Histarchers,
Please see the CFP below, placed at Paul Shackel's request.
Apologies for cross posting.
Dave Gadsby
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Subject: [Wac] Call for papers - Working Class Heritage
> CALL FOR ARTICLES
>
> Title: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
>
> Class is not dead! Many people are actively using working class heritage
> as a resource to reflect on the past, reassess the present, and plan for
> the future. At the beginning of the 21st century there is a growing
> tendency for the heritage of working class people to be interpreted and
> presented to the public in museums and heritage sites. Working class
> communities and organizations are also playing an active role in creating
> a memory of their own past. In this proposed volume we aim to theorize and
> document this phenomenon as an under-represented form of cultural
> heritage.
>
> Drawing on new scholarship in heritage studies, social memory, the public
> history of labour, and new working class studies, this volume will
> highlight the heritage of working people, communities and organizations.
> We particularly urge community and labour movement activists, and scholars
> committed to civic engagement who are working closely with working class
> communities or organizations, to submit abstracts.
>
> Studies for this volume can include interpretation of working class
> communities, working life, industrial heritage or working class culture.
> Museums and other forms of formal and informal presentation of the working
> class, as well as places to remember and celebrate the labour movement,
> are also important topics. Articles dealing with intangible forms of
> labour heritage including music, art, skills, workplace experiences, oral
> histories, celebrations and festivals are encouraged. We particularly
> welcome contributions from those - be they academics, trade unionists or
> working class community activists - who explicitly mount challenges to the
> received wisdom of the representation of 'heritage' as belonging to the
> elite, and who foreground working class experience and
> self-representation. Articles that can place these themes in explicit
> comparative and international perspective are also most welcome.
>
> Word length: 5000-6000 inclusive of bibliography.
>
> The Editors of the volume are Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell
> (University of York, UK: [log in to unmask]) and Paul Shackel (University of
> Maryland US: [log in to unmask]). The volume has an advanced contract
> from Routledge as part of their new Key Issues in Cultural Heritage series
> (http://www.routledge.com/books/series/Key_Issues_in_Cultural_Heritage),
> which is under the General Editorship of William Logan and Laurajane
> Smith, and is publishing cutting edge and innovative work in heritage
> studies.
>
> Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be sent for consideration,
> together with a 50 word biography, by March 31st to: [log in to unmask] with
> the view to producing first drafts of papers by the end of September 2009.
> Note submissions will be subject to peer review.
>
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David A. Gadsby
Assistant Director
Center for Heritage Resource Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland
1125 Woods Hall
College Park, MD 20742
301-405-0085
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