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Subject: Call for Plotki Journal June 2007 Online Issue on Transit/ion!


> Dear colleagues,
> do you think you can contribute in the form of (in)formal article(s) or 
> photos?
> Many thanks
> Oleksandr Svyetlov
> Svyetlov@gmail.com
>
> Call for Plotki Journal June 2007 Online Issue on
>
> Transit/ion!
>
> (accounting for the past, analysing the present, envisaging the future)
>
>
> Invitation for contributions
>
> The call is open to all original theoretical, empirical, textual, visual, 
> photographic, academic, journalistic and artistic contributions from 
> social disciplines such as transitology, political science, sociology, 
> international relations, history, art, journalism and other which address 
> the issues described below. Encouraged are of course themes referring to 
> CSEE and fSU region with comparative and analytical-descriptive approaches 
> dealing with both state and process of Transit/ion.
>
> Clarification of concepts:
>
> Transition - movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, 
> subject, concept, etc., to another. Although in present context it applies 
> specifically to the post-Soviet (or what is called in the West 
> post-Communist) transformation on societal, political, institutional, etc. 
> levels (democratization, liberalisation, pri(h)vatisation, etc) in 
> Central/South/Eastern Europe (CSEE,) and the rest of former Soviet Union 
> (fSU).
>
> Transit - the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one 
> place to another, conveyance or transportation from one place to another, 
> as of persons or goods, also,
> a transition or change. Transit is a more general term applying also to 
> physical movement, such as migration.
>
> Transitology - an academic discipline studing the process of change from 
> one political regime to another, mainly from authoritarian to democratic 
> in the context of CSEE and fSU.
>
> In short, Transit/ion is political, social, economic, moral, (in)visible, 
> (im)material change of shape or form, movement in space or time, which 
> also includes temporal and special antagonism, contradiction, comparison 
> and interplay of (f)actors.
>
> Keywords:
>
> Empire - nation state / Totalitarianism - democracy / Planned economy - 
> free market / The shifting role of state: changing and creating of 
> institutions / Shift of political preferences and opinions of the 
> electorate and elite / Elections - policies
>
> EU as a change-promoting agent / Which way and to what extent do East and 
> West change? / Where is Europe going / Flow(s) of goods, people(s), ideas 
> within Europe and Eurasia
>
> Order - anarchy: the nature of stability / Progress - regress / Limits and 
> pace of change / State and process: means and ends
>
> Wealth - poverty / Prosperity - decay / Elite - the rest / Mobility within 
> social strata: attainability of classical capitalism dreams
>
> Local - global - glocal / Religion - atheism  / Immateriality - 
> materiality / Old - new / Life - death / Process of acquiring or losing 
> experience or pertinence
>
> Preliminary deadline is 27 April 2007. Please send your contributions of 
> max. 2.500 words in English for reviewing to: Oleksandr Svyetlov 
> Svyetlov@gmail.com  PLOTKI WEBSITE: www.plotki.net