The Radical History Review, an independent, academic
journal of history, politics, and culture published by Cambridge
University Press, plans a special issue for Fall 1998 devoted to
the theme of CULTURE AND POVERTY. This issue is conceived as
both a political and scholarly intervention. It will present
work that examines the production of poverty through political,
economic, and cultural practices; illuminates the ways in which
discourses on poverty and wealth have been shaped, controlled,
and deployed; and suggests how scholars on the left might
intervene in public debates on the production of wealth and
poverty within and across national boundaries.
We seek papers which:
-examine the role of culture in the construction and
representation of poverty and wealth
-investigate the ideological workings of hierarchies of race,
ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality within popular
representations of poverty
-study cultural representations of poverty and processes of
cultural imperialism with a transnational or comparative
perspective
-explore how dominant discourses on poverty have been contested
and reconstructed within poor communities
-Challenge narratives and ideologies that criminalize and
pathologize poor people
-make connections between representations of poverty and policy
making processes
-investigate narratives of assimilation and upward mobility in
the construction of race and class
-examine the cultural production of poverty through photography,
fine art, literature, film, video, television, music and other
cultural forms
-suggest strategies for intervention in public debates on poverty
and culture including submissions which experiment with
alternative forms for diverse audiences
-adress methods for teaching courses that deal with these issues
Please send submissions to Managing Editor, Radical History
Review, Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York,
New York 10012.
Inquiries to Adina Back or Kevin Murphy at aqb2865@is2.nyu.edu or
to the RHR office at 212-998-2632.
Submission deadline: November 15, 1996