Victims, survivors, mourners, re-constructors:
*Southeast Asian responses to massive social destruction*
In the last decades Southeast Asia has experienced civil wars as well as major “natural” disasters (typhoons, earthquakes and tsunamis). This issue of SEAR focusses on the aftermath of such massive collective deaths, especially seen in the long period. We examine what happens after environmental, social and human destruction has happened with its load of psychological, physical and social suffering. More precisely, we are interested in how Southeast Asian societies live after catastrophes, what processes they go through in order to make sense of the disaster and to cope with the destruction.
We would like to call the applicants' attention onto a few common themes: *Social resilience* (including the discussion of the concept); *Categories of suffering*; *Policies of memory*; *Helping and being helped*.
The core of this special issue consists of papers presented in 2010 6th Euroseas Conference (Gotheborg, 27th-29th August). We would now like to invite more scholars to contribute to the issue. The schedule is tight as the publication is expected in june 2012.
Deadline for proposals: *15th january *
Deadline for submission of full articles (max. 10.000 words, abstract and bibliographical references included): *15th March *Abstract should be about 400 words long and clearly state a theoretical issue and the context it is going to be examined within. The result of the proposal will be communicated within 5 days from the deadline of submission.
Contributions about all Southeast Asian areas will be fully considered, but we especially encourage scholars writing about peninsular and insular Southeast Asia.
For further information contact the guest editors
Anne Guillou (researcher, CNRS, Paris, France) and Silvia Vignato (lecturer, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
anne.guillou / at / vjf.cnrs / dot / fr
silvia.vignato / at / unimib / dot / it