JOURNAL/CFP- Political and Social Role of Veterans in Russia, USSR, etc.
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LAST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS:
The Political and Social Role of Veterans in Russia, the Soviet-Union
and Post-Soviet States: a Sociology of War Veterans
The Journal of Power Institutions in Pot-Soviet Societies, pipss.org
This issue will focus on the veterans of Russian, Soviet, and
Post-Soviet wars from a comparative as well as multidisciplinary
perspective.
We are interested in different levels of analysis: macro (the state
and national public policies), meso (social and political
organisations) and micro (on the individual level).
Few approaches to war pay much attention to ex-servicemen and to the
emergence of these new players: most often, veterans are perceived in
terms of the well-known triptych "disarmament, demobilisation,
reintegration", or from the anthropologists' point of view– the cult
of heroes and martyrs. Although we will include these approaches in
our issue, we hope to explore new angles of thought, such as the
institutional and social dimensions inherent in the aftermaths of war,
and to study the legal, social, political and symbolic markers of the
war veteran population.
Thus, the emergence of ex-combatants as a distinct social group and
the political and social role they play will be understood thanks to a
study of how various political actors (the state and the security
apparatuses in particular) contribute to the perpetuation of this
group, but also to the group's own formulation of its interests and
how it sees itself.
We will study veteran populations from the federal armed forces as
well as from the many armies attached to the Russian and Post-Soviet
power ministries and secret service agencies.
The periods of time and geographic areas covered are: World War II,
Afghanistan, the two Chechen wars, Tajikistan, Abkhazia, and the
Karabakh war. The comparison will be extended to Africa, Kurdistan,
the Balkans, Israel, etc.
The editors would like to have the following issues covered:
1) The State and Public Policy Concerning Veterans
2) The constitution of associations and groups of veterans
A) The constitution of new social groups based on the common
experience of violence
B) Ex-servicemen's movements
C) From association to politics: veterans and politics
3) Individuals seeking a place in society
A) The psychological consequences of the war experience
B) Memorials, folklore and songs: study of the symbolic markers of
the veteran population
a) Monuments and memorials: the treatment of various wars
b) Folklore, songs and literary works
c) Analysis of the cinematographic representation of regional
wars.
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 an 100-word abstract in English. The deadline for
article submission is September 10, 2007, with publication in
December. Final decisions on publication will be made by the Editorial
Board.
Please send your abstracts, contributions or inquiries to:
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Chief Editor, contact@pipss.org
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