Labnet: CFP: Gender and the Politics of Exile in the Latin American Diaspora - Ghent 04/10

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From:    Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney <jadwiga at email.arizona.edu> 

CFP: Gender and the Politics of Exile in the Latin American Diaspora -
Ghent 04/10
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Department of History
University of Arizona
16.04.2010, Ghent
Deadline: 20.03.2009

We are inviting paper proposals for a panel that seeks to contribute to
a gendered perspective of the history of Latin American exile,
preferably with a focus on the twentieth century.  Papers should add new
complexity to the understanding of exile, which scholars have often
gendered as particularly male.  Few studies have addressed the
(re-)construction of male and female identities as they were (re-)shaped
in the course of exile. We do not know enough about the gendered social
and cultural characteristics of the community life Latin American exiles
established in different parts of the world, or about the
(re-)production of gender relations when men and women exiles negotiated
political and social spaces/identities in receiving societies and
(re-)shaped ties to their home countries.

Papers could address, but are not limited to, the following questions: 
To what extent have the journeys refugees took to new cultural and
political environments also represented journeys to new gendered
identities? 
Were men and women in exile addressed differently by political leaders
and/or the citizens of receiving societies they met?
How have exiles transformed their relationships to fellow-members of
exile communities and to new communities they built in the course of
their exile experience?
What was the impact of life abroad on the exiles' personal
understandings of masculinities and femininities?  
What were the gendered complexities of homecoming? Are there
characteristics of relocation and/or return that can be seen as
distinctly male or female practices?
How have returning exiles, women and men, contributed to the (re-)making
of the political, cultural, and gendered environments in their home
countries?

The European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) will take place
in Ghent, Belgium, between April 13 and April 16, 2010. 

Please submit a paper title, abstract, and a brief CV off-list, by March
20 to:

Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney
Department of History
University of Arizona
jadwiga at email.arizona.edu 

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Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney
University of Arizona
Department of History
215 Social Science Bldg.
Tucson, AZ 85721
jadwiga at email.arizona.edu 

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