[KS] CALL FOR PAPERS FOR KOREAN HISTORIES

[Remco Breuker]

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR *KOREAN HISTORIES*


*Korean Histories* is a peer-reviewed on-line academic journal that is about
to publish issue 2.2. *Korean Histories *focuses on historiography as a
social process in Korea and is devoted to research that heavily relies on
other sources than the conventional written historical sources and
highlights the role these unconventional sources play in the formation of
historical visions of groups, communities and both non-professional and
professional historians.


History is alive on the Korean peninsula. Contentious historical issues
mobilize crowds, infuse political debates and rally netizens in fierce
internet discussions. In popular media representations of history are
recurrent features. In a society with a tradition of tracing legitimacy in
historical precedent, social players always have felt a need to engage
history for the sake of their cause. From professional historians to
journalists, from novelists to activists, from politicians to religious
leaders, from students to artists, all are (re-)producers of
historiographies in and of Korea.

Methodologically sound and empirically solid histories produced by
professional historians based on "authoritative" sources coexist in such a
landscape with more informal, intuitive, often fluid and highly contextual
understandings of history, creating alternative Korean histories.



*Korean Histories* publishes articles that engage these fields of
historiographical production, where different players interact and influence
each other, creating a web of variations and diversions from
"standard/authoritative" national history.



The editors of *Korean Histories* invite submissions based on original
research responding to the theme of historiography as social practice in
Korea in the broadest sense possible, regardless of period, subject or
angle. We welcome interdisciplinary or comparative submissions, and
particularly submissions that rely on unconventional sources (such as music,
art, religious concepts, movies, the internet, blogs, advertisements or
literary texts), which –copyright laws permitting- may be published
alongside the article in digital format.


<http://goog_416847547>

www.koreanhistories.org <http://www.koreanhistories.org%20>



Boudewijn Walraven, editor in chief

Ken Wells, editor in chief

Kwŏn Hŭiyŏng, editor in chief



Koen De Ceuster, managing editor

Remco Breuker, managing editor



Please send your inquiries on how to contribute to
k.de.ceuster at hum.leidenuniv.nl or r.e.breuker at hum.leidenuniv.nl
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