[ecrea] Call for Papers for the volume "A Life for Tomorrow - Social Transformations in South-East Europe"

Call for Papers for the volume “A Life for Tomorrow – Social 
Transformations in South-East Europe”

Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” Skopje (Macedonia), Centre 
for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe (Serbia), Social 
Research Kosova (Kosovo) and Centre for Social Research “Analitika” 
(Bosnia-Herzegovina) are issuing a call for papers to be published in 
the volume “A Life for Tomorrow – Social Transformations in South-East 
Europe”. Priority will be given to papers presented at the “Lost in 
Transition” conference held on July 6th and 7th, 2013 in Skopje, but 
other submitted papers will also be given due consideration. The 
deadline for submissions is January 20th, 2014. Publication is expected 
by the end of June 2014.

Transitional change in the past two decades is only part of an unending 
sequence of socio-politico-economic changes which the countries of the 
South-East European region have been undergoing for the past 100 years. 
Older members of these communities have often, without changing their 
place of residence, been citizens of many different states and 
experienced multiple changes of political systems, ideologies, 
constitutions, legal systems, and accompanying institutions, and they 
have borne witness to the creation of entire new social classes and 
strata and the destruction of old ones. This continuous vortex of 
transformation, which prevents the stabilization of social structure, 
and which makes official institutions particularly fragile and thwarts 
strategic action, has been accompanied by an almost incredible inability 
of these societies to change and a surprising stability of social 
practices. It is as if wars, revolutions, and the dissolution of entire 
world-orders create waves on the surface of the practices of these 
societies, which then quickly revert to their established course. It is 
precisely this interplay between head-spinning change in official social 
institutions and extraordinary stability of social practices that we are 
interested in. We are inviting political scientists, sociologists, 
anthropologists, historians, social psychologists, legal experts, 
political economists to take part in the consideration of social, 
political, economic, legal, cultural, religious, familial, demographic, 
educational, media changes in the South-East European societies.

Papers should be written in English, a maximum of 6000 words in length 
(excluding the bibliography), Times New Roman font, 12 points,  contain 
an abstract of 300 words, as well as up to five key words, in the text, 
following the abstract. Brief biographies of contributing authors (150 
words per contributing author) should likewise be submitted. Other 
formatting requirements (quotations, bibliography) will be supplied to 
the authors of selected papers. Papers should be sent in electronic 
format to the address (lft /at/ idscs.org.mk) or (cesk2010 /at/ gmail.com). Articles 
will be reviewed by international experts.

This volume will be published as part of the project “Resistance to 
Socio-Economic Changes in Western Balkan Societies. Testing Two Theories 
of Social Development" which has been realized within the Regional 
Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP), run by the 
University of Fribourg upon a mandate of the Swiss Agency for 
Development and Cooperation, SDC, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

For any additional information, please send an E-mail to the organizers: 
(lft /at/ idscs.org.mk) or (cesk2010 /at/ gmail.com)

Please feel free to circulate this call for papers to anyone you think 
might be interested.

Predrag Cveticanin

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