CfP: "Gender and the Politics of Exile in the Latin American Diaspora"

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10.03.2009

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

University of Arizona

Department of History

215 Social Science Bldg.

Tucson, AZ 85721

jadwiga@email.arizona.edu

Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher

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