CfBC: Volume on "Post-Yugoslav Feminist Activism in the 21st Century

*CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS**Post-Yugoslav Feminist Activism in the 21**st** Century*

*Editors of the collective volume:* Zorica Sirocic (University of Graz) and Libora Oates-Indruchová (University of Graz)

The development of an explicitly feminist positioning already in the 1970s and the existence of initiatives alternative to the agenda of the state women’s organizations is what distinguishes the former Yugoslavia from
other countries of the former Eastern bloc with respect to women’s activism. This activism received a powerful impetus in the 1990s from the violent transition of the successor countries of federal Yugoslavia. It was
the latter rather than the legacy of the Yugoslav women’s movement that influenced the direction of feminist theory as well as activism in the 1990s. They both focused primarily on the interconnections between patriarchy, nationalism and war. Many feminist activists and academics of the 1990s positioned themselves against the nationalist politics of the successor states’ governments and, as such, were in the spotlight of the international academic and political attention. Consequently, this attention produced a wealth of feminist research and theory.

CfP: 3ès Journées scientifiques sur « Théories de la diversité culturelle et de la mondialisation »

Date limite : 1er février 2010

Les journées scientifiques sur « Théories de la diversité culturelle et de la mondialisation » se tiendront à Beyrouth les 3 et 4 mai 2010. Organisées conjointement par l’Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth et le réseau DCAM (Diversité des expressions culturelles et artistiques, et mondialisations), elles se tiendront dans les locaux de la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines de l’Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth.

Les journées scientifiques de Beyrouth font suite aux journées scientifiques régionales organisées les 2 et 3 décembre 2006 à Oran (Algérie), en collaboration avec le Centre National de Recherches en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (CRASC) d’Oran sous le titre Incidences et résistances de l’art dans le contexte transculturel du Maghreb, et à celles qui se sont tenues les 24 et 25 octobre 2008 à Koper (Slovénie), en collaboration avec l’Université Primorska de Koper, sous le titre Histoire de l’oubli en contextes post-socialiste et post-colonial.

Objectifs des journées scientifiques
Après quatre années d’existence et de travail ponctuées par les différentes Journées scientifiques organisées en partenariat, auxquelles il convient d’ajouter les résultats obtenus par les actions de recherche soutenues dans le cadre du réseau DCAM, il s’agit d’interroger les conceptions théoriques de la diversité culturelle et de la mondialisation et de les mettre à l’épreuve du terrain complexe de l’espace francophone.

Thématiques et questions à débattre
Organisé sur quatre demi-journées, le colloque s’orientera autour de quatre axes principaux :
Axe 1 - Cultures et diversités
Axe 2 - Diversités culturelles et mondialisations
Axe 3 - Diversités culturelles et diversités linguistiques
Axe 4 - La diversité culturelle entre patrimoine et création, résistances et inventions.

Calendrier
1er février 2010 : dépôt du résumé de la communication et de la fiche d’inscription en version électronique.
1er mars : décision du Comité scientifique des Journées
1er juillet : remise des textes des communications en vue d’une publication des Actes du colloque.

Inscription
Document de présentation de l’appel (en format pdf)
Formulaire (en format doc)
Formulaire (en format odt)
Formulaire (en format pdf)

Les chercheurs intéressés à participer aux Journées scientifiques DCAM 2010 sont invités à remplir le formulaire de proposition de communication.

Le formulaire dûment rempli devra parvenir, sous forme électronique, avant le 1er février 2010, au coordonnateur du réseau. info@dcam.auf

Les propositions de communications devront être rédigées en français.
Dépôt des propositions
En version électronique uniquement :
M. Patrick VAUDAY
Coordonnateur du réseau DCAM
Université Paris-Dauphine
info@dcam.auf

En version électronique et papier :
Mme Dragana DRINCOURT
Chargée des relations avec les réseaux
Langue française, diversité culturelle et linguistique
AUF
4, place de la Sorbonne
75005 Paris (France)
dragana.drincourt@auf.org

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CfBC: Book Series: "Asia in the New Millennium"

"Asia in the New Millennium"

This book series aims at publishing creative works on Asia with new materials and/or with new interpretations. We welcome manuscripts that look at the challenges and opportunities of Asia in the new millennium from the perspectives of politics, economics, and cultural-historical traditions. Projects that study the impact of Asian developments on the world are also welcome. Priority will be given to those manuscripts that examine the history and prospect of the democratization process of
Asia. Also of interest are theoretically, empirically, and policy oriented works that can be used as teaching materials at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Here is the website of the book series:
http://www.kentuckypress.com/newsite/pages/series/series_asia.html

The following books have been accepted for publication in the series:

1) "Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy," edited by George Wei, Yufan Hao, and Lowell Dittmer has been published.
2) "China-Russia relations in the Early 21st Century," edited by James A. Bellacqua, is now in press.
3) "China, the Other, and the West: Law, Legitimacy, and the Moral Geography of World Order in Chinese History," by Chris Ford, is now in press.
4) "Eurasia's Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics: China, Russia, and Central Asia," edited by Niklas Swanstrom and Robert Bedeski, is under contract.
5) "China's Grand Strategy," Ye Zicheng, trans/eds by Steven Levin and Guoli Liu, has been approved for publication.

Editorial Board:
William Callahan, University of Manchester, Southeast Asia, Thailand
Lowell Dittmer, University of California at Berkeley, East Asia and South Asia
Robert Hathaway, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, South Asia, India, Pakistan
Mike Mochizuki, George Washington University, East Asia, Japan and Korea
Peter Moody, University of Notre Dame, China and Japan
Brantly Womack, University of Virginia, China and Vietnam
Charles Ziegler, University of Louisville, Central Asia and Russia Far East

Please send inquiries to the series editor Dr. Shiping Hua by e-mail
at: shiping.hua@ louisville. edu, or by phone: 502-852-3305

Shiping Hua, Ph.D
Professor of Political Science
Director
Center for Asian Democracy
The University of Louisville
Ford Hall 205
Louisville, Kentucky 40292
USA
Phone: 502-852-3305
email: shiping.hua@ louisville. edu
http://www.louisville.edu/asiandemocracy

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CfE: Open Call to artists for COP 15 [DL: 20.11]

In relation to the climate conference in Copenhagen December 7-18 2009 we invite you to contribute with a poster, image or statement addressing the social and environmental justice dimension of climate change from your point of view.

The posters will be printed in black and white i A2 format, mounted on a board and carried in a march over the green commons of Copenhagen and into the city on Wednesday Dec 9. They will then be installed at Kunsthal Charlottenborg during the climate conference.

Format: A PDF file in print resolution (150 dpi is fine), black and white, size: A2
Send it to: info@field-work. dk

Deadline is November 20th.
We are looking forward to your contribution.

Best
Field Work
Lise Skou and Nis Rømer

www.field-work.dk/opencall.html


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Call for Contributions for Journal of Global Analysis (CESRAN)

JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANALYSIS

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS


Journal of Global Analysis endeavours to become the foremost international forum for academics, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the disciplines of political science, international relations, economics, sociology, international law and human geography.

Journal of Global Analysis is an interdisciplinary refereed e-journal, edited by a group of international scholars indicated in theEditorial Board and International Advisory Board. The journal is published at its own web site http://www.cesran. org/globalanalys is. Journal of Global Analysis welcomes submissions of articles from related persons involved in the scope of the journal as well as summary reports of conferences and lecture series held in social sciences.

Prospective authors should submit 4.000 - 15.000 articles for consideration in Microsoft Word-compatible format. For more complete descriptions and submission instructions, please access the Editorial Guidelines and Style Guidelines pages at the CESRAN website: http://www.cesran.org/globalanalysis. Contributors are urged to read CESRAN's author guidelines and style guidelines carefully before submitting articles. Articles submissions should be sent in electronic format to Ozgur TUFEKCI, Chairman of CESRAN and Editor-in-Chief, oztufekci@cesran. org or Husrev TABAK, Managing Editor, husrevtabak@ cesran.org.

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CfC: Revolve-Magazine

Call for Contributors: REVOLVE

www.revolve-magazine.com

REVOLVE is
a Mediterranean magazine pushing for positive change around the sea. Within the
context of North-South relations, we aim to provide constructive content to
advance new ways of viewing international politics, opening investment
opportunities, promoting emerging artists, and debating unresolved hot-spots.
Revolve is therefore more than just another magazine: we aspire to become a
growing network of involved citizens and interested companies that share a
common goal around the sea and beyond.

We are looking for positively-oriented and motivated contributors to provide the content for the different regions around the Mediterranean: South Europe, the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East. We are particularly interested in the latest developments in energy, politics, and the arts. Please send this on to your colleagues and do not hesitate to send in proposals to promote a project, product, person or place around the Med and beyond.

We are also participating in marathons to promote smaller energy projects and emerging artists. Please "participate" and help us give this initiative some serious momentum!! If you feel compelled to run, join us in Ljubljana at the end of October!! and start revolving!!

Stuart Reigeluth
Editor, Revolve
stuart@revolve-magazine.com
www.revolve-magazine.com


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CfP: "The relations of the Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet army with non Russians, from the Imperial Age to the present

The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, # 10, June 2009

An electronic journal of social sciences

www.pipss.org

Call for contributors: “The relations of the Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet army with non Russians, from the Imperial Age to the present”.

Pipss.org is an electronic journal of social sciences devoted to the armed forces and power institutions of post-Soviet societies. Pipss.org is a multi-disciplinary journal, which addresses issues across a broad field of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, economics, history, legal science. Its main objective is to study changes and their underlying mechanisms in post-Soviet republics, through the analysis of the institutions that remain most hidden from the public eye: armies and power institutions. As an electronic journal,
pipss.org also aims to promote scholarly debate across as broad an audience as possible, and make CIS research available to Western scholars. Thanks to its international scientific board drawn from a large pool of leading academics and experts in their respective fields, it is in a position to become a leading source of analysis on post-Soviet societies. Pipss.org is a principal partner of the International Security Network (www.isn.ethz. ch ) and a member of the CNRS/EHESS scientific journals network Revues.org.

Tenth issue: “The relations of the Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet army with non Russians, from the Imperial Age to the present”.

In 2009, our electronic review, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies ( www.pipss.org) will devote an issue to “the relations of the Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet army with non Russians, from the Imperial Age to the present”. The issue will present a multidisciplinary view – historical, sociological, anthropological, demographic, political science, etc.

Owing to its situation as melting pot of the Nation, the army has always had to deal with the problem of ethnic diversity, its recognition and importance varying according to the period.

The Imperial Age was marked by the introduction of universal conscription. Yet despite the declared “universality” of military service, different recruitment policies were applied depending on geographic and social origin, as well as religion.

After the revolution, the Red Army, which became the Soviet army, played and essential role in the making of “the Soviet man”: military service became the nation’s school – it was the Army’s job to teach populations to read and write and to Russianise them. Managing the ethnic mix in the Army was a complex problem. The Army’s physical needs and its needs for skills, combined with the authorities’ distrust of certain minorities led to numerous twists and turns: ethnic battalions were organised, while minorities considered unreliable were first barred from conscription, then gradually reintegrated.

After the Great Patriotic War, the continuing distrust of certain nationalities on the part of the high command led to the exclusion of these populations from the officers corps, while less prestigious battalions (stroibat) were made up essentially of Central Asian recruits. Military hierarchy was predominantly Slav. It was during this period that the zemliachestvo phenomenon appeared.

On the eve of the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the federated states (notably the Baltic republics) considered the Soviet army as an occupying army. Many minorities refused to speak Russian. When the USSR collapsed, it was the Slavs’ turn to be a minority in the armies originating in the Soviet army (in states) outside Russia.

Having chosen to maintain a policy of conscription, the post-Soviet Russian army remains confronted with ethnic and religious problems: in particular, it is faced with a sharp increase in its Muslim population (this increase was already problematical under Brezhnev, but became less so with the fall of the USSR and the loss of Central Asia, especially Azerbaidjan. The two Chechen conflicts, as in the previous war in Afghanistan, forced military authorities to adopt specific policies towards Muslim recruits. Finally, the post-Soviet Russian army seems at present to have officially chosen to support local and ethnic grouping as a new method for eradicating dedovchtchina, and continues to direct Muslim recruits towards non combat
and less prestigious battalions.

The organisation of ethnic and religious diversity specific to each of these different epochs up to now is therefore the crux of our investigation. The study of military policies in regard to minorities from the tsarist epoch up to the present time seems essential to an understanding of the foundations of post-Soviet ethnic relations.

The questions we would like to deal with in this issue are the following:

Minorities and conscription policy

- minority conscription policies during the various periods mentioned (Jews, Muslims, Caucasian ethnic minorities, etc.); problems encountered by the authorities for the integration of these minorities; passive and active resistance of these minorities to integration into the army; political, social, demographic, linguistic and physical barriers to integration into military service;

- dissensions between ethnic minorities and the state

Ethnic units

- the training of ethnic units; the role of ethnic minorities during the first and second world wars (their contribution to the victory of the Red army over Nazi Germany);

- the use of ethnic units during local wars (Tadjikistan, Afghanistan, Chechnya, etc.).

Zemliatchestvo

- the principle of extra-territorialit y and nationalities policy in the army;

- ethnic grouping in the army (zemliatchestvo) : yesterday and today; ethnic (and religious) grouping as a factor in the eradication of dedovchtchina in the post-Soviet army?

The Slavic minority, from the tsarist empire to the CIS

- The Ukrainising of the Ukrainian Soviet State in the 20s and 30s;

- Russian/Slavic officers in CIS armies;

Language policy in the army

- the Russian army and language policy (Russianising, literacy, the language of command, etc.)

- the Russian occupation army (from the imperial army to the Soviet army before the collapse of the USSR)

- CIS armies and language policy after the fall of the USSR

The army, military exploits and the xenophobic component in Russian nationalist discourse

- the appropriation by the Russians of the army’s glories, from Stalin (under whom, already, only the great Russian generals were celebrated) to Putin.

Religious minorities in the army

- managing religious minorities (Jewish, Muslim, etc.) in the army; freedom of worship; dealing with Muslim conscripts during the Afghan and Chechen crises;

- changeover to a professional army. What is the scenario, in the context of an increasing Muslim population? Towards a mono-national and mono-religious volunteer army or an army representative of national diversity? (towards the constitution of multinational or mono-national units, as is the case in Chechnya today?)

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Guidelines for article submission

The journal will be published in three languages (French, English and Russian with a 100-word abstract in English) thanks to which most authors will be able to write in their mother tongue. This will ensure greater precision in the articles and avoid a decrease in scientific quality. But we draw your attention to the fact that most pipss.org readers are essentially English speakers, therefore we do encourage articles in English in order to reach an audience as broad as possible.

The articles submitted to pipss.org for publication should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Manuscripts should be attached as Microsoft Word format. References should be given in footnotes. (For more details about the guidelines for article submission please check www.pipss.org or contact the Editorial Board). There should be a cover page stating the author's background and affiliation, full address.

If you wish to submit an article, please first contact the editorial board and send a 100-word abstract in English. The deadline for article submission is April 10, 2009, with publication in June 2009. Final decisions on publication will be made by the Editorial Board.

Please send your contributions or inquiries to:

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Chief Editor,
contact@pipss. org

Juliette Cadiot, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (10th Issue Editor)

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Papers dealing with other issues related to armies and power institutions in the CIS, as well as book review proposals are also welcome.

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REVIEWS

Publishers interested in publicizing their editions, please send review copies to:

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

15 rue Charlot

75003 Paris, France

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Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

Chief Editor

The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies

www.pipss.org

contact@pipss. org

Editorial Board: Eden Cole, Anna Colin Lebedev, Françoise Dauce, Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Anne Le Huerou, Erica Marat, Laurent Rucker, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Joris Van Bladel

Scientific Board: Adrian Beck (UK), Alexander Belkin (Russia), Frederic Charillon (France), Stephen Cimbala (USA), Julian Cooper (UK), Roger Mc Dermott (UK), Isabelle Facon (France), Mark Galeotti (UK), Aleksandr Gol'ts (Russia), Dale Herspring (USA), Philippe Manigart (Belgium), Kimberly Zisk Marten (USA), Michael Orr (UK), Michael Parrish (USA), Nikolay Petrov (Russia), Eduard Ponarin (Russia), Jean-Christophe Romer (France), Jacques Sapir (France), Manfred Sapper (Germany), Louise Shelley (USA), Richard Staar (USA), Brian Taylor (USA), Mikhail Tsypkin (USA), Stephen Webber (UK), Elena Zdravomyslova (Russia).


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Call for contributions: Plotki online on Flea markets [DL: 10 nov]

CALL FOR ARTICLES- PLOTKI MAGAZINE

(Please circulate widely)

The Central and Eastern Europe magazine PLOTKI is looking for photo, picture, graphic, movie, animation, sound, text and multimedia contributions for the next online issue in December 2008 on:

***FLEA MARKET***

* Stop by a flea market in your city and tell share with us your most exciting discoveries in the pile of extraordinary, counterfeit or however special goods - clothing, shoes, handbags, fragrances, antiques, violins, gramophones, books, chinas, diners services, coins, military honours, lace, carpets, traditional knitting and fabrics, buckled glass, food - or your bicycle you believed to be in your cellar. Flea markets are about meeting, swapping, trading goods and, with them, their significance.

* What about the traders? Do you want to share with us what you have discovered about their story? Why is that lady in her 50s selling meat on the market after working in the Academy of Sciences for more than two decades? How do those three guys from Azerbaijan manage to bring tons for water melons to Moscow every week, what's the story of the Polish guy with his sausages in East London? What made the sociology student in your neighbourhood producing hand bags and sell them on the market?

* Flea markets involve bargaining. What was you best deal ever and how did you make it?

* How did your flea market change over time? What is the story behind, what rumours are going around? Any threat that it might be closed soon as the property is going to be sold or as a new utilisation concept has been approved by your City Council? Did you notice some degree of commercialisation when looking at items and prices on your market?

* Any thought or story about the concept of recycling and re-using?

We invite you to (re)discover the flea market, from any perspective that appeals to you. Share with us your thoughts, your opinions, your stories about flea markets, about your best ever flea market buys and the people you met during your shopping rite.

PLOTKI is looking for interesting contributions like stories, poems, photography, graphics, audio or video.

Submit to: fleamarket@plotki.net

Deadline: 10 November 2008

Please, consider our Guidelines for contributors at http://plotki. net/guidelines

Looking forward to your contributions,

Kristin and
Irina

PLOTKI is a project from around the bloc.

PLOTKI spreads rumours.

PLOTKI investigates our cultural sphere.

PLOTKI is interested in original reports, interviews, stories, research that cannot be found in other media.

PLOTKI encourages rumour hunting across Central and Eastern Europe.


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CfP: HUMANICUS academic journal - accepting contributions in new languages

Dear All,

the HUMANICUS academic journal is now accepting essays from academicians and students in several more languages. Enclosed please find the details.

About Humanicus

Humanicus is an academic journal concentrating on social sciences, humanities and philosophy, at the address www.humanicus. org.

Technically, essays that can be classified as belonging to any social science are accepted for review and potential publishing. For now, we are accepting works in following areas:

Linguistics (general linguistics, English studies, Serbocroatian studies, Swedish studies, Chinese studies)
Culture studies (sometimes referred to as culturology) and anthropology
Sociology
Philosophy

As the number of our reviewers grows, so will the count of the areas for which we accept essays.

The concept of Humanicus is, in its ideal form, to publish essays in any and all world languages. In practice, that means that articles shall be accepted for review and publishing in those languages for which we at the moment have proofreaders for. We naturally hope that the number of the languages will grow during time. For the time being, we are accepting articles in English, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese (Mandarin). As the number of languages grows, we will post information on the web page.

Humanicus is an electronic journal. The newest issue will always be downloadable in a .pdf format from this address, for free, as it is the opinion of the editor and the reviewing board that academic education should be available to all, not only to those with a deep pocket.

The journal comprises three parts:

1) The standard academic essay section
In this section, standard academic essays shall be published. Holders of any and all academic degrees are invited to submit their papers, in accordance with the current call for papers.

2) Reviews
Reviews of relevant books, essays, articles, even fiction books are accepted in this section.

3) The student section
Maybe even the most important of sections, the student section will concentrate on students, those who still have not achieved official academic expertise and still haven't received an academic title. The general idea is to promote academic writing amongst students. The level of expertise for academic writing is not easy to achieve, and students are seldom encouraged to write academically. This section should help students in honing their writing skills during the course of their studies. We invite all students (especially final-year students, seniors) to send us their essays. The essays shall be reviewed by a member of the reviewing board in accordance with the topic, after which the essay shall be sent back to the student with ideas and comments about how to make the essay better. Once the student has corrected the essay, he or she will resubmit, after which the review board will choose whether it will be published or not.

Srdjan Jovanovic, Dipl. Phil., M.A.
Editor-in-chief
HUMANICUS academic journal
www.humanicus. org

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Call for contributors: Relations between Russian & post-Soviet NGOs

The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies #9, December 2008

An electronic journal of social sciences

www.pipss.org

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: “Relations between Russian & post-Soviet NGOs and the Power Ministries”

Pipss.org is a new electronic journal of social sciences devoted to the armed forces and power institutions of post-Soviet societies. Pipss.org is a multi-disciplinary journal, which addresses issues across a broad field of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology, economics, history, legal science. Its main objective is to study changes and their underlying mechanisms in post-Soviet republics, through the analysis of the institutions that remain most hidden from the public eye: armies and power institutions. As an electronic journal,
pipss.org also aims to promote scholarly debate across as broad an audience as possible, and make CIS research available to Western scholars. Thanks to its international scientific board drawn from a large pool of leading academics and experts in their respective fields, it is in a position to become a leading source of analysis on post-Soviet societies. Pipss.org is a principal partner of the International Security Network (www.isn.ethz. ch ) and a member of the CNRS/EHESS scientific journals network Revues.org.

NINTH ISSUE: “Relations between Russian & post-Soviet NGOs and the Power Ministries”

The aim of this issue is to shed new light on the relations between Russian & Post-Soviet NGOs and what are known as the “power ministries” – the Defence and Interior Ministries, the Ministry of Justice, etc. – in areas such as justice (prisons, prisoners, judiciary reform, etc), the police (police brutality, etc.), the army (violence, veterans and post-military service care, etc.) border checks (immigration, etc.) and others.

During the Soviet era there were no independent associations and the only independent reports concerning the power ministries came from dissidents, victims of their strategies. After the fall of the USSR, two concomitant changes occurred: the power administrations opened onto society, claiming “civil control” of the army, for example, (a theme very popular at the end of the 1980s), and many independent associations wishing to work in cooperation with the power ministries were created. Today, 20 years after Perestroika, what has become of these relations? How have they evolved? Our main interest is the empirical analysis of the actual content of the work of these associations, but also the interactions themselves between the NGOs
and the power ministries. These are two themes we would like to explore in this issue.

Another subject of interest will be the NGOs that were to varying degrees “encouraged” to be set up and whose work can thus be “oriented” by the
administrations themselves, in particular by reactivating the notion of “civil control” over the army or the police, for example, but also more generally over matters concerning human rights.

Pipss.org therefore requests researchers in the social sciences to submit articles and in-depth interviews of NGO members, as well as their partners in the power ministries (members of various administrations: heads of police, prison directors, for example), in particular concerning the work they do in common and on their attitude towards this cooperation.

The editor of this issue would be particularly interested in a comparison between the work of NGOs in the big cities and those in provincial cities (for example, a comparison of Moscow/St. Petersburg NGOs with provincial ones such as in Nizhni-Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, etc.) – in the sense that in theory, smaller associations have less latitude and lesser means than large ones.

The editor would very much appreciate an introductory article on NGOs’ work in Russia in general.

Articles and interviews can cover the following subjects (among others):

The question of NGO access to power ministries

As mentioned above, working conditions are becoming more difficult for NGOs, with attacks taking various forms. A new regulatory law came into force in April 2006 which imposes the re-registering of all existing Russian and international associations and the tightening of administrative controls. NGOs are therefore faced with an overall law in their regard, which is becoming tougher. What is the situation for NGOs working with the power ministries? Are they liable to suffer from this law more than associations not working in these areas? Or on the contrary, are they protected by the civil servants they frequent? We observe that if they are tenacious enough, NGOs manage to be registered and to exist. A number of western countries might envy their work, which depends on the maintenance of a sizeable
network of personal relations. As a result, one wonders whether the access or non access of NGOs to power ministries does or doesn’t reflect the policy of the Russian state towards associations.

Relations of NGOs with the administration: the nature of their ties / rethinking these ties

The activities carried out by independent NGOs with power ministries take on various forms (training seminars, distribution of publications, information exchanges, etc.). We will study the very different levels of cooperation put in place with the administrations concerned (prisons, armed forces, police, etc.). Rationales of approach, of circumvention and cooperation will be taken into account. The aim will be to compare discourse and practice and to see whether the success of these relations does or does not depend on interpersonal relations.

Analysis of NGO discourse concerning their role

What types of discourse do NGOs produce concerning their activities? How do they define their practical aims, the relationship between those aims and the overall values they defend? What vision do they promote of their impact on political change? What are the possible conflicts between NGOs? Are they due to ideological differences, differences of approach, interpersonal rivalries? Does the past play a role in the legitimation of NGOs? How does the reference to modes of protest that appeared at the end of the Soviet period operate? Is reference to the past reflected in the presence of witnesses and actors, in the expression of an anti-establishment tradition, in specific modes of action, a specific reading of the political context?
Who are considered to be the founding fathers? Or on the contrary, is there a rejection of this period, is it simply brushed aside as something simply “comical”?

Transnational links

What kind of links exists between Russian and international NGOs in the field of cooperation with Russian power ministries? To what extent does the specificity of such cooperation give rise to tension with foreign partners? How do the subsidiaries of transnational NGOs function, and how do they adapt global aims to the reality of a specific context? How do we characterize the interactions between Russian NGOs linked to transnational ones, and Russian NGOs without these contacts: cooperation / conflict, equality / hierarchy?

Reasons behind power ministries’ cooperation with NGOs

We will also explore the reasons why representatives of the power ministries cooperate with local and international NGOs (trips abroad, modernity, chances of promotion?)

Institutional forms of cooperation with the power ministries

Finally, we will look at attempts on the part of the state to put in place institutionalized forms of cooperation with power ministries, with the creation of social platforms, the social chamber (Obshchestvennaia Palata), the reactivation of pro-governmental associations replacing “transmission belts” between the power ministries and society (GONGOs such as the Council of Soldiers’ Parents). We will analyze to what extent these new governmental institutions use Soviet practices and to what extent they modernize them.

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Guidelines for article submission

The journal will be published in four languages (French, English, Russian, and German with a 100-word abstract in English) thanks to which most authors will be able to write in their mother tongue. This will ensure greater precision in the articles and avoid a decrease in scientific quality. But we draw your attention to the fact that most pipss.org readers are essentially English speakers, therefore we do encourage articles in English in order to reach an audience as broad as possible.

The articles submitted to pipss.org for publication should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Manuscripts should be attached as Microsoft Word format. References should be given in footnotes. (For more details about the guidelines for article submission please check www.pipss.org or contact the Editorial Board). There should be a cover page stating the author's background and affiliation, full address.

If you wish to submit an article, please first contact the editorial board and send a 100-word abstract in English. The deadline for article submission is June 15, 2008, with publication in December 2008. Final decisions on publication will be made by the Editorial Board.

Please send your contributions or inquiries to:

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Chief Editor, contact@pipss. org

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (9th Issue Editor)

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Papers dealing with other issues related to armies and power institutions in
the CIS, as well as book review proposals are also welcome.

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REVIEWS

Publishers interested in publicizing their editions, please send review
copies to:

Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

15 rue Charlot

75003 Paris, France

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Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

Chief Editor

The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies

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Editorial Board: Eden Cole, Anna Colin Lebedev, Françoise Dauce, Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Anne Le Huerou, Erica Marat, Laurent Rucker, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Joris Van Bladel

Scientific Board: Adrian Beck (UK), Alexander Belkin (Russia), Frederic Charillon (France), Stephen Cimbala (USA), Julian Cooper (UK), Roger Mc Dermott (UK), Isabelle Facon (France), Mark Galeotti (UK), Aleksandr Gol'ts (Russia), Dale Herspring (USA), Philippe Manigart (Belgium), Kimberly Zisk Marten (USA), Michael Orr (UK), Michael Parrish (USA), Nikolay Petrov (Russia), Eduard Ponarin (Russia), Jean-Christophe Romer (France), Jacques Sapir (France), Manfred Sapper (Germany), Louise Shelley (USA), Richard Staar (USA), Brian Taylor (USA), Mikhail Tsypkin (USA), Stephen Webber (UK), Elena Zdravomyslova (Russia).

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Call for contributions, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies

Dear Colleagues,

Every year the Modern Humanities Research Association publishes a critical bibliography entitled The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. The book runs to over 1000 pages, and aims to cover scholarship in all the European languages (language and literature) in the past year. We are currently looking for contributors in the following Slavonic fields:

Russian language
Russian literature to 1800
Czech literature
Slovak Studies
Polish language
Ukrainian Studies
Belarussian Studies
Serbo-Croat Studies
Bulgarian Studies

Contributions should take the form of a bibliography with critical comment, where appropriate, and should be about 4000 words long (in English). The MHRA is also able to provide a small fee for these contributions. For further information please contact me. Firm expressions of interest should take the form of a brief (ie no more than 2 pp.) CV, to be sent to me.

Best wishes,
Professor David Gillespie
Professor, Russian Studies
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Email: D.C.Gillespie@ bath.ac.uk

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