Call for Papers: The Anthropology of East Europe Review (AEER) is now
accepting submissions for the Spring 2012 issue.

The Special Issue section theme for the Spring 2012 issue is ?The
?Chernobyl Syndrome?. The Disaster?s legacies in Postsocialist Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union.?

Deadlines: February 5, 2012 (abstracts due); March 16, 2012 (drafts of
selected papers due).

Chernobyl has become a buzzword in 2011 ? not only because of the 25th
anniversary of the disaster, but even more due to the international
focus on the recent damage to the Japanese nuclear power plants in
Fukushima. As early as the 10th anniversary of the disaster, the
Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich declared that Chernobyl had
already become ?a metaphor, a symbol?. The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear
accident has indeed become a manifold metaphor for many issues ?
whether directly related to the disaster or not. At the heart of these
issues lies a deep uncertainty, undermining belief in technological
progress, our ability to control risky technologies and the relative
security of everyday life. But even 26 years after the disaster
scholarship on the societal and political consequences of Chernobyl is
still marginal. In this special issue section we welcome all
submissions relating to the social and political effects of Chernobyl
in Postsocialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Of
particular interest is research on reactions and perceptions of
different communities, identity and citizenship formation processes
after Chernobyl, memory and commemoration, perceptions of risk,
health, certainty and security, as well as depictions of the disaster
(literature, music, games, movies etc.), and political and societal
commitment after Chernobyl.

Please send in electronic form (preferably MS Word), an abstract of no
more than 250 words and a short (one paragraph) biography by February
5 to Dr. Melanie Arndt: arndt@zzf-pdm.de. Those authors selected to
submit complete papers (up to 6,000 words) will be asked to do so by
March 16.

The Anthropology of East Europe Review (AEER), a publication of the
East European Anthropology Group, is a biannual edited journal of
scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, the Balkans, and Central Asia.
Our mission is to showcase fresh, up-to-date research and to help
build a community of scholars who focus on the region.