries?
  - Women's careers in the power ministries.
  - The place of women in the prison system.

Papers dealing with other issues related to armies and power 
institutions in the CIS, as well as book review proposals are also welcome.

Reviews:

Publishers interested in publicizing their editions, please send review 
copies to:

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
15 rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

Guidelines for article submission:

The journal will be published in four languages (French, English, 
Russian, and German with a 100-word abstract in English) thanks to which 
most authors will be able to write in their mother tongue. This will 
ensure greater precision in the articles and avoid a decrease in 
scientific quality. But we draw your attention to the fact that most 
pipss.org readers are essentially English speakers, therefore we do 
encourage articles in English in order to reach an audience as
broad as possible.

The articles submitted to pipss.org for publication should be original
contributions and should not be under consideration for any other 
publication at the same time. Manuscripts should be attached as 
Microsoft Word format. References should be given in footnotes. (For 
more details about the guidelines for article submission please check 
www.pipss.org or contact the Editorial Board). There should be a cover 
page stating the author's background and affiliation, full address.

If you wish to submit an article, please first contact the editorial 
board and send a 100-word abstract in English. The deadline for article 
submission is May 10, 2006, with publication in June. Final decisions on 
publication will be made by the Editorial Board.

Please send your contributions or inquiries to:

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Chief Editor, contact@pipss.org
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (5th Issue Editor)
Anna Colin Lebedev (5th Issue Editor)

Editorial Board: Eden Cole, Francoise Dauce, Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, 
Anna Colin Lebedev, Anne Le Huerou, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Joris Van 
Bladel

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