The 2028 issue of the Rural History Yearbook (open access, peer-reviewed, papers in German and English) will focus on industry in rural areas, deindustrialisation since the 1970s, and politics of memory. We invite proposals for contributions by 6 September 2026.
Read more about Call for Papers: Industry in the Post-Fordist VillageVolume 22/2025 “Agro-Food Change through the Lens of Soy: (Sub-)National Pathways in a Global Perspective” is edited by Ernst Langthaler (Linz) and Markus Schermer (Innsbruck).
Volume 21/2024 “Rural Films” is edited by Peter Moser (Bern), Brigitte Semanek (St. Pölten) and Andreas Wigger (Bern).
Volume 20/2023 “Historic cadastres in Europe – Source material and state of research” is edited by Kurt Scharr and Gerhard Siegl (Innsbruck).
Volume 19/2022 “Ruralities in the Making: Space – Media/Translation – Materiality” is edited by Dietlind Hüchtker, Claudia Kraft, and Margareth Lanzinger (Vienna).
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The thematic scope of the Rural History Yearbook/Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes 2024 (https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/rhy) is “Rural films”.
Read more about Call for Papers: JGLR 2014 Rural films – Filme in der ländlichen GesellschaftThis special issue edited by Georg Fertig and Sandro Guzzi-Heeb deals with genealogies between popular practices and academic research.
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Read more about New issue: JGLR/RHY 18 (2021) „Genealogies“The upcoming volume edited by Georg Fertig and Sandro Guzzi-Heeb deals with genealogies between popular practices and academic research.
Read more about Preview: RHY/RHY 2021 „Genealogien“Starting with Volume 17 (2020), the Rural History Yearbook/Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes is published open access in the Golden Way: all contributions are now freely available online simultaneously with the publication of the printed volume.
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