<bold>Deadline extended</bold>
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Southwest Ranching area of The Southwest Ranching
Area of The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association
Its regional conference will take place:
March 7-10, 2001
Sheraton Oldtown Hotel
Albuquerque, NM 87104 (505) 843-6300 (1-800-237-2133 for
reservations)
As an Area Chair, I am seeking panels and individual papers reporting
original observation and research as well as synthesizing research on
all aspects of Southwest agriculture and ranching, broadly conceived.
I am especially interested in papers and panels that report on the
cultural contexts and responses to the changing face of commodity-based
agriculture and ranching in the greater American Southwest. For
example, a number of inventive ranchers have developed various
strategies to enable them to keep their land: dude ranching, energy
credit ranching, wildlife ranching, hunting preserves, bat watching,
tourist farming-you get the idea-as well as niche or speciality farming
and ranching that is still commodity based.
Additional possible topics may include but are not limited to the
following:
Water, ecology, conservation and other issues of contemporary SW
ranching/farming
Land tenure issues, taxes, and family
Role of vaquero in Southwestern ranching culture
Cross-cultural influences on Southwestern ranching
Contemporary Southwestern ranching
Rodeos, country clubs, and barbecues and other rural "traditions" in
the urban
Southwest
Southwestern ranching folklore, traditions
History of ranching in the Southwest or of a particular ranch
Women in ranching in the Southwest
Sense of place in Southwestern literature
Ranching culture in Southwestern literature
Histories, diaries, personal accounts of Southwestern ranching
Borders and other liminal spaces
Ranches, ranchettes, and politics
Race, racism, realism
Southwest ranching in film
Dude and other "exotic" ranches
The Blue and other important rivers in southwest ranch life
"IMUS" and other ranches for ill or "problem" children
NOTE: NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE--
Send 200-word abstract of your 20-minute paper or presentation before
January 19, 2001 to me, Theodore C. Humphrey. I prefer e-mail to
<underline>tchumphrey@csupomona.edu</underline> with the proposal in
the body of the e-mail:
or snail mail to:
Dr. Theodore C. Humphrey
Area Chair
Professor of English
9858 Via Esperanza
Alta Loma, CA 91737
This will be a great conference. For full information about the
meeting and sign up forms go to http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca
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