CFP:Childhood spaces and material culture in Latin America (XIX and XX centuries)
Type: Call for Papers
Date: November 30, 2016
Location: Mexico
Subject Fields: Childhood and Education, Contemporary History, Cultural History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies
Call for academic papers
“Childhood spaces and material culture in Latin America (XIX and XX centuries)”
Secuencia. Revista
de Historiay Ciencias Sociales, edited by the Instituto de
Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, contributes to its field of
expertise by occasionally publishing special themed editions coordinated
by senior researchers in addition to its regular editions. These
editions are a collection of original papers which, due to their
thematic affinity, address certain issues from a specific point of view,
allowing for deeper analysis of certain topics.
On this
occasion, specialists are invited to submit research papers that are
unedited, original and have been produced as a result of the evaluation
of primary sources, to be included in the special edition on the topic
of: “Childhood spaces and material culture in Latin America (19th and
20th centuries)” coordinated by Dr. Beatriz Alcubierre Moya and Dr.
Susana Sosenski, which will be published in January 2018.
Over the
past decade, the study of childhood has begun to make headway in the
field of Latin American historiography in an increasingly instrumental
way, establishing its independence from other academic traditions such
as the history of education and the history of the family. This has
given rise to the adoption of a wide variety of approaches, framed
between social and cultural history, which allow issues to be addressed
such as the construction of the concept of childhood, the definition and
redefinition of age groups, and the development of sex-generic
identities. In addition, links have been determined with very current
topics such as health, demography, homelessness, crime, discrimination,
violence, bullying, employment, gambling and consumerism among many
others.
Given the number of topics that are directly and
indirectly linked to the history of childhood, this call for papers is
limited to a specific line of study. The special edition
of Secuencia will bededicated to the analysis of the spaces and material
culture that were designed, constructed and developed for children in
Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries: amusement parks,
shopping malls, schools, libraries, and children’s rooms in addition to
objects, furniture, books, magazines, clothes, toys and so on, which led
to the reshaping of the notions of childhood and child practices. All
of this was framed in political, economic and social contexts largely
determined by the development of the consumerist society. The objective
of this dossier is to compile a collection of papers which discuss the
relationship between spaces, material culture and childhood in the
creation of everyday life and child identities in the Latin American
context, contributing to the development and consolidation of a
historiographical tradition focusing on the study of childhood.
The
papers must adhere to the guidelines of the
journal Secuencia (regarding length, academic quality and publishing
criterion), available for consultation at the following website:
The
deadline for the submission of papers is November 30 2016. Papers will
be submitted to a double-blind review. The entire process of the
reception of papers and reviews will be carried out by the OJS
publishing administrator. The coordinators responsible for this special
edition will conduct a previous selection of papers before submitting
them for review with the help of Secuencia journal’sEditorial
Committee. The result of the review is not open to appeal. Those
papers which are not selected for publication in the special edition
will be considered for a regular issue of the journal.
Mailing address: secuencia@institutomora.edu.mx