FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > January 1, 2001: The Culture of the New West: > > The co-editors and University of Utah Press would like to make a final > call for papers to join an innovative and provocative set of essays in an > anthology examining the culture, history, politics, and commodification of > the 'New West.' The working title of this series of essays is "Imagining > the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West." We seek out > essays that illuminate a West in which SUV's and an REI card exist in > symbiosis with the Wilderness movement and a Sierra Club membership; a > West in which the symbols of authentic identity shift from cowboy hats to > a North Face jacket. Possible categories will involve: "Tasting the West" > including essays revolving around the development of the aesthetic West, > from the New West haute cuisine of elk tenderloin with huckleberry sauce, > to architecture and unobstructed and consumed landscapes; "The Politics of > Patagonia" which would include topics revolving around nature and > recreation; "Selling the West," which would contain papers examining the > commodification of the New West, from New Age Westerners, Western kitsch > and the Nissan SUV (complete with first aid kit for outdoor > recreationalists), to the narrative of Outside magazine; and "Scripting > the West" which would include essays examining the narrative of the New > West in film and in the explosion of recent works of Western literature, > much of which place the land at the center of a Western identity and > sensibility. This section might also include essays on how celebrities, > from John Denver in Colorado to Robert Redford in Utah or Ted Turner in > Montana, produce their own particular Western spaces. Contributors may > adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their material. Papers should be no > more than 25 pages in length, (not including end notes), scholarly and > analytical but accessible to a wide readership and of interest to scholars > in many academic disciplines. The anthology will include essays by > academics specializing in Western History and Studies, Environmental > History or Cultural Studies, along with writers and essayists who have > focused on western topics in their work. Please send completed work to > Liza Nicholas-8891 Bridger Canyon Road, Bozeman, MT 59715. E-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
