[Bilimsel Haber] FW: Call for Papers: Social Transformation and Mass Mobilization, Rethymno (Crete) 22-24 October 2009

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From: Marios Papakyriacou <mariotzan at yahoo.gr>
Subject: Call for Papers:  Social Transformation and Mass Mobilization
Date: February 23, 2009
 
International Colloquium
Institute for Mediterranean Studies/F.O.R.T.H., Rethymno (Crete) 22-24
October 2009


Rival Pursuits, Common Experiences:
Social Transformation and Mass Mobilization in the Balkan and Eastern
Mediterranean Cities (1900-1923)


CALL FOR PAPERS


The first decades of the 20th century witnessed the maturing of national
movements and an escalation of national antagonisms in the Balkans and
Eastern Mediterranean region. Rival nationalist projects, culminating in
severe confrontations and wars, often led the people of the region?s
nation-states to experience and construct their distinctiveness vis-à-vis
their neighbors in terms of absolute difference, enmity and mutual
exclusion. Being heirs of these projects, the established national
historiographical approaches have applied the same filter to this turbulent
period in the history of the countries of the region, so much so that
striking similarities and parallel processes have been largely neglected.
The cities of the region were the sites par excellence where these parallel
processes were deployed. To name but a few these processes included:
economic growth and urbanization (through agrarian exodus and movements of
economic diasporas and  refugees); emergence of new social groups and
categories and transformation of the social fabric; development of the
workers? movement; urban unrest and mass mobilization and participation in
major political ruptures (revolutions, coup d?états, regicides etc.);
intense ideological and political osmoses and crystallizations. Nationalist
mobilization itself, which divided the hearts and minds of the early 20th
century people, ironically forms part of this wider, to a large extent
common, picture. The aim of the colloquium is to initiate a comparative
examination of these processes and its ambition is to contribute to the
mapping of this transitional and formative period for the societies of the
region.

We welcome participants who, sharing an interest in comparative inquiry,
would seek to contribute through the examination of particular cases within
the following broad fields:

The transformation of the urban economy: processes, rhythms, outcomes.

Diversification of old and emergence of new urban social groups/classes: old
and new petit bourgeois, rural incomers and the proletariat, commercial,
financial and industrial bourgeoisie.

Ideological antitheses and reconfigurations, new political movements and
formations and the restructuring of national political landscapes.

We would be glad if you could reply to our call by giving the title and a
short abstract of the paper you intend to present as soon as possible, and
not later than the 31st of March 2009.