[Gesth-l] CFP 25 years later: The New Europe

[Peto Andrea Dr]

Call for papers
Deadline: 30 September 2013
Special issue: 25 years later: The New Europe
Editors: Kornelia Slavova and Barbara Einhorn
What is the ‘New Europe’? Does it describe more accurately the new member states of the EU or has it simply replaced the label the ‘Other Europe’ that used to designate the countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War? Until now, this term has suggested a hierarchy of unequal partners, constructed through binaries such as: ‘East’ and ‘West’; the EU and the ‘others’, the ‘bordering’ or ‘candidate’ countries; the established versus the ‘new’ and somehow – in this perception – ‘unfinished’ democracies; the supposedly successful market economies versus those economies on the periphery – whether that be to the east or to the south – which are perceived as either struggling or as liabilities, as somehow responsible for the crisis in the eurozone. This special issue suggests that the term ‘New Europe’ could signal a context in which we cease to conceptualise Europe as a relationship of masters and subalterns, but rather as a single entity or at least a project of desire for inclusivity, in which all European countries participate on an equal footing.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the political, economic, and cultural landscapes in both former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe and Europe as a whole have been radically transformed, not least due to the persistent dominance of unhelpful neo-liberal conceptions of the state as problematic, a constraint on enterprise and creativity, while the unfettered market is conceived of as an unmitigated good. This special issue of The European Journal of Women’s Studies explores the gendered consequences of the social, political and cultural transformations within the context of the overall crisis currently affecting Europe as a whole.
Over the past 25 years women in both Central and Eastern Europe, and in ‘Western’ (Northern and Southern) Europe, have shown incredible survival skills in times of social instability. However, traditional notions of masculinity and male-dominated economic sectors have also been decimated. Yet while there have been shifts in gender roles and imaginings, they have not substantially altered the imbalances in gender relations as relations of power. Moreover, feminism continues to be met with suspicion and resistance in the former Soviet bloc, while there is a considerable ‘backlash’ against feminist political projects in Western Europe. What have women lost and what have they gained in the last two and a half decades of historic changes? How have notions of masculinity and femininity changed? In what ways has the diminished role of state and public social provision affected cultural and social perceptions, impacted on gender relations at the societal, family and personal level?
Prof. Dr. habil. Andrea Peto

http://www.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/andrea_peto
Papers available at: http://ceu.academia.edu/AndreaPeto
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