Call for Contributions – Beyond Exoticism: Rethinking Southwest China
Special feature for China Perspectives
Guest editors:
Peter Guangpei Ran (pran@nju.edu.cn), Assistant Research Fellow at Institute for Social Anthropology, Nanjing University
Paul Kendall (p.kendall1@westminster.ac.uk), Senior Lecturer in Chinese studies, University of Westminster
Deadline for abstracts: 2 August 2024
Deadline for papers: 1 March 2025
Since the 1980s, southwest China has enjoyed considerable academic attention, including a particular focus on representations and everyday practices relating to the many “ethnic minorities” within this region (e.g., Oakes 1998; Rees 2000; Harrell 2001; Mueggler 2001). While important theoretical tools, such as the notion of internal orientalism (Schein 2000), have subsequently emerged, recent years have seen a decline in the profile of southwest China in English-language academia and beyond. At the same time, a major shift in ethnic policy and governance, the deepening of infrastructural development, the intensification of translocal exchanges encouraged by global economy, and the unprecedented measures to tackle environmental issues have all profoundly affected this region, which continues to be remembered, imagined, practiced and contested in discursive and material terms. This special feature for China Perspectives aims to renew scholarly attention towards the historical complexity and contemporary transformation of southwest China, as well as put forward new ways of thinking about and researching the southwest as indispensable to wider understandings of China today.
For the full CfP, please see https://www.cefc.com.hk/call-for-contributions-beyond-exoticism-rethinking-southwest-china/.
Paul Kendall <p.kendall1@westminster.ac.uk>