Online journal Re-public would like to invite contributions for its upcoming special issue entitled “Drachma; Collective Identity and Symbolic Value”. Relevant submissions could concern the following topics:
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The history of the Drachma and how this history relates to the present crisis;
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The construction of Greek-ness and its representations, and how such representations are communicated in currency;
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An analysis of the self-perceptions and self-representations of Greek-ness before and after the economic collapse of the state;The relation between economic value and its possible representations and how the former is supported by such representations;
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The nexus between economic and political community. How does the discourse on identity connects the political with the economic?
The length of the essays should be between 1,500 – 1,800 words.
e-mail: languagegames@gmail.com or editors@re-public.gr
DEADLINE 15.09.2011
Mar 18 -
Drachma Project Call for Papers to be Published on re-public.gr
Drachma is a research initiative, involving artists and theorists across disciplines, with an interest in the Greek economic reality and the Greek currency as a manifestation of this reality. We are investigating the Drachma as a symbol of economic value, national identity and political power, as they are expressed historically in the imagery of the currency. The iconographic and the symbolic representations of the Drachma, in the concrete syntactic context of notes and coins, provide a specific frame of reference to our analysis of Greece today. Our methodology includes archival research, art, economic theory, political design, psychoanalysis ... Our production will culminate into a symposium, an exhibition, and a publication.
