No. 1/2008 Imperial Exceptionalisms: Mechanisms and Discourses
Discourses and mythologies of exceptionalism in representations of empires Politics of comparison in studies of empires: the promise and limits of postcolonialism and the problem of translatability of historiographies of empires Exceptional-ism as an operative mode of empires: empires as hierarchies of legal, social and cultural particularisms and exceptions Uniformity and individuation in governance and cultural encounters in the imperial space Benevolent, modernizing and oppressive empire: the Russian/Soviet "mission" in the East, the West, and the world The making of social and cultural differences as a practice of imperial governance Historiographies of imperial exceptionalisms and national Sonderwege Localizing globalization: contested meanings of the post-Soviet and Eurasian space Is a comprehensive theory of empire possible? Overcoming exceptionalist languages of self-description Regional and national exceptionalisms as practices of difference-building Entangled experience of empire: communication and learning from different imperial ventures * "Gardening state" as a metaphor in the context of imperial and post-imperial histories.
No. 2/2008 Gardening the Imperial Subject: Intimate and Collective in the Imperial Space
Social practices of subjecthood in the imperial and national space Biographies of transitional selves: between old imperial and new national elites The site of difference and uniformity: the imperial army as an instrument of gardening the imperial subject Regulating family, reproduction, and nurture: mixed marriages, family, and children in imperial and national space Upbringing of imperial subjects: pedagogy of unity and diversity Education, reform, and citizenship: between imperial and national subjects Rractices of socialization in ethnically diverse milieus: mimicry, translation, and assimilation The intimate of imperial and national subjecthood: emotions, attachments, loyalties Intimate relations and collective subjects: agents and objects of gardening in imperial and national space Imperial minds: psychiatric discourses in the empire Religiosity and subjectivity: confessional and interconfessional practices of the self.
No. 3/2008 Vandalizing the Garden: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Imperial Space
Between anarchy and tyranny: theoretical problems of violence understood as a social and political phenomenon in a heterogeneous space Social engineering as violent interventionism Rationalization and standardization as repression Violence as the language of local exceptionalism and uniqueness The rationality and irrationality of violence in culturally divided space Jewish pogroms; exterminations of small nationalities; social landscapes of war zones and ethnic conflicts Violence as a “legitimate” politics: political terrorism and imperial and national tensions Genocides, deportations and traumatic experience of ethnic conflicts The ambiguity of the concept of criminality in the empire: drawing and violating cultural, social and political borders Violence as a social practice of vertical and horizontal communications in the empire Imposing languages: symbolic violences in imperial and national spaces.
No. 4/2008 Nature and Nurture: Ecology of Imperial Gardens
Organic metaphors of the social order Discourses of environmental determinism: from Arnold Toynbee to Lev Gumilev The emergence of environmental thought in imperial and national discourses Ecology, sanitation, and empire: landscaping national and imperial spaces Ecological disasters or imperial triumphs: colonization, depletion of resources, re-making of spaces Ecological limits of expansion and adaptation of imperial rule Ecology of communications in the expansion and integration of empires Regionalism through the prism of environmental history Hygienic and sanitary projects in empire and nations across the 1917 divide Rationalizations of imperial spaces and the trope of preservation of archaic authenticity Postcolonial claims on bodies and territories.
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