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Business HistoryCall for Papers for a Special IssueChanging Secondhand EconomiesFor a special issue of Business History on Secondhand Economies, we inviteoriginal research papers focusing on secondhand markets and economiesinvolving a variety of commodities ranging from used clothing, pre-ownedcars, and antiquities, to recycled ships and electronic waste. This specialissue aims to present the best of ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship onhistorical and contemporary processes involved in the flow of secondhandobjects and materials, their transformations and revaluations, and thepersons, policies, and markets involved with them. Recent concerns with thespeed and effects of commodity flows have brought fresh scholarly attentionto secondhand economies both in terms of their history and of theircontemporary significance for livelihoods and sustainability. Since the riseof global capitalism has markedly altered the functions of secondhandexchanges, content will be limited to the mid-nineteenth century to thepresent.The secondhand clothing trade, both domestic and transnational, has a longhistory explored mainly in fragments, reflecting historical limits ofmarginalized groups such the Jewish diaspora and connecting Europeancountries with the North American colonies, and Europe with Africa, Asia andAustralia. More recently, secondhand economies have attracted new attentionin the context of global economies of recycling. Studies of the internationalsecondhand clothing trade have explored the role of charitable organizationsin the West in the export of donated used clothing, revealing a gray areabetween thrift and profit, questioning the impact of imported secondhandclothing on domestic textile/clothing industries, and highlighting thecomplicated relationship between the production of fast fashion, and theoverconsumption of clothing in the West resulting in huge volumes of wornclothing in landfills. Recent concerns with sustainability in the West havespurred some to ‘rediscover’ practices of clothing re-use, re-purposing andre-cycling at the same time as major high-street retailers are establishingprograms to return used clothing to their stores for re-sale or recycling.Relatedly, clothing trends, particularly those connected to subcultures, havefor some time periodically embraced secondhand material use and systems ofexchange.Issue contributions might include longitudinal explorations of• specific sites of secondhand exchange• legislation and policies effecting secondhand economies• the relationship between new and used commerce• political uses of secondhand exchange and material• transnational/global costs and benefits of secondhand economies• cultural and social responses to secondhand materials and trade• the material culture of secondhand objects/goods• genealogies of secondhand acquisition• gendered and sexualized uses of secondhand commerce and goods• secondhand fashions and trends/subcultures• business and labor histories of secondhand economies• theories of informal economies centered on used goodsSUBMISSION DETAILSArticles should be based on original research and/or innovative analysis andshould not be under consideration by another journal. All articles should besubmitted by December 1 2016 via ScholarOne using the URL link listed below,clearly indicating that they are for the Special Issue on Changing SecondhandEconomies. All the articles will be peer reviewed and, therefore, some may berejected. Authors should ensure that their manuscripts fully comply with theformatting regulations of Business History.https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fbshGUEST EDITORSKaren Tranberg Hansen, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology,Northwestern University; Jennifer Le Zotte, Lecturer, Department of History,University of Nevada, Reno.Jennifer Le Zotte's work focuses on 19th- and 20th-century United Stateshistory, especially capitalism, material culture and dress, and gender andsexuality. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2013,currently teaches at the University of Nevada in Reno, and contributesarticles on dress and material culture tosmithsonian.com&#60;http://smithsonian.com/&#62;. Her book, From Goodwill to Grunge:A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies, is forthcoming onUniversity of North Carolina Press, Spring 2017. Other publications include“‘Not Charity, But a Chance’: Philanthropic Capitalism and the Rise ofAmerican Thrift Stores,” New England Quarterly 86:2 (Spring 2013): 169-195;and “’Be Odd’: The Contradictory Use of Dress in the Gilded Age SalvationArmy,” Winterthur Portfolio, 47:4 (Winter 2013): 245-265.Karen Tranberg Hansen’s work concerns urban economic livelihoods in Africawith particular focus on Zambia, the informal economy, consumption, dress andfashion, and gender and youth. She recently retired from the Department ofAnthropology at Northwestern University. Her publications related to thisproposal include Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia(Chicago 2000), and the co-edited anthologies African Dress: Fashion,Agency, Performance (Bloomsbury 2013), Reconsidering Informality:Perspectives from Urban Africa (Nordic Africa Institute 2004), and StreetEconomies in the Urban Global South (SAR Press 2013). Among her numerousjournal articles and book chapters are “The World in Dress: AnthropologicalPerspectives on Clothing, Fashion, and Culture,” Annual Review ofAnthropology 33 (2004): 369-392.