Ab Imperio in 2003 Call for Papers

[Serguei Glebov]

AB IMPERIO
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International Quarterly on Theory and History of Nationalism and Empire in
the Post-Soviet Space

CALL FOR PAPERS


2003
annual theme:
IMPERIAL BORDERS AND LIMINALITIES

¹ 1/2003 "Russian Empire: Borderlands and Frontiers"
Multiple frontiers in Russian history and their impact on the
formation of Russian and non-Russian national identities · Historical,
sociological and anthropological dimensions of internal and external
frontiers in imperial context · Porous external frontiers of the empire,
the problem of cross-fertilization of imperial strategy and shared
imperial experience · Overlapping internal frontiers and the contest for
the imperial realm · Wings for the two-headed eagle: Western and Eastern
borderlands in Russian and Soviet history · Borderland history as a view
from be-low and beyond the imperial Masternarratives · Social, economic,
cultural, and political dimen-sions of frontiers · Zones of liminality:
tribes - peoples - nations.

¹ 2/2003 "Beyond the borders: political and economic migrations, internal
and external exile" The phenomenon of migration in Russia in comparative
context · Forced migration and displaced peoples · Mass and Individual
Deportations · Internal exile · Political emigrations · Border regimes and
politics of entrance and exit · Citizenship and subjecthood as en-trance
and exit criteria · Cultures of displacement.

¹ 3/2003 "Searching for the Center: Russian Nationalism"
Russian imperialism - Russian nationalism: a family quarrel? · The
schema of Russian history: symbolic contest for the imperial past ·
Orthodox or Russian: religious and ethnic conceptualization of
Russian nationhood · Soviet man or Russian people: ambiguous
relationship between the Soviet project and the Russian
pre-revolutionary legacy · Citizenship or Subjecthood: Russian
nationalists and the Russian monarchy.

¹ 4/2003 "The Limits of Marginality: Jews as inorodtsy in Continental
Empires" Ghetto, Pale of Settlement, National Border: Jews in European
Continental Empires · "Jewish policy" in the system of "nationalities
policies" of the imperial state · Specifics of Jewish versions of
adaptation: acculturation, assimilation, resistance · The symbolic Jew in
multinational continental empires · Jews and modernity · Jewish
nationalism as a phenomenon of European modernity · Jews and modernization
· Creating a Jewish past: Jewish historiographic projects and imperial
historiography · Jews: "imperial nationality" or "Fifth Column"?


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