The changing representations emerged from the public and private sectors, as well as from civil society more broadly. These new representations occasionally appeared after a specific event or crisis resulted in a formal investigation a royal commission, task force or study group into the nature, or changes in the nature, of region and community. All these processes of imagining and re-imagining a region have led to reassessments not only of external economic and political relations, but also of ethnicity, race, gender, class and sexuality. A particularly fertile period of renovation emerged from postwar attempts at reconstructing the regional political economy, coincident with Newfoundland s entry into Confederation. The process of construction and renovation of an imagined Atlantic region throughout its history provides the broad focal point of this call for papers.
Presentations regarding all time periods and all parts of the region are welcome.