Labnet: CFP: 1968 and the Third World - Oxford/New York 09/08

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From:    Rebekka Weinel eu.protest at hca.uni-heidelberg.de 

CFP: 1968 and the Third World - Oxford/New York 09/08
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Berghahn Books
01.09.2008, Oxford/New York
Deadline: 01.09.2008

Forty years after the massive protest movements that consumed most of
the world, few scholars would disagree that the 1960s represented a
worldwide outpouring of student dissent against multiple centers of
power. However, the promise of a truly globalized historiography
engaging all centers of protest has yet to come to the fore. 

While important work has been done regarding the movements of 1968 in
the United States and Europe, the creation of an understanding of the
decade that includes the Third World still remains incomplete. We are
therefore seeking contributions for an edited volume entitled "1968 and
the Third World" that will address this shortcoming and take into
account the diverse experiences of many countries in Asia, Africa and
South America.

Rejecting the notion that the Third World existed solely in the
periphery, this volume wants to pave the way for a new and more
inclusive global definition of 1968. We believe that the events in the
Third World have yet to receive the attention that they deserve from
scholars of all fields and offer a particularly rich setting into which
our understanding of 1968 can expand.

Three key questions with regard to the sixties' experience in the Third
World will structure our volume: 

Section One: Local Context and Articulation: Case Studies of 1968 in the
Third World
Articles describing specific articulations of 1968 in the Third World
and the ways that youth movements and revolt occurred within the local
context of these national arenas. 

Section Two: Crossing Borders within the Third World
Articles analyzing the transnational connections between movements in
the Third World, addressing the question of a specific "Third World"
identity with regard to youth and student revolt.

Section Three: Breaking Down Boundaries between the West and the Third
World
Articles examining the connections, both ideological and physical,
between protest movements in Europe and the U.S. and movements in the
Third World. 

We seek contributions relating to each section and are particularly
interested in approaches that engage issues such as place/space, gender,
sexuality, counterculture, religion, post-colonialism/neo-colonialism,
violence, memory, and identity.

The volume will be published in the series "Protest, Culture and
Society" by Berghahn Books, Oxford/New York
(http://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.php?pg=Protest_Cult)

Please email a chapter proposal of up to 1,000 words and a C.V. to
Zachary A. Scarlett (scarlett.z at neu.edu) or Samantha Christensen
(Christiansen.s at neu.edu) by September 1, 2008. 

If selected, full chapters will be due in January 2009.

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Samantha Christensen 
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave
247 Meserve Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Christiansen.s at neu.edu 

Zachary A. Scarlett
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave
247 Meserve Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Scarlett.z at neu.edu 

Homepage <http://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.php?pg=Protest_Cult> 

URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
<http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/termine/id=9338> 



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